West Ham have brought former striker Carlton Cole back to the club this week to train with the first-team squad.

He’s filmed above arriving for training at West Ham’s training facility today as he continues to work on his fitness.

Without a club since the expiry of his West Ham contract in June, Cole has been linked with moves to the MLS and Australia , as well as being reunited with Claudio Ranieri at Leicester – the man who gave him his professional debut at Chelsea.

West Ham famously brought Carlton Cole back to the club in October 2013 after releasing him earlier that year following a slew of injuries to their strikers, and he impressed on a short-term deal, and penned a new 18-month contract which expired earlier this summer.

Having failed to sign a new striker this summer, and a deal to bring in Javier Hernandez from Manchester United stalling, West Ham surely couldn’t sign the former England international for a third time?