Life as a Wag in the transfer window

For now, Jessica's vocation successful instrumentality is connected hold, she alternatively has a occupation successful societal media and works from home.

She besides posts astir her experiences connected TikTok, regularly utilizing #wag and #waglife.

"My vocation tin beryllium picked up astatine immoderate clip - whereas his vocation is close present and you've truly got to instrumentality each opportunity," she says.

"As overmuch arsenic radical accidental it's a glamorous manner you bash marque sacrifices truthful your spouse tin person their imagination and get themselves arsenic acold arsenic they tin successful football.

"At the extremity of the day, arsenic overmuch arsenic I'm involved, it's his career. That means successful bid for maine to enactment him decently I can't get emotionally involved."

This includes not getting excessively emotionally attached to wherever they live.

"We usually rent newer houses that are a blank canvas truthful we tin marque them our own, though this past play the accommodation was provided furnished by Argyle," she says.

"We enactment a batch of Xavier's toys and plot worldly successful retention and referred to our Plymouth accommodation arsenic 'the vacation house'.

"It tin beryllium hard erstwhile helium asks america to get things similar his trampoline which we don't person with us."

Owen's vocation is ever the priority, Jessica says.

"When Owen was astatine Oxford helium had 1 twelvemonth near connected his declaration and I loved it there," she says.

"But the champion happening was for him to spell and get crippled clip determination miles away. So we moved."

While Premier League footballers tin gain tens of thousands of pounds a week - sometimes hundreds of thousands - beingness successful the little leagues tin beryllium precise different.

"When you deliberation 'Wag' [players' wives and girlfriends] and you deliberation 'footballer', some of those presumption travel with this stereotype that our lives are easy," Jessica says.

"People besides enactment League One players successful the aforesaid bracket arsenic Premier League players.

"In the Premier League they're often acceptable up for beingness - we can't unrecorded successful that mode due to the fact that we person to hole for beingness aft football."

Adding to the uncertainty of wherever they volition beryllium playing is besides the anticipation oregon relegation oregon injury.

"When we were astatine Portsmouth, Blackpool was inactive his genitor nine and they got relegated," says Jessica. "Owen wasn't adjacent progressive that season, but his wage was inactive affected.

"You person to beryllium prepared for everything. You conscionable can't unrecorded extracurricular of your means.

"But it's inactive a truly fortunate presumption to beryllium in.

"Luckily, Owen's been bully with injuries. There are immoderate players who they get injured successful the past period of the play and they're retired of contract.

"In shot things tin beryllium truly affirmative oregon truly negative."

The uncertainty besides affects their children - four-year-old Xavier and two-month aged Etta.

"Now that Xavier is increasing up - he's accelerated approaching schoolhouse property - different happening that volition person to beryllium added into the premix is his stability," says Jessica.

Even mean things similar organising his caller 4th day enactment aren't ever straightforward.

"We couldn't program to person a enactment successful Plymouth with balloons and cakes etc due to the fact that we didn't cognize if we were going to beryllium there," she says.

"Instead we planned a enactment adjacent my household successful Stoke-on-Trent - we needed to marque thing enactment careless of what happens with Owen's job.

"As overmuch arsenic I interest astir Xavier and Etta, I besides deliberation however astonishing it's going to beryllium for them erstwhile they're older to beryllium capable to archer their beingness communicative and accidental they've lived successful each these antithetic places.

"I deliberation it's teaching them a bully beingness acquisition that they don't request to beryllium tied to 1 place."

She says they person made each determination a affirmative experience.

"We've said to Xavier that we mightiness beryllium moving soon and erstwhile we bash we're going to get his motorcycle backmost retired of storage," says Jessica.

"That mode helium knows that moving is simply a anticipation and hopefully he's not reasoning astir what he's going to suffer but what he's going to gain.

"The fortunate happening for america is that Xavier loves football. He gets a batch of excitement arsenic good from the caller strips and the caller chants and each of that benignant of thing."