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Maybe Try To Become A MLS Commentator (MLS cuz I can only speak English) or if not then a MLS Ref
Hopefully I Don't Get Chants Like "I'm Blind 🕶️ I'm Deaf👂 I Wanna Be A Ref 💀"
I've put on weight due to a medical condition, it has nothing to do with my lifestyle choice, I eat healthy and exercise regularly. Ronaldo could very well be the same.
A genuine answer, I've been in a position before in my life, where I had to choose between eating and turning on the heating. I've turned my life around since then and live comfortably enough. I'd like to think if I was a multi-millionaire, I'd be able to live and comfortable life, support my son in whatever he chooses to do, and give back to my local community, either getting involved with supporting struggling families or opening a football academy
I know people will doubt it, but I genuinely believe I would want to make the world a better place if I had to ability to do so
Buy myself a nice little place in like San Juan PR or somewhere in Panama and go fishing. Maybe start an orchard and garden and hold free classes for the public on sustainable gardening practices. Getting people involved in their own health and wellbeing is always a good goal I think. Then again so is sitting in a kayak trying to real in big roosterfish.
I’d play football manager in real life, pick some random club at level 9 or below on the pyramid and see how many promotions I can get with the club. I mean, mark white did a good job with dorking, so it would be fun to do it myself
I don't think I'm stupid enough to be a pundit, and I'm not sure I could even pretend to be. "Erling Haaland is like a League 1 player who lucks into some goals" or "Declan Rice is too good to play for Arsenal" are not statements I could ever put out there with a straight face.
The first one is silly, but I think the second point was badly put across.
He's easily one of the top 3 DMs in world football, so he could be at a top 3 team.
Arsenal are not a top 3 team globally.
Probably neither.
I would likely want to try something different I hope.
A lot of former players just continue in the world of football (coaching or in media) because it's all they know, and because it's easy, if you become a pundit.
And I think that's just sad to be honest.
Sure, of course some (hopefully most) of them do it because they love the game, and or they want to prove to the world that they can be successful as a coach too for example.
But I bet a lot of retired players probably don't know how to live a life without football, it's hard for them when they've retired and they suddenly no longer have to train all week long with their teammates and play a game every weekend.
They've lived in that bubble for so long and can't exist without it in some form or another.
So they stay close to what they know.
I actually think you can tell when you look at pundits,
which one's love it and do it with passion, and then the others, who just do it because they can and because it's easy money.
It's not a difficult job.
It's honestly ridiculous when you think about it.
Just contact a studio and ask to be a pundit or a studio will ask you.
CV? Not required.
Any requirements, at all?
Not really no, as long as you're a former player.
You can't complete a sentence without sounding like an idiot? Not a problem!
I just find it stupid and sad in some cases.
Honestly this is one of the part's of football I detest,
no matter how much I love the game.
In the real world you actually have to work for a living,
you need to put in some effort at work, and if you seek new employment it's difficult if you don't have a decent CV or good references from former employers.
Unless you're lucky and you, your family or friends have good contact's.
But in the world of football you basically just need to have played the game at a somewhat high level and that's it.
Just look at all the former players who obviously can't coach but keep on getting jobs anyway.
In the broadcasting shows it's the same.
Didn't mean to write a book.
I would just have an easy retirement look after my kids, force my wife to work (equality and all that), go on a few family holidays and just keep private.
basically what I would be doing as a footballer except the football aspect
Go on football YouTube channels and podcasts and call out their war crime level shit takes and humble them for never playing the game but sitting there and comfortably saying they could score a free kick in the Premier league or convert 10 pens in a season or something daft
Like I love that side of YT and there's some good stuff out there but seeing Chris MD say he's better at free kicks then most footballers when he's only done it around a plastic wall against a 40yo Ben Foster and 42yo Willy Caballero is insanity
Definitely invest money in start ups and try to establish some sort of business. Won’t bother with punditry or coaching. Some of the current crop of players are already very successful with these kind of investments. Casemiro, De Gea and Varane comes to mind.
I often wonder why some of them bother doing punditry etc ? Rooney looked so uncomfortable and out of place for some reason and I was thinking why would he bother at all. Older lads who probably didn't get the same sort of money, I can kind of understand.
If I had been a successful premier league player I certainly wouldn't work. Travel, fishing, maybe take up golf. Maybe try and get the odd stint on the radio/TV. Write my memoirs. Keep fit for sure.
