Leeds have signed El Hadji Diouf on a non-contract basis despite manager Neil Warnock comparing the striker to a ‘sewer rat’ just last year.
The 31-year-old Senegal international trained with the club this week and his signing was confirmed ahead of Saturday's Capital One Cup clash with Shrewsbury at Elland Road.
Warnock was enraged in January 2011 when, as Queens Park Rangers manager, he claimed that Diouf abused Jamie Mackie as he lay on the pitch with a broken leg during an FA Cup clash with Blackburn.
Warnock said after the game: “The lads were furious with El-Hadji Diouf; he (Mackie) had broken his leg and he is calling him all sorts on the pitch.
“There was no need to put the finger up and call him a disgrace and even the Blackburn people were embarrassed.
“I can't abide people like that, I don't know why he wants to take on the world every week.
“For many years I have thought he (Diouf) was the gutter type - I was going to call him a sewer rat but that might be insulting to sewer rats.
“I think he is the lowest of the low and I can't see him being at Blackburn much longer because I can't see Steve Kean putting up with someone like that in the dressing room when he is trying to form a new image for Blackburn.
“I think he will be the first to go and good riddance - I hope he goes abroad because I won't miss watching him. He is a nasty little person.'
Diouf replied: “Who is Warnock? He's nothing to me. He's not Alex Ferguson, he's not Arsene Wenger, he's not Sam Allardyce or an important manager. I know he doesn't like me, but it's the same for me too - I don't like him.”
The controversial player has made over 300 appearances in English football, after starting his career in France. He spent nine years in the Premier League with Liverpool, Bolton, Sunderland, and Blackburn.
He also had a loan spell with Rangers before joining Doncaster in the Championship last season.
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Diouf, who has twice been named African Footballer of the Year, made 23 appearances for Doncaster, but could not prevent the Yorkshire side from being relegated from the Championship.
