FORMER Wanderers striker Ivan Klasnic longs for a “life without difficulty” as he waits for a third life-saving kidney transplant.

The 37-year-old, who was a hit with Wanderers fans during a three-year spell in the Premier League, gave a glimpse into his life on the transplant list in a documentary aired on German television this week.

Klasnic suffered renal failure in 2007, which led to a kidney transplant from his mother, but after the organ was rejected he had a second operation, this time using a kidney from his father.

The Croatian came to Bolton in 2009, initially on loan, and scored 20 goals in 77 appearances.

He achieved notoriety in October 2010 he appeared as a 77th minute substitute against Stoke City, scored the winning goal and was booked twice.

But he has been critically ill since September last year when his kidney failed again and has since been spending three days a week on dialysis at his local hospital in Hamburg, Germany.

“I thought I'd have a shorter life or something,” said the former striker on German TV station NDR. “I have to accept the fate of it is, go on dialysis, but maybe it’ll come and there’ll be a happy ending.

“And that would be that successful third transplantation and me no longer having to go on dialysis.

"The hardest part is that my mother lost a kidney, and I am grateful to my parents a lot."

Klasnic continues to play football once a week and is waiting for a donor but cannot accept an organ from a family member because his body has now formed antibodies which would mean a kidney would be too dangerous to transplant.

"I wish for the new kidney and life without difficulty," he added.