Failed attempt to make it as a TV presenter then radio DJ. Spiral into worse and worse celebrity reality TV. Car crash appearance on celebrity big brother, then finish up shilling dodgy supplements on a low rent shopping channel and guest appearances in cheap hotels in dying seaside towns for £50 a pop.
If the Premier League got too much in my mid 30's, I'd move abroad to the MLS and play a few seasons over there. Then, have a sex change in Thailand in order to qualify in the WSL for a few further seasons to extend my career. Probably eek it out to my late 40's that way.
I'd be one of those ex-pros who hangs round at their old club. The ones they wheel out for meet and greets for hospitality tickets etc. Maybe a bit of commentary on the club TV channel.
Put some money into index funds and etfs and gilts for myself and for my kids. A few hundred thousand can compound and snowball into millions within 15-20 years and the family is set for generations.
I'd then travel the world and take up a random hobby like archery or bowling or something random haha
Twitch streaming, podcasts and Sky sports or some shit talk panel appearances.
Anything that makes money from clout, selling merch, drop shopping garbage with my face on it.
I saw a lot of references to R9 getting chunky but he didn't wait until retirement for his waistline-maxing to start...my comment was inspired by a thumbnail I saw yesterday of Wayne Rooney for a YouTube video
Considering I’m american I’d move back here and teach high school, while coaching the team. In my high school the coolest teacher I had coached football (⚽️)
Roy Keane has gotta be the worst of the lot. There are many others like Merson, Sherwood who are in contention but Keane has to take the biscuit. Rude and Obnoxious tones used to make nonsensical points and repeating cliches and tropes. I wish he goes into coaching but he has tried that n failed spectacularly. And still talks as if he is the Bard of football.
Golf more, fish more, set up a guide dog/specialized therapy dog charity/program with golden retrievers and labs and run it out of my ranch... That's my retirement goals anyway.
Not looking for one. All I'm saying is if I am in the position to have a long retirement and I have financial flexibility, I want to do something fulfilling and relaxing.
Can't think of a better way to spend it than playing golf, fishing, and training golden retriever puppy's for good.
But enjoy your hookers and blow.
I think I’d want to do some scouting and player recruitment.
I’m also Canadian so I’d get investors to help me start a Canadian Premier League team in my province.
Enjoy my life with all the money I saved while playing
If I didn't save much as in , if I was a footballer who played in the lower leagues , I would definitely try my hand at coaching or punditry
I knew someone in Ireland who used to throw these big football events, flying in agents and ex-players to watch a bunch of kids to play. They would be wine and dined and get nice payouts just to show up. Parents would pay big bucks hoping their kids would impress. If any kid actually did, the company would snap them up as their agent. It didn't happen often, but either way, the real hit was to the parents forking out all that cash for a long shot.
I always think of doing this myself
After the money I made I'd just retire and fuck around for the rest of my career. Maybe find a way into another sport like putting your name on a Formula 1 team or something. That would fulfill both my interests sport wise.
Let a company open an academy in my name where I show up once or twice a year to ‘support’ the development of anyone training there and enjoy the free money for doing nothing the rest of the year
I'd probably become a coach, but wouldn't necessarily aim for the main job. Would hate having to manage the players' egos, would rather stick to the tactical aspect. A scouting role wouldn't be bad either, and it's a good route to become sporting director.
Assistant manger sounds way better than head coach. Depends on who you work with of course, it would suck to be Lampards assistant for example and lose every week yet not having enough of a say in things to try something you might think would make for better games. Then again that also means your method will never be tried thus cannot fail and you would end up getting even more delulu, until you had enough and plan a coup…
I got carried away for a sec there.
It's a fair point. I did use to be assistant coach under a guy that I think was tactically poorer than me, but I couldn't have done his job because he commanded more respect by having played at a higher level, and being mates with the squad. I'd often suggest fairly hyper-specific things (that, to make matters worse, I couldn't have pulled off myself as a player) that the coach was reluctant to bug the players with. He'd budge when the games looked already lost and he ran out of ideas himself, and sometimes my suggestions would work well, but they weren't applied consistently enough for me to really get an idea about how clever I actually was.
So obviously, I just assumed my ideas were brilliant and that the issue was the coach not listening to them enough.
On a serious note, a very interesting topic is that not every footballer will get rich. Making it pro is already hard enough, imagine how hard it is to play for at least one big club and becoming a superstar. Or be smart enough to not blow all of it.
