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League One strugglers Coventry are hoping that Yakubu’s appetite for goals is still as strong as ever.

Ten years ago Everton fans regularly chanted: “Feed the Yak and he will score.”

And Aiyegbeni Yakubu regularly responded.

A decade later, Coventry are hoping Yakubu can get the goals to fire the Sky Blues to League One survival.

Manager Russell Slade, who revealed on Friday that a player with a ‘big reputation’ was due to report to Coventry’s training ground on Monday, is understood to have invited the former Everton striker to the club - where he is set to undergo a fitness assessment with a view to offering him a short-term deal until the end of the season.

Sources close to the Nigerian international say the 34-year-old is looking to resurrect his playing career after returning to the UK from a year in the Turkish Super League with Kayserispor.

Yakubu played 60 minutes last summer for National League club Boreham Wood in a pre-season friendly against Reading, another of his former clubs.

He was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.

He last played professionally for Kayserispor in 2016.

Yakubu was an £11.25 million record Everton signing in 2007 – and scored an 21 goals (15 in the Premier League) in his first season at Goodison Park.

Following a ruptured Achilles tendon at Tottenham in November 2008 he failed to recapture his initial zip.

He scored six goals in 2009/10 and just one in his first 15 appearances of 2010/11 before being allowed to join Championship side Leicester on loan.

In August 2011 he joined Blackburn, but despite two goals on his debut against Arsenal he couldn’t save Rovers from relegation and he left Ewood Park and headed to the Chinese Super League with Guangzhou R&F in 2012 before a spell in Qatar.

He then returned to England and joined Reading on a free transfer in February 2015 but managed just one goal in 11 games with the Championship club.

He was released at the end of his short-term deal and headed off to Turkey for a year but has been without a club so far this season and is therefore available to sign on a free transfer.