Any football fan will agree in saying that no-one could have predicted that Ross McCormack would currently be playing alongside Usain Bolt in Australia - and yes you have read that correctly. 

The 32-year-old first made a name for himself at Leeds United where he soon became a fan favourite at Elland Road and proved to be a huge success for the club in a four-year spell with the club.

He was was club captain, and scored 58 goals in 158 appearances for the Whites.

McCormack decided to make the bold move away from Leeds in the summer of 2014 for a hefty fee of £11m to join Fulham.

Many fans thought that the Scotsman would struggle to justify that price tag, but he soon silenced those doubters, and formed a formidable strike partnership with Moussa Dembele, who has since moved on to bigger and better things away from Craven Cottage.

McCormack scored 42 goals in 100 appearances for Fulham in a hugely successful two-season-spell with the club.

So you may be wondering, how exactly his career has spiralled downwards, and how he has ended up playing in Australia alongside a former Olympic gold-medalist.

The striker then signed a four-year deal with Aston Villa for a fee of £12m and this is where his career started to take a turn for the worst.

McCormack has been restricted to just 24 appearances since he signed for the club in 2016. He had a number of fall-outs with former Villa manager Steve Bruce, which resulted in the striker being loaned out during the course of the season.

The former Leeds man has admitted himself that he doesn't see his future at Aston Villa progressing, so he is likely to move away from the club permanently in order to find regular first-team football.

This season McCormack joined Central Coast Mariners and has proved to be a success over in Australia, but he has formed an unlikely partnership with Usain Bolt who has been on trial at the club in recent weeks.

If the ageing striker hadn't had moved to Villa, he could still be a striker at the top of his game in the Championship.

His goalscoring record speaks for itself in the Championship, and if McCormack had stayed put at Fulham he could have fired them to promotion earlier than when they achieved it last season under Slavisa Jokanovic.

In all honesty, if McCormack had stayed with Leeds, and focused purely on progressing with them, then he would arguably still be a regular in the Leeds side to this very day and certainly wouldn't be partnering Usain Bolt up-front in Australia.

The striker's technical ability was one of the best in the Championship and he will know himself that he should have stuck around at one of his former clubs, as Aston Villa have frozen the forward out of their plans for the future.