He was close to joining Wigan in the 2013/14 season. With his contract at Bolton that season he was being lined up to join them in the January transfer window, a move which would have seen him sign for Owen Coyle for a third time.
However, Coyle was sacked just before Christmas, the move didn't happen and he was released by Bolton at the end of that season.
Last season proved difficult although he did get two short term deals in the Championship, firstly at Blackpool and then Charlton, but since leaving Charlton at the end of last season he's been without a club.
He was training for a while with Preston in pre-season but those Burnley fans who were at the under-21 game two weeks ago were surprised to see him turn up in a Wigan shirt. Manager Gary Caldwell suggested he was just training with them due to him living locally, but there must have been some potential for him to join them given they played him in the cup competition.
Caldwell said: "Chris is someone who lives locally and he’s just been in for training. We’ve given him that opportunity to keep fit, and he’s done very well here. It’s just training at the minute, though. It’s not something we’re really looking into at this moment in time."
He arrived at Coventry today to start training and there manager Tony Mowbray said they were looking at him with a view to a potential signing. "We're always looking at players and I'm getting phone calls all the time from people and agents who want to come and play for us, and some good players, which is good," Mowbray said.
"Players who haven't played for a while or been in the Premier League or Championship. It's a question of how are they now? I don't like taking people just on reputation. I like to know what they're doing, how they are playing, what they are about because th team is all that matters and will they improve the team?
"That improvement has to be continual because without it you stand still. and if you're standing still in football you're going backwards. You have to look to improve in all areas."
Eagles was with Burnley for three years from 2008 to 2011, but last played competitive first team football at Charlton in May of this year when he came on as a substitute in Charlton's 3-0 home defeat against Bournemouth in the last game of the season.