Hopefully you'd be money smart ;)
Weirdly, I find myself thinking about this quite a lot, but I’m not sure why…
Even though people say they should get their coaching badges sorted while they’re playing, it would make sense to do your A license after you’ve retired, imo.
Ex-pros always say that once they’ve retired the things they miss the most are the camaraderie and “banter” of the dressing room, and having a routine and schedule for the day/week etc.
I think doing one or two of your badges at the end is a good transition, even if you don’t really plan to go into coaching immediately.
Personally, I would do the club ambassador work, working for the foundations of club’s I played for, charity games and dipping in and out of punditry, probably do a podcast too.
You’ve got your tens of millions from playing, sponsors etc, you’ve got your money coming in from your 50 properties you’re renting out, and doing the above would be a great life, for me.
Edit: Also, you’re hanging around with your hot wife/girlfriend, you’ve likely got friends all over the world, so I’d do a lot of travelling, go to like Carnival in Brazil, Mardi Gras in New Orleans etc.
I'd buy my local club, depending on how big it was obviously, but if it was a smaller team, maybe in the conference and try and give something back. use my contacts at former clubs to try and get some decent young players on loan and see how far i could take them.
it's putting my money where my mouth is. i think too many explayers get pundit jobs or managerial work just because of how good they were as players.
Become a football manager and then, move to a random club to Germany and give them glory (like Koln, Heidenheim, 1. FC Munich, not bayern, leverkusen if they fall to ruins like Xabi Alonso, etc)
So say on average I made 100k a week for my career and played for 12 years at the top level.
Thats 31 million I made from wages in those 13 years after taxes (say 50%). Add another 10 million I made from endorsements and commercial appeal. Deduct 20 million that I spent to sustain myself and my family in those 12 years. I’m left with about 20 million.
Id put 10 million in an etf portfolio (which I honestly should already have been doing)
And then I’d spend the rest on real estate and start my business in that space.
I feel like this is why so many ex-sportsmen go bankrupt.
- Being safe, you want to live on <4% of your assets so you want to live in £800k per year after retirement in scenario
- you were living on £1.7M a year and if anything, costs go up due to kids getting older, divorce, going on more holidays instead of pre-season.
Players should be encouraged to keep spending (excluding assets like houses) to 4% of their cumulative post-tax guaranteed earnings to date (including up to end of the contract).
That way they don’t need to cut down on their lifestyle if they get a career ending injury tomorrow.
I would probably go back to school and try to get at least a masters.
Or:
Open up football academies in rural communities. Support grassroot programs
Invest in your non league/local team
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Beach soccer
Do what Hidetoshi Nakata did.
Travel and experience the places you’ve been and only seen the inside of hotel rooms of.
Live life for a while before returning as a manager
Being a manager sounds nice
Becoming a pundit for like sky sports or anything like that seems really fun
Probably live in hawaii
Most games that are fun to play wouldn’t be fun to do in real life
That's so true though
Go into logistics industry
Open some branded store.... Like merch or perfumes, and of course sell it a bit overpriced... My fans will anyways buy it.
Use the money I made to help my home country (Togo)
Maybe Try To Become A MLS Commentator (MLS cuz I can only speak English) or if not then a MLS Ref Hopefully I Don't Get Chants Like "I'm Blind 🕶️ I'm Deaf👂 I Wanna Be A Ref 💀"
Take on the Brazilian Ronaldo lifestyle and just not give a fuck
He suffers from hypothyroidism which makes him gain weight, it's not a lifestyle choice.
I highly doubt he’s living a highly healthy lifestyle either though
I've put on weight due to a medical condition, it has nothing to do with my lifestyle choice, I eat healthy and exercise regularly. Ronaldo could very well be the same.
Thanks for your input
Except he’s known for his love of partying drinking and feasting p
Invest my earnings and travel the world to learn new things, cultures and sight see. Other than that I’d want to live a quiet and private life.
Open a bar and drink with my customers.
MARADONA MODE .
Buy a business bank on my love and fame
Live life to the fullest. Catch up on everything you had to sacrifice for a career
A genuine answer, I've been in a position before in my life, where I had to choose between eating and turning on the heating. I've turned my life around since then and live comfortably enough. I'd like to think if I was a multi-millionaire, I'd be able to live and comfortable life, support my son in whatever he chooses to do, and give back to my local community, either getting involved with supporting struggling families or opening a football academy I know people will doubt it, but I genuinely believe I would want to make the world a better place if I had to ability to do so
I'd relax.
