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#10 David Bentley
Once he was hailed as the solution to the creative problems of the English national team, today he is nothing more than just another typically over-hyped English mid-fielder; some would say even that would be too big a compliment for him.
When Arsene Wenger handed Bentley his first start for Arsenal at the tender age of 16, many things were expected of him. He first showed a glimpse of what he was capable of when he chipped the then Middlesbrough keeper Mark Schwarzer from outside the box to score his first goal for the club.
Due to the huge size of the Arsenal squad at that time, he was loaned first to Norwich City and later to Blackburn Rovers, where he later joined on a permanent deal. After his permanent transfer to Blackburn, David scored a hat-trick on his league debut against Manchester United.
When manager Mark Hughes left for Manchester City in 2008, David Bentley also demanded a move to a bigger club, and was sold to Arsenal's arch-rivals, Tottenham Hotspur for a reported £15 million.
He scored his first league goal for Tottenham against his boy-hood club Arsenal, scoring a 43-yard dipping volley. This led the British mathematician Tony Mann to ask Marcus Du Sautoy to name a Symmetry group in honour of David Bentley; the group is labelled Set [C[1], C[2], C[3], C[4]]=[40, 13, 4, 4], with the final two digits corresponding to the result of the match.
Bentley would then suffer a huge dip in form, and with the rise to prominence of Aaron Lenon, he was forced to spend most of his time on the bench. Loan spells to West Ham United, Birmingham City and FC Rostov followedm but nothing came out of those moves.
He then moved on a loan back to the club where his rise began, Blackburn Rovers, but even that did not help the 29-year-old regain his lost form.
He was released on 7th of June 2013 by Tottenham Hotspur and has been unemployed ever since.
