Ex- Bluebirds Fowler on the move

Former Cardiff City player Robbie Fowler is on the move again in his twilight of his playing career he must have ants in his pants he is one of a host of players to have signed up for a new Indian football league.

After his stint with the Bluebirds he moved on for a short swansong in the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers. He then surfaced in Queensland Australia playing for North Queensland Fury in the A-League as their marquee player.

'The marquee system was designed to enable clubs to attract well-known, skillful and exciting players without threatening the financial viability of clubs and the League.'

The following season he popped up in Perth where he gave a season to Perth Glory helping them to a lowly tenth in the League.

Those itchy pants soon seen him jump out of Australia turning down along the way some coaching offer in the UK and playing offers from the Mid-East to head for Thailand.

He joined Muangthong United in July 2011 signing a one-year contract ending up as acting Head Coach on the sacking of United’s Portuguese boss Henrique Calisto.

The Indian backers of this new competition are hoping replicate the success of cricket's Indian Premier League with football.

Tournament kicks off on February 25 and lasts six weeks with six teams, each team will comprise of 30 players with the number of overseas players not exceeding four. Each franchise will have to pick six players from their own catchment area and the same number from the Under-21 category. That leaves every franchise in the hunt for 14 players from the all over the country. Each team will have the right to bid for one icon player, who will be within the four overseas.

Each team will have a USD 2.5 million as maximum spending budget.

"We have signed seven icon players for the auction and each of the six teams will have one such player with a $600,000 salary cap," said Bhaswar Goswami, the executive director of Celebrity Management Group.

The icon players plus six coaches from around the world will be auctioned off in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata with the six teams starting the bidding on January 22. Other players involved along with Fowler are former Arsenal Robert Pires Portuguese midfielder Maniche, the former Argentina international Juan Pablo Sorín, the former Spain striker Fernando Morientes and the Argentinian Hernán Crespo. More are expected over the next week or some until the quote is full.

Pires told L'Equipe.

"I am proud to be the first Frenchman to go and play there. And eight weeks is nothing.

" Pires said he would at least be paid €395,000 [£326,000] for seven weeks.

"If my [club] president likes me, it could be €790,000 [£652,000].

"It is a lot of money. I'm not going to complain about that am I? However, I'm not going there as a tourist."

It's a new adventure Celebrity Management Group hope to add other franchises over the next few season and has the league grows the season will to. The league is modelled on Major League and looking to the further they hope the formation of the league will help with the dismal Fifa's rankings of the international team at 162 place.