There will be hundreds of footballers up and down the country seeking new employment this summer.
Omar Bogle is one of those, having been released by Cardiff City following the end of his contract.
It never quite worked out for the striker, who had his trouble with injuries as well as loan spells away from the Bluebirds, firstly at Peterborough, then Birmingham City, then Portsmouth and most recently with Alan Pardew at ADO Den Haag in Holland.
Bogle, who signed back in 2017, scored just four goals in 24 games for the Bluebirds, but he still has many supporters who believe his potential remains untapped.
Before official word came from Cardiff City that Bogle would leave the club, the striker let the cat out of the bag with a strongly-worded tweet, which read: "Unappreciated, undervalued and misjudged but the best of me is going to be someone’s treasure once again. I have the reins on my life! #Maverick."
He might believe he was underappreciated at Cardiff City, but he is confident another club will benefit from his exit.
"I'm going to be a treasure for somebody else, for another club and another manager. I enjoyed my time at Cardiff, made some great friends and met some great people," Bogle told the BBC.
"I never think it's a bad thing being a free agent. It depends on what you're coming off the back of. If you're coming off an injury and you haven't played for a long time, then you can find yourself in a difficult position.
"I know how good I am and I know how hard I've worked to get to where I am. This is the first time I've been in this position since I was 17. Me now is totally different to then. Back then, I felt like the world was ending. My head was gone."
It's a foray into the unknown for Bogle, who, at 27, has been contracted to a club for a decade.
But to help with this destabilising period, he has ventured into another discipline: Writing music.
"I started recording music in May," he added. "I've been writing music for the past five or six years. We have a lot of spare time as footballers.
"Music is like my therapy. Football is an emotional rollercoaster. I just write to music and write what I feel, that's how I vent to myself."
While, for the time being, Bogle is occupying himself writing music, he will doubtless want to be penning a new football contract very soon.