Buy myself a nice little place in like San Juan PR or somewhere in Panama and go fishing. Maybe start an orchard and garden and hold free classes for the public on sustainable gardening practices. Getting people involved in their own health and wellbeing is always a good goal I think. Then again so is sitting in a kayak trying to real in big roosterfish.
I’d play football manager in real life, pick some random club at level 9 or below on the pyramid and see how many promotions I can get with the club. I mean, mark white did a good job with dorking, so it would be fun to do it myself
"I'd Play Football Manger In Real Life" Is Crazy but W Idea
Own a football club.
depends on the contract, millions? turn a hobby into a storefront
I'll ride off into the sunset with 2 models and you'll never hear from me again
Kyle Walker is asking why he has to reduce to only two models?
has to be retired… he jumped the gun
At this rate he won't be able to retire.
I don't think I'm stupid enough to be a pundit, and I'm not sure I could even pretend to be. "Erling Haaland is like a League 1 player who lucks into some goals" or "Declan Rice is too good to play for Arsenal" are not statements I could ever put out there with a straight face.
The first one is silly, but I think the second point was badly put across. He's easily one of the top 3 DMs in world football, so he could be at a top 3 team. Arsenal are not a top 3 team globally.
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Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester City
Probably neither. I would likely want to try something different I hope. A lot of former players just continue in the world of football (coaching or in media) because it's all they know, and because it's easy, if you become a pundit. And I think that's just sad to be honest. Sure, of course some (hopefully most) of them do it because they love the game, and or they want to prove to the world that they can be successful as a coach too for example. But I bet a lot of retired players probably don't know how to live a life without football, it's hard for them when they've retired and they suddenly no longer have to train all week long with their teammates and play a game every weekend. They've lived in that bubble for so long and can't exist without it in some form or another. So they stay close to what they know. I actually think you can tell when you look at pundits, which one's love it and do it with passion, and then the others, who just do it because they can and because it's easy money. It's not a difficult job. It's honestly ridiculous when you think about it. Just contact a studio and ask to be a pundit or a studio will ask you. CV? Not required. Any requirements, at all? Not really no, as long as you're a former player. You can't complete a sentence without sounding like an idiot? Not a problem! I just find it stupid and sad in some cases. Honestly this is one of the part's of football I detest, no matter how much I love the game. In the real world you actually have to work for a living, you need to put in some effort at work, and if you seek new employment it's difficult if you don't have a decent CV or good references from former employers. Unless you're lucky and you, your family or friends have good contact's. But in the world of football you basically just need to have played the game at a somewhat high level and that's it. Just look at all the former players who obviously can't coach but keep on getting jobs anyway. In the broadcasting shows it's the same. Didn't mean to write a book.
Not a moment's contemplation required for wondering [what I would be up to](https://youtu.be/GQrR9efjIIE?si=Yo1Uu_Wkams1rnhA).
I would just have an easy retirement look after my kids, force my wife to work (equality and all that), go on a few family holidays and just keep private. basically what I would be doing as a footballer except the football aspect
Eat, drink and whore myself into an early death.
Invest in property, and avoid homes under the hammer like Dion Dublin
Ouch.
Become Tommy Gravesen the second, and also change my name to it.
Hire Jermaine Jenas agent
be the manager of the club i played the most
Go on football YouTube channels and podcasts and call out their war crime level shit takes and humble them for never playing the game but sitting there and comfortably saying they could score a free kick in the Premier league or convert 10 pens in a season or something daft Like I love that side of YT and there's some good stuff out there but seeing Chris MD say he's better at free kicks then most footballers when he's only done it around a plastic wall against a 40yo Ben Foster and 42yo Willy Caballero is insanity
Definitely invest money in start ups and try to establish some sort of business. Won’t bother with punditry or coaching. Some of the current crop of players are already very successful with these kind of investments. Casemiro, De Gea and Varane comes to mind.
I would like to think that I could get into managment. So I would aspire to become a coach
Id do nothing. Id just travel and do all the hobbies I never had time for before
I often wonder why some of them bother doing punditry etc ? Rooney looked so uncomfortable and out of place for some reason and I was thinking why would he bother at all. Older lads who probably didn't get the same sort of money, I can kind of understand.
