Middlesbrough are in talks with free agent Danny Ings, talkSPORT understands.
The 32-year-old is with no membership after leaving West Ham on the finish of final season.
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He may now be set to make a return to the Championship for the primary time in 11 years.
Ings has not performed within the second tier since successful promotion with Burnley within the 2013/14 season.
That marketing campaign noticed the ahead rating 21 objectives in 40 league appearances for the Clarets.
He has since starred within the Premier League for the Clarets in addition to Southampton, West Ham, Aston Villa and Liverpool.
Throughout these spells, Ings has scored 72 objectives in 240 Premier League matches.
Nevertheless, the ex-England striker may now hyperlink up with a former opponent on the Riverside Stadium.
Boro are managed by former Welsh worldwide Rob Edwards, who changed Michael Carrick earlier this summer time.
Edwards has penned a three-year cope with the membership by means of till 2028.
It’s his first managerial position since being sacked by Luton again in January.
As a participant, Edwards confronted Ings as soon as in the course of the 2011/12 Championship marketing campaign while enjoying for Barnsley.
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On that day, Burnley ran out 2-0 winners at Turf Moor, with Ings coming off the bench for his Burnley debut.
He performed the ultimate eight minutes of the match in his first look following a transfer from Bournemouth.
Greater than a decade later, the pair may now be set to work collectively.
Edwards has but so as to add to his Boro squad since his appointment, with Ings rising as a candidate to change into his first signing.
Ings had beforehand been linked with a transfer to fellow Championship aspect Wrexham forward of their return to the division.
The Crimson Dragons had been understood to be eyeing each Ings and his former Southampton team-mate Stuart Armstrong.
Phil Parkinson’s aspect are set to embark on their first second tier marketing campaign for 43 years following three successive promotions.
In the meantime, Armstrong is a free agent after leaving Sheffield Wednesday on the finish of June.