Here we are again, talking about Jefferson Montero.
The winger has been a Swansea City player since the summer of 2014. That is a long time, especially when so many stars have come and gone in the meantime.
Montero is difficult player to describe. He is 'difficult'. Not in terms of attitude or being a bad egg - indeed, quite the opposite. He appears to be a great bloke, always laughing, always smiling.
No. He is difficult to play against, difficult to chase, difficult to mark. But more pertinently, difficult to keep fit.
Whichever way you perceive him - a genius who is injury prone or an injury-prone genius - each side of the coin doesn't give you the full picture.
A famous philosopher once wrote "life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it" and the fairground attraction could easily describe both Montero's season and career.
When he left on loan for West Brom on January 31 it was greeted with little surprise and a shrug of the collective shoulders in SA1. Swansea fans are numb to deadline day disappointment these days.
He had, after all, been sidelined through injury for most of the opening half of the campaign. In other news, water is wet.
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So how has he done with the Championship play-off contenders?
Let's see. *Checks notes* - the Ecuadorian has played a total of 119 minutes for the Baggies since joining them.
Apart from a glorious start to his stint at The Hawthorns - scoring after five three minutes - that rollercoaster we mentioned earlier has been hurtling downwards. It is now at a complete standstill.
He was last seen on the Baggies bench in early March against Ipswich. He has yet to make a matchday squad since.
It seems, though, that injury hasn't entirely been his problem this time; a change of manager hasn't helped and the new man in caretaker charge - Jimmy Shan - doesn't seem to fancy him. Shan has preferred other widemen to Montero and he has been proved right to an extent, with the Baggies securing a top-six spot.
Another false dawn for a player once described as Real Madrid quality on his day. No-one will feel the pain of disappointment more than Montero himself.
But how has he gone down with the natives in the West Midlands?
At the start of his loan spell WalesOnline spoke to Paul Suart at BirminghamLive to see how Montero was faring. This is what Paul said at the time: "It's been very off and on for him here. He's been mainly used as an impact man from the bench, which is no different to his role at Swansea really. He hasn't really been able to kick on since then, which is a shame. West Brom do have a number of options out wide. It will be interesting to see what Darren Moore's departure means for him in the final few matches and see what the new man thinks of him."
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And what now? That view is unlikely to have changed. "We definitely need to see more of him, for any manager to be convinced or persuaded to sign him permanently," Paul added when we spoke last month.
On the evidence, Montero's chances of signing for West Brom permanently are slim to none. Set the sat-nav for South Wales, Jeff.
He has had more comebacks than Lazarus at Swansea but you wonder whether this summer might be the time for them to bite the bullet with the 29-year-old.
He has a year to go on his current deal and is likely to be one of the higher earners at the club. The club's What Swansea City's accounts actually mean as scale of Premier League failings laid bare of relegation and with a £30million hole to fill, according to chief operating officer Chris Pearlman, player exits will no doubt be in order. Not only will transfer fees plug the chasm, but wages will be off the books too.
On the flipside, Graham Potter is a huge fan of him, remarking earlier this season that he has never encountered a player like him .
"His one-off actions can be incredible. We see it every day in training. He’s a unique player, I probably haven’t experienced anybody quite like him before which is really interesting for a coach to work with," said Potter in January.
Then he left.
It was the 43-year-old who brought him in from the cold during pre-season, and early on in the campaign Montero repaid his manager's faith with a string of game-changing cameos.
But as the nights drew in, Montero's hamstrings tightened and a number of niggling injuries followed. For all his likability and immediate impact, you just can't rely on him.
Swansea will probably lose Daniel James this summer, another devastating winger who terrorises his opposing number. But arguably James has already achieved more in a season than Montero has in five years in Landore.
Is there an argument that losing James means retaining Montero is even more important? It is a difficult case to make.
After all, Montero is a difficult player.
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