"At the end of the season you want to relax and switch off, but you've got to be fresh, go on trials and try to prove you're good enough." Julian Joachim.
Much like the end of the football season, the period before the start of a new season has its winners and losers. Some players nab a lush new deal at a new club, such as Andy Robinson who dumped Swansea City in favour of Leeds United.
Some, face the wilderness of being unwanted. Drewe Broughton (pictured) is a football league legend. Labelled a journeyman, Drewe has had sixteen clubs in a prestigious career, and at 29 years of age, surely has some great years ahead of him.
Yet after three relatively successful trials at Luton, Gillingham and Rotherham, in which he scored in friendlies for all three sides, Broughton has not been offered a deal. Reports suggest he's had a few offers from non-league sides, but Broughton's passion for league football has seen him search on.
The guy know League Two. There'll be a team in there that could use his experience. Not to mention his incredible professionalism. Last season, after sending MK Dons to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final, Drewe went straight out on loan to Wrexham to get extra match practice. He didn't feature in the final but was there in a non playing capacity, and even warmed up for the game.
You'd think given a team like Luton or Bournemouth's circumstance he'd be perfect, he has experience in that sort of situation after his stint with doomed Boston United a few season's back. I hope a club in League Two is clever enough to cash in on this Journeyman of epic proportions, rather than leaving him enveloped in the abyss of being a free agent.
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