Collymore: A chequered career Clubs

1989: Walsall - Cancelled his YTS contract.

1989: Wolves - Scored 18 goals in 20 games for their youth side. Failed to make first team.

1990: Crystal Palace - Fee £100,000. Four League starts, 16 substitute appearances, one goal.

1992: Southend - Fee £80,000. Scored 18 goals in 33 games.

1993: Nottingham Forest - Fee £2.2 million. In '94-95 season, he scores 25 goals, including 10 in last two months.

1995: Liverpool - Fee £8.5 million (British record). Makes 44 appearances in his first season at Anfield and scores 19 goals. In second season he makes 37 appearances and scores 16 goals.

1997: Aston Villa - Fee: £7 million deal.

1999: Fulham - Three-month loan.

2000: Leicester - Fee: Incentive-based pay-as-you-play deal.

The bad times

1995: Acquitted of assault charge for alleged fight outside nightclub.

1996: Collymore commutes from his West Midlands home to Merseyside, and finds competition for his first team place from Czech Republic striker Patrik Berger. Fined £20,000 for not attending training, but Liverpool manager Roy Evans says Collymore will be staying even though he fails to play a reserve team fixture.

1997: Sent off and given a three-match ban after exchanging blows with Bolton defender Andy Todd.

1998: Accuses Liverpool's Steve Harkness of racist abuse during and after Villa's 2-1 home victory. PFA forced to step in as neither player backs down. Beats up girlfriend, television presenter Ulrika Jonsson, in Paris bar.

1999: Collymore announces that he is seeking counselling for troubles in his private life, and spends two weeks in a clinic to undergo treatment for depression.

2000: Leicester sign Collymore on an incentive-based pay-as-you-play deal. Leicester are thrown out of their La Manga training base after Collymore is accused of letting off a fire extinguisher in a bar.