Convicted rapist Ched Evans has been offered to a number of lower-league clubs as he bids to resume his footballing career after his release from prison, sources told ESPN FC.
A League Two side told ESPN FC they had received an unsolicited approach from Evans' representatives, which they rejected without entering into talks, as he looks for a new club.
And the Tranmere chairman, Mark Palios, revealed recently that he had turned down an approach from Evans' associates, saying that hiring the striker would "clearly have alienated a significant number of supporters."
League One Oldham were forced to deny that they planned to invite Evans to train with them or offer him a contract.
Evans' former club Sheffield United came in for heavy criticism when they allowed the Wales international to train with them after he left prison in October.
Television presenter Charlie Webster and pop star Paul Heaton both stood down as patrons in protest while the Olympic gold medal-winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill said she would want her name removed from a stand at Bramall Lane if Evans represented the League One club again and shirt sponsors DBL Logistics threatened to end their relationship with the Blades.
Sheffield United subsequently retracted their offer to allow Evans to train with them and his search for a club has continued.
Evans, 25, was convicted in April 2012 of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel near Rhyl, Wales in May 2011. He was sentenced to five years in prison but served only two-and-a-half and continues to protest his innocence while he is taking a review against his conviction to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
The former Manchester City player, who has won 13 caps for Wales, scored 35 goals in 42 games for Sheffield United in 2011-12, his last season of professional football.