Fewer than a quarter of players whose contracts ended this summer have found new clubs, BBC Sport has learned.

And top agent Barry Silkman said many players were in for "a big shock".
He added: "It's proving very difficult this summer. There's not much money out there at all.

"Lots of players are going to have to take what's there. There's no money about. When you look at Spurs, nobody has arrived. That tells you everything."

Silkman highlights Germany midfielder Hitzlsperger as an example.

The 29-year-old is without a club after his West Ham contract expired this summer.

Silkman, who works with Hitzlsperger's lawyer, claims the German was "offered a deal by Sunderland at the start of July, maybe a bit before that ... (but) his lawyer said 'I think we will get a better deal'.

"Now he will find a club, but nowhere near the terms Sunderland offered, not even within 30% or 35% of the wages they were offering."