Dunfermline has signed Victor Wanyama until the end of the season.
The relocation sees the 33-year reunification with his former Celtic boss Neil Lennon, who took over it in East End Park last week while sending the club away from the relegation.
Wanyama played under Lennon in Parkhead, where he won successive league titles, plus impressed by Europe – scored in a famous Champions League win in Barcelona.
His form resulted in a move to Southampton for a then Scottish record compensation of around £ 12.5 million, and the Kenyan International played for Tottenham for a move to Montreal for four years.
He left the Canadian club in January and, after having passed a medical one on Wednesday, was back in Football for the first time since 2012.
Subject to international approval, Wanyama will make his debut on Saturday against Ayr United, who will be managed by his former Hoops captain Scott Brown.
Dunfermline is the second bottom of the table-zes points free from automatic relegation but two points behind Hamilton Accies while offering to leave the relegation play-off place with seven games to go.
Lennon enthusiastic about Dunfermline Challenge
Lennon says he was forced to take the Dunfermline job after long conversations with the owner and chairman of the Championship Club.
The former Celtic and Hibernian -Baas, who was most recently in the Dugout on the Romanian side Rapid Bucuresti last year, took the lead in East End Park until the end of the season.
He is the third permanent manager of Dunfermline, with James McPake fired in December and Michael Tidser was rejected earlier this month after only 60 days in the job.
Although the 53-year-old knows that he faces a real challenge to keep them in the second layer of Scottish football, he insists that it was an opportunity he could not reject.
“Last week we had many conversations between myself, the chairman and the owner. They made a very compelling argument to take on the job,” he said.
“There is an old saying of Sir Alex [Ferguson] Where you sometimes choose the owners instead of choosing the club.
“So I think we have a good one here. Further on he has really good ambitions for the future of the club.
“I wanted to coordinate myself with that.
“We have a lot of work to do, which is not going to happen immediately, but I have had a good reaction from the players in the last two days. I am happy with their attitude and application.
“It's great to be involved in football again. I know how competitive and attritation the championship can be.
“I know that we are not in the best form at the moment, so that is a challenge for myself to change the psychology of the club and the dressing room.”
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