French striker Nicolas Anelka is having a medical at West Brom.
The 34-year-old, who has already played in the Premier
League for five different teams, spent the latter half of last season
at Juventus after leaving Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua.
Anelka won Premier League titles with Arsenal and Chelsea and the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2000.
Anelka's Premier League clubs
- Arsenal (1997-99): Played 74, Goals 28
- Liverpool (2001-02): P15, G5
- Man City (2002-05): P101, G46
- Bolton (2006-08): P58, G23
- Chelsea (2008-12): P146, G59
He has scored more than 100 league goals in England and won the Golden Boot in 2008-09 while at Chelsea.
Should the deal go through, he would be West Brom's first signing of the summer.
Anelka began his career at Paris St-Germain before moving to Arsenal in 1997, helping Arsene Wenger's side win a league and FA Cup Double in 1997-98.
But after a protracted transfer saga, he joined Real Madrid in 1999 for a reported £23.5m.
Despite enjoying European success, he did not settle at the Bernabeu and returned to PSG in 2000 before being loaned to Liverpool for the 2001-02 season.
A £13m transfer to Manchester City followed in 2002 but three years later he was on the move once more, with Turkish club Fenerbahce his next destination.
He returned to England to sign for Bolton for a club record £8m fee in August 2006 before Chelsea paid £15m for him in January 2008.
There he formed an effective forward partnership with Ivory Coast international Didier Drogba and helped the Blues win the Premier League, in 2009-10, and two FA Cups.
Anelka, who has won 69 caps for France, left Stamford Bridge to join Shanghai Shenhua in January 2012, returning to Europe to sign a short-term deal with Juventus earlier this year
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