FORMER Premier League star Steven Caulker has signed for his 17th club aged 33.
The ex-Liverpool and Spurs defender has joined Icelandic top-flight side Stjarnan on a one-and-a-half year deal.
Caulker leaves Turkish second-division side Ankara Keciorengucu after joining last summer on a one-year deal, after
The former international can officially suit up for Stjarnan when the second transfer window opens on July 17.
The Spurs youth product played his first and only international match for in 2012, before switching through his paternal grandfather.
Reports in Iceland called his move “one of the biggest transfers in the history of Icelandic football“.
Caulker made a name for himself in the Premier League where he racked up 123 appearances for a raft of different outfits.
Stjarnan, who currently sit fourth in the Besta deild league, announced Caulker’s signing with a dramatic slowly revealing video.
The clip shows a plane landing in , with a masked player walking through the airport before revealing his face after opening a locker in a changing room covered in smoke.
Before playing in Turkey for a year, Caulker was a player-manager at Spanish fifth-division side Malaga City in 2024.
Caulker last played in the UK for Wigan when they were in the in 2023.
His career kicked off in 2009 when he came through the ranks at Tottenham.
He left Spurs in 2013 after a flurry of loan spells and made the permanent move to Cardiff City where he spent one season before moving back to London withQPR and later joining Southampton.
Caulker spent time on loan atlater in his career and even played under Jurgen Klopp – albeit for three minutes as an emergency striker.
He scored on his England debut in a 4-2 friendly defeat to Sweden in 2012.
Caulker also played for fellow Turkish sides Alanyaspor, Fenerbahce, Gaziantep and Fatih Karagumruk.
He previously battles with gambling and alcohol affected his football career.
Caulker told theBBC in 2020: “For me, the internal pain that my addictions caused me, I can’t really describe it, to tell you the truth.
“It was a terrible situation and it’s one which I have to take care of on a daily basis.
“I have been in recovery for a long time now but, thankfully, through the 12-step programme I’ve managed to have a long stint of sobriety. I’ve come here and been able to really relax and just sort of find myself again.”;
