FORMER Wanderers striker Matt Jansen is looking to relaunch his career more than two years after leaving the Reebok.

The 31-year-old has not played competitive football since being released from a short-term contract in May, 2006, after just six appearances for the Whites.

After leaving Bolton, he was invited back by Sam Allardyce to train with the club in order to find another club.

But not “The hunger is there which was missing,” said the former England Under-21 international.

“I fell out of love with the game because things were not going my way. I needed time away from it and I thought that was it.

“I was hanging up my boots and didn’t want to play the game ever again.

“But after two-and-a-half years I have got the hunger back and now I have got itchy feet.

“I can’t just sit about doing nothing. All I know is football and I decided to give it another crack.”

Once billed as one of English football’s brightest prospects, Jansen’s career nose-dived following a motorcycle accident in Rome six years ago. Despite several attempted comebacks, he was never again able to gain regular first team football.

As well as Wanderers, he trained with former clubs Blackburn Rovers and Carlisle United before a trial in the US Major League with New York Red Bulls.