Midfielder Chris Erskine has turned down a brand new deal at East Kilbride and revealed he now has SPFL golf equipment chasing his signature for subsequent season.
The 35-year-old is within the twilight of his enjoying profession as he mixes soccer with a brand new full-time job as a fire-fighter and he had hoped to strike a deal to remain at Kilby subsequent season, who play only a brief distance away from his base at East Kilbride Fireplace Station.
Nonetheless, talks with Kilby gaffer Kevin Rutkiewicz final week collapsed after each events failed to succeed in an settlement.
Whereas Erskine is disillusioned he will not be staying along with his hometown membership, the Lindsayfield man is eager to safe one thing else quickly and hasn't been wanting gives since asserting his exit on social media on Sunday.
Erskine, who performed his final recreation for the membership in opposition to Bonnyrigg Rose final month having been out since Christmas, advised Lanarkshire Stay Sport: "I spoke to the supervisor during the last week or so, they provided me a deal and it simply wasn't proper for me.
"He had his concepts about what was proper for the membership going ahead and our ideas simply did not meet.
"It is nothing private or unhealthy, it is simply a type of issues in soccer and we wished one another all the perfect.
"A little bit of it was about becoming round my job and a little bit of it was concerning the phrases I used to be in search of. They simply did not match, sadly, as a result of I'd have favored to remain.
"It will have suited me effectively being near the hearth station, however much more than that, I am from East Kilbride and I genuinely wished to assist the membership get promoted so it is disappointing.
"It is a new supervisor moving into there along with his personal concepts and he is bought to do what's greatest for the membership, and I've bought to do what's greatest for me.
"As soon as I tweeted [he'd left], I've had 5 or 6 folks on to me and a pair from the skilled leagues, however it is going to come all the way down to what fits me greatest.
"I do know it sounds a bit egocentric, however my hearth service job in my primary now."
Erskine has loads of top-flight expertise having performed within the Premiership for Partick Thistle, Dundee United and Livingston.
He has had three spells on the Jags throughout his profession, which began within the Juniors with Kilbirnie Ladeside.
And he insists he does not thoughts what stage he performs at subsequent time period, so long as it fits his work commitments.
He added: "I am undoubtedly going to play on. I missed it within the few months I used to be off for the hearth coaching.
"I am not fussed about what stage it is at however I would prefer to go someplace that has a wee little bit of ambition, needs to win one thing.
"I am going to at all times have that ambition in soccer, so even whether it is dropping down divisions to a staff that desires to win a league or one thing like that then I am going to do it.
"I do not suppose it is going to be an enormous concern with my shifts, however there may be potential I'd miss coaching right here and there.
"If I might be shut or inside 30-45 minutes of the station that can actually assist me.
"I will be on night time shift two weeks out of 10 but when I am near residence I am going to nonetheless make them and will not have to get shifts coated for soccer, principally.
"That narrows down the place I can go however I simply need to preserve enjoying so long as attainable."
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