My time on trial at Gillingham gave me a good insight into the team and helped me make my decision to sign.

I didn’t ever feel like a trialist and that’s fair play to the boys, they really welcomed me and I felt a part of the team from the start.

Also, the staff in games and training didn’t put that pressure on me, I just got to go and play my game and it felt right.

There were a few clubs in League 1 and League 2 who were also interested and we just wanted to make sure we were making the right decision.

I trained with Gillingham for a couple of weeks, initially joining up with them while they were away in Colchester, and it gave me a chance to really meet the boys and adapt to the team before putting pen to paper.

The manager here wants me to play high and central and stay in the box as much as possible and that’s one of the things I enjoyed while on trial at the club.

He has got that vision where he wants me to get goals and into the right positions as much as possible. If I can bring that into my game then I will definitely get goals.

We have got players with quality in the team that can put good balls in the box and as long as I am in there I can get on the end of some of them and put them into the back of the net.

You are always looking to get goals as a striker and I was able to do that in pre-season. I felt it was a good one and I am read to go.

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I didn’t get onto the pitch at Doncaster but I will try and work as hard as I can, to improve in training and try to do what the manager asks of me. I have got full belief in my ability and I am sure the manager knows what I can do and when the time is right I am sure he will put me in.

Last season at Colchester was one of ups and downs. We started well, we were in and around the League 2 play-offs all season, we had been second or third at one point, doing well, but the last part of the season we had a terrible run and kept losing games.

We won games towards the end but it wasn’t enough.

I was confident I would get a new club in the summer, I don’t get stressed and I’ve signed a one year deal here. I don’t think about the length of the contract though, I am just here and will give everything I have got every day, every week. However long I have got on my contract doesn’t matter, I will do my best every time.

I’ve been playing in England since the age of 16, when I moved to Sunderland.

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I grew up in Paris and had trials to get into the Clairefontaine academy, where all of the great French players have been. I got towards the final stages to get in, but unfortunately I didn’t make it.

Basically every single player in Paris will go onto those trials, thousands and thousands, and I was glad to have got as far as I did. There were five stages and some great players get picked, like Thierry Henry.

France is a great place for football, it is part of the culture, and I was growing up there watching the national team winning the World Cup and the European Cup.

I was a big fan of Zidane, that was my player, the one I loved, that’s why I support Real Madrid. I have supported them since the age of eight and when Zidane and Ronaldo played together, two of my idols. I have supported them since.

Sunderland was completely different but I was so excited to go there, I was 16, but there was never a doubt in my mind. I always wanted to play football and to go to England and that was an amazing opportunity. They welcomed me with open arms, the same as Gillingham, and I had an amazing time,

I was lucky to make my debut in the Premier League when I was 18. Paolo Di Canio was manager at the time and we were playing Aston Villa away and he put me on for the last 15. It was great, amazing.

I played a couple more times after that for the first team and had some great experiences. I had loans at Shrewsbury, Fleetwood and Hartlepool but after Sunderland I went to Eastleigh and had a good time there before signing for Wigan.

It was a big move for me but didn’t quite go as I wanted. The manager who signed me, Warren Joyce, got sacked soon after I signed and that got in between the plans. I have moved around a lot but I have had great

experiences everywhere, met some great people and learned a lot. I am now here and I am looking forward to this.

I just love football. If I wasn’t at Gillingham I would be playing football somewhere else.

I just love it so much, any level, training, games, whatever, I just want to be on the pitch.

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