Doncaster sign controversial striker El Hadji Diouf

Published on Tuesday 1 November 2011 00:46

DONCASTER have completed the signing of former Rangers forward El Hadji Diouf on a three-month contract.

The 30-year-old Senegal international has been without a club since he was released by Blackburn at the end of last season.

A two-time African Footballer of the Year, Diouf was a £10million arrival at Liverpool in 2002 after playing a starring role in Senegal’s successful World Cup campaign that summer.

Often a controversial figure during his time in British football, Diouf has also played for Bolton and Sunderland in the Barclays Premier League and helped Rangers to the Clydesdale Bank Premier League title during a loan spell north of the border last term.

Diouf’s controversial history, which runs from spitting incidents and dressing room bust-ups to drink-driving, is sure to follow the player wherever he goes, but he insists he is ready for the challenge of helping Doncaster away from their position in the Championship relegation zone.

“I love a challenge,” he said on Sky Sports News. “I could go to the Middle East or somewhere but I wanted to come back to a big level like the Championship.

“I want to get myself fit and to try and help the team to not go down.

“Right now I am focused for doing my best for this football club and helping the team to grow.”

Earlier this month it was revealed Diouf’s representative Willie McKay had signed a two-year deal to act as transfer consultant for Doncaster, with the added brief of trimming the club’s wage bill.