Coventry City manager Aidy Boothroyd is set to try to bring former Wigan striker Marlon King to The Ricoh.
King was convicted of sexual assault and sent to prison for 18 months, but is due to be released before the start of the new season.
Boothroyd managed King while they were both at Watford, the period where King was at his best.
The 30 year old striker, who is also being tracked by QPR, could be seen as an ideal partner to recently returned striker Gary McSheffrey.
King is a free agent as he was sacked by Wigan following his conviction.
While Boothroyd managed King during his most productive time at Watford, King has had problems both on and off the pitch.
Apart from his 18 month prison sentence for sexual assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 2008, he has been sentenced to an eighteen month prison sentence for receiving stolen goods in 2002.
King also has convictions for a total 14 offences, dating from 1997. He has been fined and given driving bans, been sentenced to do community service. He has also received a rehabilitation order and orders to pay compensation on convictions including. His offences vary from theft from a person and from a car, criminal damage, and attempting to obtain property by deception, fraudulent use of vehicle licence document, driving without insurance, speeding, drink driving, a wounding incident while playing amateur football, and two cases involving assault of young women.
While on loan at Hull he was alleged to have head butted team mate Dean Windass, but the incident was dealt with internally and Windass later dismissed the incident as "a storm in a teacup".
King's loan spell at Hull ended in controversy when he reacted violently to the news he wouldn't be starting the game against Arsenal and was sent home.
Putting aside King's colourful personal life, he has 18 international caps for Jamaica and during his four year spell at Watford he scored 36 goals in 81 appearances, 21 of them in the promotion season of 2005/6. He missed much of the 2006/7 Premiership season out with injury. He returned after three weeks out with a knee injury only to break down almost immediately and he was sidelined for another six months.