8. Pascal Chimbonda
Tony Marshall/EMPICS SportPascal Chimbonda's downturn in luck since leaving Spurs has been one of the most dramatic in football. The French full-back joined the White Hart Lane club after being one of the surprise successes of the 2005-2006 Premier League season. He had joined Wigan Athletic from Bastia as a complete unknown, but had taken to the English top flight like a duck to water. He joined Spurs for £4.5 million in August of 2006 and spent two steady years at club. He did win the League Cup with the Lilywhites - starting in the 2-1 final victory over Chelsea - but moved to Sunderland in 2008, where he joined former Spurs team-mates Teemu Tainio and Steed Malbranque. After one season with the Black Cats, Harry Redknapp re-signed him along with fellow former Spurs players Jermain Defoe and Robbie Keane, but he played only five games for the club before being sold to Blackburn Rovers - a move that would see his career go South very abruptly. After a couple of seasons at Ewood Park, he joined Queens Park Rangers. He barely played at Loftus Road and ended up signing a short-term deal with Doncaster Rovers. Chimbonda couldn't even cement a first-team place at the Keepmoat Stadium and he was released - spending the entire 2012-2013 season as a free agent. So desperate was Chimbonda for football that he signed for Northern Premier League Division One South side Market Drayton Town on a short term deal. After failing to impress on a trial with Tranmere Rovers, he returned to Market Drayton and played for them for free before signing for Carlisle United in England's third tier. He spent a few months at Brunton Park, but was released earlier this year. He now finds himself without a club again and has recently announced that he would like to return to France in order to find a new club in his homeland. He is 35.