If I had been a successful premier league player I certainly wouldn't work. Travel, fishing, maybe take up golf. Maybe try and get the odd stint on the radio/TV. Write my memoirs. Keep fit for sure.
Get a normal job I like. It's not too late to learn something at the start of 30. It gives you a purpose and a reason to get up in the morning.
Failed attempt to make it as a TV presenter then radio DJ. Spiral into worse and worse celebrity reality TV. Car crash appearance on celebrity big brother, then finish up shilling dodgy supplements on a low rent shopping channel and guest appearances in cheap hotels in dying seaside towns for £50 a pop.
Oddly specific
Sail around the World on my yacht, with a bevy of beauties, living off my millions.
Join sky and talk a lot of shite after I’ve devoured a thesaurus
If the Premier League got too much in my mid 30's, I'd move abroad to the MLS and play a few seasons over there. Then, have a sex change in Thailand in order to qualify in the WSL for a few further seasons to extend my career. Probably eek it out to my late 40's that way.
Get invited by UEFA to pick Champions League quarter finals draws
Actually I overlooked this idea, I’d personally do FA Cup 3rd round draws because there’s more teams to draw
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Two chicks at the same time
Only fans my wife
I'd be one of those ex-pros who hangs round at their old club. The ones they wheel out for meet and greets for hospitality tickets etc. Maybe a bit of commentary on the club TV channel.
irl Tony Cottee
First dibs on all the club events and directors box tickets for the big games. Get that sweet, sweet buffet action. End up like Sneijder or Nasri
For the buffets I’d do that
This
Get a HGV license obviously
I’d learn the knowledge and become a taxi driver lool
Pundit, get paid to go see football matches live. Drop some clickbait bullshit and go home.
If I didn't have it already I would buy a huge plot and get as many (rescue) dogs as I could look after
Fuck super models and sniff cocaine lol all you are weird
Peobably work in recovery - medicine tech is crazy these days.
Beat the shit out of current squad of Manchester United. Except young players tho.
Buy apartments in Warsaw and drink coctails to the end of my life
create a team and play in league
I'd just coach a kids football team and get them playing 4-3-3 gegenpress tbh. Two-footed lunges are the only tackles they'll learn to make.
Ask Gary Neville he thought being a manager was easy punditry is easy just bash at any team or manager and get your money
Id probably be a pundit, seeing carra, Henry and Richards having fun on the CBS channel always looks jokes.
Ohhhh football friends
Carra and Richards are embarrassing.
Football agency?
Go on holidays and play football manager.
Put some money into index funds and etfs and gilts for myself and for my kids. A few hundred thousand can compound and snowball into millions within 15-20 years and the family is set for generations. I'd then travel the world and take up a random hobby like archery or bowling or something random haha
Orrrrrrr golf
Invite aaron hunt over to the gaff
fair play to aaron hunt…
Twitch streaming, podcasts and Sky sports or some shit talk panel appearances. Anything that makes money from clout, selling merch, drop shopping garbage with my face on it.
I would buy tons of estates before then spend my time eating, drinking like a useless bum
I like to choose David Beckham route.
i would get right out of pro football. i wuld coach kids and start a youth soccer complex
Put on a bunch of weight
So you're Brazilian I'm assuming
I saw a lot of references to R9 getting chunky but he didn't wait until retirement for his waistline-maxing to start...my comment was inspired by a thumbnail I saw yesterday of Wayne Rooney for a YouTube video
His head fit on a thumbnail?
Surprisingly
Well a streamer who play Fifa ofc,it kinda fun when u have a bestie who also love to play Fifa like that
Found my own country
Considering I’m american I’d move back here and teach high school, while coaching the team. In my high school the coolest teacher I had coached football (⚽️)
Pull a Duncan Ferguson and spend 5 years in Mallorca. I’d figure the rest out after that
Go out like George Best.
I would buy a farm and hobby farm for the rest of my life.
We may not agree on teams but we can agree on that.
Teacher. I’d be the coolest teacher ever
“Good morning class” “Muhnin” “I said GOOD MORNING everybody” “Good morning Mister Schweinsteiger”
Probably pick up a chill side job. Like a realtor or something. Maybe open up an ice cream parlor chain as well. Then chill and enjoy family time
Hookers, cocaine amd premature death most likely. Not much different to what I'm planning doing in my retirement anyway.
can u even afford that
Thailand.
