Former Arsenal football club star, Emmanuel Eboue, is now living in abject poverty after a bitter divorce with his wife.

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Eboue, now 34, hides from cops and bailiffs after being ordered by a judge to transfer his remaining Enfield home to his wife.

He made the staggering revelation about his situation in an interview with UK-based Daily Mirror.

Aside losing all his properties to his wife, he has faced a heartbreaking estrangement from his three kids--daughters Clara, 14, and Maeva, 12, and son Mathis, nine-- who he has not seen since June.

As Christmas approaches, Eboue will not be able to spend time with his own children.

That, he said: "It hurts me a lot. They used to call me. But now, no contact. It pains me to be alone without them.”

He now sleeps on a mattress in a friend's [Yasmin Razak] bunker, uses public transport and washes his own cloths.

Of Yasmin, he said: "I call her house The Bunker. I can hide there. She has children. I don’t want to disturb them, so I sleep on the floor.”

He told the Mirror he would jump at the chance of working with former club Arsenal or players’ union the PFA.

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"I would accept help from anywhere but if my previous club wants to help me then I would be very, very happy. Maybe I could help the young players?

“The PFA helped me when I had my problems with my agent. If they gave me a job, even if it wasn’t a big, big job," he said.