West Brom already look like they’re going to be in trouble this season.

We’re two games into the new campaign and the Baggies have already shipped eight goals while only finding the net themselves twice, and if they are to make a real go at the Premier League, they will need to make a few more additions before the transfer deadline.

Fortunately, they’ve been linked to a new signing this week. Unfortunately, the name that is cropping up is Emmanuel Adebayor.

Before you google it yourself, he’s 36 years old now, and his last team was Olimpia in Paraguay.

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The Togo international is available on a free transfer after leaving his last club, and West Brom are apparently looking at the possibility of signing him.

Taking a punt on an ageing striker who used to be quality is a punt worth taking sometimes, Nwankwo Kanu was scoring FA Cup final winning goals when he was 32, Jermain Defoe hit 15 in the league for Sunderland as a 35-year-old, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still banging them in for AC Milan at the age of 38, even after a spell in MLS.

However, in Adebayor’s case, this has already been tried before, and it didn’t go well.

In January 2016, Alan Pardew thought that his Crystal Palace team needed some more firepower, so he looked towards Adebayor as his solution on a free transfer.

The former Spurs man came in and scored one goal in 12 league games, before being let go at the end of the campaign.

We’re four years on from that disaster, and despite failing to make an impact in the Paraguayan league in the past 12 months, the striker is still being linked with a move back to England.

Surely West Brom aren’t stupid enough to sign a player who looked past his sell-by date four years ago?