He was once a rare shining light in Liverpool's troubled start to the 2010/11 season with seven goals in his first nine matches but David N'Gog is now looking to relaunch his career in the Far East.
However, the 30-year-old isn't one of the big stars of European football being enticed to China for a lucrative last pay day.
Instead the French striker finds himself on trial at Ho Chi Minh City, runners-up last season in V.League 1, the top flight of Vietnamese football.
Viet Nam News – the country's national English language daily – reports that N'Gog, who turned out for Paris St Germain and Bolton Wanderers either side of his spell at Anfield is just one of several foreign players seeking a berth in the team for next season.
HCMC FC are competing in the AFC Champions League for the first time next season, but clubs who play in V.League 1, which is due to restart in February, are restricted to a total of three overseas players and one naturalised foreign-born Vietnamese player.
N'Gog, who netted 19 goals in 94 games for Liverpool , was something of a cult hero with many Reds fans during his time at Anfield.
Recruited as a teenager, then manager Rafa Benitez hailed the club's scouting staff on his arrival, saying: “They are finding players like N'Gog, players with quality who are not a high price.”
N'Gog's most recent club was Budapest Honved but he has been deemed surplus to requirements with the Hungarian outfit.
