German striker has settled quickly into Lancashire life and is looking forward to a reunion with Mesut Özil when his side face Arsenal in the FA CupBurnley’s Padiham training ground in the pouring rain is not fairly the glamorous image of English football exported around the world,but neither is Rouwen Hennings one for complaining. “I am used to the weather already,” he says matter-of-factly. “It is very similar to Hamburg.”After a career spent mostly with clubs in the German moment division the 28-year-old striker jumped at the chance to arrive to England, or even though the offer came from a Championship club. He finished last season with Karlsruhe as leading scorer in Bundesliga 2 and was rumoured to be attracting attention from top-flight clubs such as Hamburg and Werder Bremen,but rumours were all he was left with.
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Source: theguardian.com