Former Celtic, Chelsea and Preston North End forward Scott Sinclair has new club on short term deal

Sinclair left North End this summer when his contract expired and spent some time training with former club Chelsea, who he joined from Rovers at the age of 16.

The former England youth international and Great Britain Olympian was the top scorer at Deepdale in the 2020/21 season, fresh off the back off an iconic time at Celtic.

He gained hero status north of the border as he helped Brendan Rodgers’ side complete a ‘treble treble’ where they swept every domestic honour available three seasons in a row., he also swept the individual awards in 2017.

Sinclair has also played for Swansea City – winning promotion to the Premier League, again under Rodgers – Manchester City and Aston Villa acorss a successful career.

At Deepdale he played 85 times scoring 14 goals and is now back at the Memorial Stadium after successful talks with head coach Joey Barton. His current deal takes him until January where both parties will revisit and decide whether the 33-year-old will extend his stay at the club that he played five minutes for as a teenager before moving to Stamford Bridge.

Speaking to Rovers following the move, Sincalir said: "I'm delighted to back at the place where my career began. I've been training for a couple of weeks and The Quarters is certainly very different to where we trained when I was younger!

"I've always wanted to come back to the club to give back what they've given me at the start of my footballing journey."