redyellow&blue wrote:wenchbarwer wrote:Do players actively shop themselves? I assumed it was the other way, not that I've been involved with clubs for a long while.
Mate of mine, his lad will get half a dozen messages each off season from various clubs. I assumed this was the norm!
Some do.
some of the stories and the message threads between player and club make you pull your hair out though.
Maybe it's just the boys I know, then. Youngest couple of lads get offers from previous coaches, etc, while their elder brother gets chased pretty hard by clubs, they use an "in" to try to get him across, like a former team mate or friend, or sometimes it's a cold call.