Victor Wanyama sealed a shock back to British football – at the Scottish Championship Side Dunfermline Athletic.
The 33-year-old had spent the last five seasons in Major League Soccer after coming to CF Montreal from Tottenham Hotspur in 2020.
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After Canada left after the 2024 campaign in January, the Kenya international was looking for his next adventure.
His short time as a free agent ended, where he reunited himself with ex-boss Neil Lennon, with the couple working together together at Celtic.
Lennon was appointed to the person responsible for the Scottish second -class team on Tuesday until the end of the season.
And the former Bolton Manager immediately completed his first signing in Wanyama.
Confirmation of the news on Wednesday evening, according to a club declaration, was: “DAFC is pleased to announce the signing of the Kenyan international Victor Wanyama until the end of the season with the international approval.”
The fans hope for some inspiration from the Champions League finalist in 2019, while Dunfermline bears ninth place in the table and threatens the descent.
The way it looks, DunferMline is six points ahead of the Bottom Club Airdrieonians and is to take part in the play-offs of the championship.
Although you have a game about eighth place in Hamilton who have two points ahead of them.
For Lennon he knows all too well the quality that Wanyama has, which he trained in Glasgow for two years.
Wanyama played between 2011 and 2013 under Lennon near Celtic, where he collected successive league titles and the Scottish Cup.
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In 91 games in all competitions for the Hoops, he scored 13 goals – including the famous 2-1 victory against Barcelona in 2012.
His dazzling displays brought him a change of £ 12.5 million to Southampton – a record sale at the time for a Scottish side.
Wanyama and Lennon now hope that their brilliant relationship will continue at DunferMline.
After being registered in time, he was able to make his debut against Ayr United on Saturday.
Should he be reunited this weekend with the ex-Celtic teammate Scott Brown, the head coach of Ayr.
Brown recently called Wanyama out of his career in his XI All-Time XI from teammates.
He said about the midfielder: “In the first few days in training, nobody wanted to fight the big man.
“There were arms everywhere – he stormed everyone out of the street.”