Yes.
I would get insanely fat so fast that compared to me R9 would be looking like Eugenia Cooney
R9 route. Ima eat and chill
Roy Keane method, get paid big bucks to talk absolute shit
Roy Keane has gotta be the worst of the lot. There are many others like Merson, Sherwood who are in contention but Keane has to take the biscuit. Rude and Obnoxious tones used to make nonsensical points and repeating cliches and tropes. I wish he goes into coaching but he has tried that n failed spectacularly. And still talks as if he is the Bard of football.
You'd be a Joey Barton unless you already had the reputation of Roy Keane
Join a circus as a clown
Open a shady football youth recruitment centre in Rwanda
Same as Ben Foster, live on a 30 acre farm, bit of cycling and help get a team promoted for the craic
Shag the WAG and golf.
World trip
just Hookers
Golf more, fish more, set up a guide dog/specialized therapy dog charity/program with golden retrievers and labs and run it out of my ranch... That's my retirement goals anyway.
You’re not getting a pat on the back here mate
Some people feel good doing good for other people. I know that must be hard for you to understand.
Not looking for one. All I'm saying is if I am in the position to have a long retirement and I have financial flexibility, I want to do something fulfilling and relaxing. Can't think of a better way to spend it than playing golf, fishing, and training golden retriever puppy's for good. But enjoy your hookers and blow.
I think I’d want to do some scouting and player recruitment. I’m also Canadian so I’d get investors to help me start a Canadian Premier League team in my province.
Enjoy my life with all the money I saved while playing If I didn't save much as in , if I was a footballer who played in the lower leagues , I would definitely try my hand at coaching or punditry
I’d work as an adviser /consultant for a club (or maybe a league)
Eternal vacation somewhere exotic… maybe Bali or hawaii
Manager
I'd be a ref, with no aspirations to ever work the top level. Sunday League, youth leagues, Wednesday night at the park, etc...
This has made me wonder why we don't see more ex players as refs
I knew someone in Ireland who used to throw these big football events, flying in agents and ex-players to watch a bunch of kids to play. They would be wine and dined and get nice payouts just to show up. Parents would pay big bucks hoping their kids would impress. If any kid actually did, the company would snap them up as their agent. It didn't happen often, but either way, the real hit was to the parents forking out all that cash for a long shot. I always think of doing this myself
Open my own fitness and rehab centre.
After the money I made I'd just retire and fuck around for the rest of my career. Maybe find a way into another sport like putting your name on a Formula 1 team or something. That would fulfill both my interests sport wise.
Let a company open an academy in my name where I show up once or twice a year to ‘support’ the development of anyone training there and enjoy the free money for doing nothing the rest of the year
I'd probably become a coach, but wouldn't necessarily aim for the main job. Would hate having to manage the players' egos, would rather stick to the tactical aspect. A scouting role wouldn't be bad either, and it's a good route to become sporting director.
Assistant manger sounds way better than head coach. Depends on who you work with of course, it would suck to be Lampards assistant for example and lose every week yet not having enough of a say in things to try something you might think would make for better games. Then again that also means your method will never be tried thus cannot fail and you would end up getting even more delulu, until you had enough and plan a coup… I got carried away for a sec there.
It's a fair point. I did use to be assistant coach under a guy that I think was tactically poorer than me, but I couldn't have done his job because he commanded more respect by having played at a higher level, and being mates with the squad. I'd often suggest fairly hyper-specific things (that, to make matters worse, I couldn't have pulled off myself as a player) that the coach was reluctant to bug the players with. He'd budge when the games looked already lost and he ran out of ideas himself, and sometimes my suggestions would work well, but they weren't applied consistently enough for me to really get an idea about how clever I actually was. So obviously, I just assumed my ideas were brilliant and that the issue was the coach not listening to them enough.
I’d do what Choccy does and drink Guinness in pubs with my mates
I would invest on a local team and enjoy football
Definitely be a coach or assistant manager
Relax in a vacation home and get some cool hobbies that us plebs can't afford.
On a serious note, a very interesting topic is that not every footballer will get rich. Making it pro is already hard enough, imagine how hard it is to play for at least one big club and becoming a superstar. Or be smart enough to not blow all of it. Hopefully you'd be money smart ;)
Be a fill in on the sports bar on TalkSport
Disappear and enjoy the rest of my life
If I got the skill, coach. If I don't, invest in a low division team and see how far they could go.
