Semi pro/ Pro player.

[kilnhurstowl]

I was thinking, if you play for a semi pro team but then you get promoted to a pro league and the team want to keep you, what do you do with the job you used to do part time?  Eg stacking shelves. 

Is it a case of drop it for one season incase you get relegated back to semi-pro league or what? I have never understood how it works at that lower level where there is a great risk of going out of the pro league 

[alanharper]

Personally I'd take a career break from stacking shelves, and hope that I could secure another such privileged  position when I'd finished being a pro footballer. 

[Arthur Bach]

Interesting scenarios can arise.

 

You're 28, have a partner expecting your first child but after a rich run of form a League Two side offer you a 2 year contract on £1,100 per week. You've passed the medical but know deep down your pace isn't what it was.

 

You're currently on £750 a week at a local firm that is expanding and you play for a well established non-league club earning £100 appearance fee and a £50 goal bonus. At this level you are expected to play well into your 30's.

 

Its a no-brainer.

[fudge27]

24 minutes ago, Arthur Bach said:

Interesting scenarios can arise.

 

You're 28, have a partner expecting your first child but after a rich run of form a League Two side offer you a 2 year contract on £1,100 per week. You've passed the medical but know deep down your pace isn't what it was.

 

You're currently on £750 a week at a local firm that is expanding and you play for a well established non-league club earning £100 appearance fee and a £50 goal bonus. At this level you are expected to play well into your 30's.

 

Its a no-brainer.

Agree. 

 

You sign for Donny and can tell your kids you were a professional footballer 

[Arthur Bach]

13 minutes ago, fudge27 said:

Agree. 

 

You sign for Donny and can tell your kids you were a professional footballer 

 

Forgot to say, the club is 150 miles away.

[Maddogbob]

In Bach's scenario you stay semi pro. 

 

The rewards on offer non league wise, can be pretty good.

 

I once met a lad who ran his own 1 to 1 coaching and was playing for Stockport in the nl north at the time. He got 10k just for being part of the promotion team. So non league money at the top end, well it's still pretty generous and you can carve a decent living. Playing and working part time.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Maddogbob