Premier League cult hero, 37, lands first job with Man City while still playing for Man Utd fans’ protest club

PREMIER LEAGUE cult leader Adam Le Fondre has landed a occupation moving for Manchester City - portion inactive playing for Manchester United's protestation club.

The erstwhile top-flight prima earned 34 appearances during his 1 play successful the Prem.

And helium enjoyed a superb instrumentality of 12 goals and an assistance successful that 2012-13 run - including strikes against Chelsea and United.

The striker adjacent claimed a Player of the Month grant for his efforts for Reading.

But aft being released by Hibernian successful the summer, Le Fondre is lacing up his boots for FC United of Manchester successful non-league.

However, helium has besides enactment pen to insubstantial connected a caller relation with the City Football Group.

The seasoned forward, 37, was appointed arsenic a video scout for the company - which owns 13 clubs crossed the satellite including Manchester City, Girona, New York City and

And it volition beryllium Le Fondre's task to assistance unearth immoderate stars of the future.

Speaking to the Reading Chronicle earlier the occupation was officially confirmed, helium said: "I'm not deluded, I recognize I won’t play forever.

“That’s wherefore I’m making plans for my post-football career.

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“I person a occupation lined up, acceptable to modulation into a caller vocation due to the fact that determination are inactive 30 to 40 years up of me, if not more.

"I’m hopeful that I’ll soon commencement a scouting relation with the City Group, focusing connected emerging talent, which is thing that excites me.

“My ambition is to yet scope a Head of Recruitment role, but I cognize it’s indispensable to gain that position.

"I’m afloat prepared to ascent the ladder and larn arsenic I go, ensuring that by the clip I retire, I’ll beryllium acceptable for the adjacent chapter.”

Le Fondre made his sanction successful League Two earlier helping occurrence Reading into the Premier League wherever helium enjoyed a phenomenal grounds of a extremity each 124.5 minutes - contempt the Royals' relegation.

He near Reading successful 2014 for Cardiff and had loans astatine Bolton, Wolves and Wigan earlier joining the Trotters permanently successful 2017.

The guardant past 5 seasons with Sydney FC successful Australia - including a one-year indebtedness with India's Mumbai City - and past a play astatine Hibs.

However, his clip successful Scotland ended connected bitter terms arsenic helium expressed helium was "disappointed however definite radical treated me" amid claims helium was blanked by nine chiefs.

But helium headed to seventh-tier FC United of Manchester - the nine acceptable up arsenic an anti-Glazer question successful 2005 - to support his fittingness levels.