Player Profile

N'Gog was snapped up by Benítez for a relatively cheap fee from Paris St Germain where he made 24 appearances and scored three goals. Although he wasn't often on the scoresheet it could be attributed to that he played on the wing or came on as a substitute. N'Gog made five starts in his debut season at Liverpool and appeared 14 times as a substitute, earning more chances than might have been expected. N'Gog scored three times, his debut goal coming against PSV in the Champions League and adding two goals in the Premier League against Sunderland and Blackburn. N'Gog was often given the unenviable and pretty much impossible task of replacing Fernando Torres when the Spaniard was unavailable in the 2009/10 season. Despite his limitations, N'Gog found the net eight times during a difficult season for the club; five in the Premier League, the winner in the League Cup at Leeds plus two in Europe against Debrecen and Lille. He was also involved in one of the season's most controversial incidents when, according to Birmingham's Lee Carsley amongst others, he dived to win a penalty in the Anfield League game. This assured him of a very hot welcome in the return match at St. Andrews four months later when he came on as a second-half substitute for Torres.

The young Frenchman celebrated his twenty-second birthday shortly before the end of the 2010/11 season, in which he made no less than 38 first-team matches, twenty from the start and eighteen as a substitute. But N'Gog only started two matches after Kenny Dalglish took over from Roy Hodgson, both Europa League matches against Sparta Prague. Five of N'Gog's eight goals that campaign came in Europe. On the final day of the 2011 summer transfer-window, six games short of a century for Liverpool, N'Gog moved to Bolton Wanderers for £4 million, signing a three-year deal at the Reebok. N'Gog appeared in 33 Premier League matches and six domestic cup-ties, but Bolton were relegated at the end of the 2011/12 season in which the striker scored only four times.

2012/13 was N'Gog's most productive season yet in English football. He played in thirty-one of Bolton's forty-six matches in The Championship and scored eight goals. Wanderers just missed out on a play-off position. Failing to win their final match against Blackpool cost them a place in the top six. Towards the end of the January 2014 transfer-window N'Gog moved back to the Premier League with Swansea City in a deal that would last until the end of the 2013/14 season, the point at which his Bolton contract was due to expire. He made just three Premier League appearances for Swansea before the end of the season, all as a substitute. N'Gog signed a two-year deal with French league 1 club, Reims, on 1 September 2014 and scored seven goals in 27 appearances in his first season, then three from sixteen in his second. After his contract expired in the summer of 2016 he joined Greek side Panionios where eleven of his thirteen league appearances were as a substitute. He left as a free agent in the summer of 2017 but a cruciate ligament injury meant he didn't find a new club until January 2018, when he joined former manager Owen Coyle at Ross County in Scotland. After one goal in ten games as County were relegated, N'Gog was again a free agent and signed for Hungarian side Honved. Although not a first choice starter (15 of his 31 appearances were from the bench) he ended the season with a respectable return of twelve goals in all competitions. N'Gog joined FC Žalgiris in Lithuania in February 2020, making just two appearances there before retiring in the summer.