10 Footballers Who Returned To Their Former Clubs For Inflated Prices

4. Jermain Defoe - Tottenham

Jermain Defoe travelled around England playing for six different English clubs before making the biggest journey of his career by joining MLS side Toronto FC this month. Always keen to stay on the south coast, Defoe played for Bournemouth and twice for Portsmouth in between two stints at Tottenham Hotspur. The first of those stints saw Spurs pay out £7 million for his services in 2004, and Defoe scored 43 goals in 139 appearances for the north London club. He left for Pompey four years later, first on loan and then permanently in 2008, for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £6 million. He would last just one season at Fratton Park however until Tottenham agreed to pay £15 million to buy him back again, more than double for what they initially sold him for.