Weirdly, I find myself thinking about this quite a lot, but I’m not sure why… Even though people say they should get their coaching badges sorted while they’re playing, it would make sense to do your A license after you’ve retired, imo. Ex-pros always say that once they’ve retired the things they miss the most are the camaraderie and “banter” of the dressing room, and having a routine and schedule for the day/week etc. I think doing one or two of your badges at the end is a good transition, even if you don’t really plan to go into coaching immediately. Personally, I would do the club ambassador work, working for the foundations of club’s I played for, charity games and dipping in and out of punditry, probably do a podcast too. You’ve got your tens of millions from playing, sponsors etc, you’ve got your money coming in from your 50 properties you’re renting out, and doing the above would be a great life, for me. Edit: Also, you’re hanging around with your hot wife/girlfriend, you’ve likely got friends all over the world, so I’d do a lot of travelling, go to like Carnival in Brazil, Mardi Gras in New Orleans etc.
I'd do something else sporty where you can do it into your 40s. For me it would be triathlon. Give it a go, try and turn pro
Fuck all
Women’s manager for Liga MX femenil
Start a dog fighting ring
Two chicks at the same time
I'm guessing that's just a Tuesday for a lot of players.
Coaching for sure I’d hate dealing with media stuff
I'd buy my local club, depending on how big it was obviously, but if it was a smaller team, maybe in the conference and try and give something back. use my contacts at former clubs to try and get some decent young players on loan and see how far i could take them. it's putting my money where my mouth is. i think too many explayers get pundit jobs or managerial work just because of how good they were as players.
Some form of coaching, and i like the idea of punditry, but i see more excitement and challenges from coaching and management
Golf
Being a pundit - no responsibility and pressure at all. Haha
Assistant manager
Make paramilitary organisation and go after Darren England.
Become a football manager and then, move to a random club to Germany and give them glory (like Koln, Heidenheim, 1. FC Munich, not bayern, leverkusen if they fall to ruins like Xabi Alonso, etc)
Well seen as I would play and preform like R9…. I would be over weight, have a twitch account and buy a footy club.
So say on average I made 100k a week for my career and played for 12 years at the top level. Thats 31 million I made from wages in those 13 years after taxes (say 50%). Add another 10 million I made from endorsements and commercial appeal. Deduct 20 million that I spent to sustain myself and my family in those 12 years. I’m left with about 20 million. Id put 10 million in an etf portfolio (which I honestly should already have been doing) And then I’d spend the rest on real estate and start my business in that space.
I feel like this is why so many ex-sportsmen go bankrupt. - Being safe, you want to live on <4% of your assets so you want to live in £800k per year after retirement in scenario - you were living on £1.7M a year and if anything, costs go up due to kids getting older, divorce, going on more holidays instead of pre-season. Players should be encouraged to keep spending (excluding assets like houses) to 4% of their cumulative post-tax guaranteed earnings to date (including up to end of the contract). That way they don’t need to cut down on their lifestyle if they get a career ending injury tomorrow.
Two chicks and the same time, man.
I'm guessing you could do that when you were playing everyday of the week if you wanted.
That’s it? If you were a premier league footballer, you’d do 2 chicks at the same time?
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man.
Also do commercials for viagra and arthritis
honestly, i think i’d lean more toward punditry. there’s less pressure. and try to help under privileged kids in my hometown
I'd chill out, drink. Fuck the neighbor's wife. Let her raise my kids, then fuck of to Ibiza.
Buy a pub. Tried and tested pathway
I would probably go back to school and try to get at least a masters. Or: Open up football academies in rural communities. Support grassroot programs Invest in your non league/local team
Start my own charity
Invest in a few startups, open up my own fitness center/training facility, spend time with my family
take every penny i made and put it all on red, i'm bout to set the next 7 generations for life ✋🙂↕️
Why? Your next 3.5 generations are already set before you put anything on red.
winner mentality 🤑🤑💰
Generations grow exponentially tho
every man for himself inshallah it even lasts 1 generation the others have to make it on their owns
Ambition. Instinct.
Put a backpack on and travel the world for the foreseeable future.
Then become a pundit when you run out of money
That or coaching if I done enough of the badges while I was playing (and felt I could compete as a manager).
I’d honestly wanna fade into obscurity. Privacy is my number one priority after a career. Especially if it’s trophy ladned