Football Manager 2017: 20 Free Agents You Must Sign

Age: 32

Position: ST

Adebayor is something of a whipping boy these days: for some fans, he represents everything that's wrong with modern footballers - and particularly greed. But he is worth bringing in as a squad player even as a Premier League side. He has bags of experience after all and his stats aren't at all bad.

Potential Value: £110k

Again, he's not going to start a lot of games in the Premier League, but he will score a few when called upon (at a rate of about 30% games to goals ratio) and will rate pretty well on average. In the Championship, he'll score more, but whether you'd get him through a full season of regular starts remains to be seen.

Remarkably, he's also not all that expensive, despite his well-publicised fondness for bigger wage packets. Premier League sides will get him for less than £40k.