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I get quite a few reserve team players from leagues 1 and 2 on full time contracts (often under 21's) showing an interest in joining my Conf South club, via my scout reports. All my players are on part time contracts.
I don't sign any of these 'full timers' and I can sort them in my scout report by contract type. Nonetheless,(and maybe I'm over-reacting) it just doesn't seem particularly realistic to me to quit a full time contract with a league 1 or 2 team (admittedly in their reserves) and travel 100+ miles twice a week to train and play part time for my club.
Acknowledging that I play my game by not signing such full timers as I feel it is potentially unrealistic, I'm still interested in the views of seasoned LLM's about this.
Perhaps they fear they won't make it as a full-time pro and are willing to take a part-time contract with you, and get a job in your town, in order to keep their dream alive...
A lot of younger players at league 1/2 leave for part-time outfits, because they can't make the grade at league 1/2. I can think of six off the top of my head who left my team last season to join Conference, Conference North and Unibond league clubs. Admittedly, they were all clubs in the locality, though.
I can see the logic of what you are respectively saying. Clearly, I need to have a more open mind about this. The games' AI certainly has no such hang up's about signing players from higher leagues to Conf South competitors. I acknowledge AI decisions have already been debated in this forum, so I won't dwell on this.
I guess geography, playing history, salary, player personality and contract expiry dates all go into the mix of individuals deciding to cut their losses and go part time, as wizzle suggests. I'll keep making reasoned judgements, in the name of reality.
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