Richie Barker has strengthed the striking department by bringing in Lateef Elford-Alliyu on a youth loan until the end of the current season.

Lateef signed a new one-year deal, plus a further year's option in the West Brom's favour in summer 2011.

Last term the young forward made 14 starts and three sub appearances on loan at League One outfit Tranmere, scoring five times, before injury brought a premature end to his campaign.

'Pan', as is he is known to his team-mates, was in fine form during the 2009/10 season, firing 11 FA Premier Academy League goals in his third year with the club.

He also spent a short time on loan at Hereford where he made his league bow.

In May he joined Icelandic top-flight outfit Keflavik until mid-June.

He joined Albion as a 15-year-old and was catapulted into the limelight when he scored from the halfway line in a pre-season match against Stafford Rangers. He was then part of the first-team squad that travelled to Peterborough in the FA Cup in the 2007/08 season.

He figured twice for England in May 2009's Under-17s European Championships in Germany.

Lateef goes straight into the squad for Tuesday's game at MK Dons and will take squad number 28