Shaun Goater, the former Manchester City striker, is sharing his goalscoring secrets with the forwards at Sky Bet League One side Doncaster Rovers.

Goater, who returned to England in 2013 to seek coaching opportunities, has been a part-time coach at Rovers since September after being drafted in by Paul Dickov, his former team-mate and the club’s manager.

The 44-year-old is believed to be working on a voluntary basis once a week, having previously helped the strikers at St Johnstone, of the Scottish Premier League, who are coached by another of his former City team-mates, Tommy Wright.

Goater, who has also spent time shadowing at City’s academy, is hoping to make a move into management and applied for vacant positions at League Two sides Bury and Scunthorpe United last season.

In a recent interview with The Star newspaper, Dickov said that he believed his forwards could learn plenty from his former strike partner, who plundered 84 goals in 184 games for City.

“What I’ve said to all the attacking players is don’t just watch what [Goater] does on the training ground because if you look at his career from where he started to where he finished, it’s inspirational,” Dickov said.

“The sort of things he had to go through like the culture shock of going from Bermuda to Manchester United and then to Rotherham.

“People look at The Goat and say he’s probably one of the biggest legends in City’s history and rightly so.

“But it wasn’t always that way. He’s someone that’s had to work, fight and scrap his way to where he got to.

“Our lads can take a lot just by sitting down and having a chat with him.”

Dickov, whose team are seventeenth in the table, believes that Goater has added a new voice to the camp.

“I’m a big believer that rather than it being me battering on at them all the time about hitting the target and all the technical stuff, sometimes it’s refreshing to have someone different,” Dickov said.

“There’s no one better than The Goat for that, someone who has score more than 200 goals in his career.

“If you sit down and listen to The Goat about things that have happened throughout his career, you can’t help but take notice.

“I think someone of his status for the players we’ve got and the ages we’ve got, they can only learn from him. He’s there for them if they need him.”

Goater, who scored 32 goals in 36 games for Bermuda, stepped down as North Village coach in January, 2013. He led the Premier Division side, his boyhood club, to seven trophies during his tenure, including the league title, the Friendship Trophy three times, two Dudley Eve Trophy titles and a Charity Cup.

In the summer of 2012, he turned down an offer from the Bermuda Football Association to become the coach of the national team on a temporary basis.