Charlton forward Lyle Taylor is set to make a dramatic u-turn and play for the club again this season.
Taylor's contract with the Addicks is up at the end of the season and he initially stated earlier this month that he would take no further part in the club’s remaining nine games of the season.
However, the forward is now reportedly set to inform manager Lee Bowyer that he has changed his mind and is ready to play his part in his side’s fight for Championship survival.
According to The Sun, Taylor will now start personal training and could make the squad for that relegation six-pointer next weekend against Hull City.
Bowyer has confessed that Taylor is set for a "life-changing move" with Turkish giants Fenerbahce interested in the 30-year-old, who was a January target for a host of Championship clubs.
Taylor was very much on City's radar but Charlton's refusal to budge from their £3m valuation, despite his expiring contract, led the Robins to turn to Nahki Wells, while West Brom, Brentford and Nottingham Forest were also interested parties.
A report last week from Sky Sports declared that as many as 12 clubs remain keen on signing him on a free this summer, due to coronavirus shut down drastically affecting transfer budgets.
“Now, at the age that I am, should I get injured, there won’t be another opportunity,” he said when asked why he didn’t want to play again this season.
“Should I get seriously injured, I doubt there’d be an opportunity to play at a level I’m playing at now.
“I might be remembered as whatever they see fit; money-grabbing, a letdown, never been a club legend because he left us in the lurch kind of thing.
"But I’d like to think that maybe at some point people will maybe say, ‘Do you know what, we don’t like it but we understand why he’s done it’ and, maybe forgiveness or that kind of thing is too strong a word, but maybe acceptance that this hasn’t been easy and isn’t going to be easy for me.”
Taylor is Charlton's top scorer this season with 11 goals in 17 league starts as the Addicks return to action in a crunch game against fellow strugglers Hull next weekend, who have gone 11 games without victory.
