Off Topic Lewie Coyle's Football Academy

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Stupid thing to do
Concentrate on playing
Do that when you retire
Done right it is an absolute money machine. We supply an Academy in Buckinghamshire with 700+ kids across a variety of levels and the owner told me the parents pay £35 a month as a basic fee and he has a waiting list of people wanting to snap up places. Only him and one other are on the payroll, all other coaches are volunteers. The parents have to buy the kit from us on top of the basic fee as well as travel for the JPL teams. boots, accessories etc. Must cost them a small fortune to have a kid in there.

It is not silly to suggest someone with the popularity of Lewie he could earn more from this a week than football in the end. It is really easy to scale up and franchise. Would imagine he is one of the lower earners at City.
 
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A few ex-City players are in this business. Simon Johnson and David Norton are two that spring to mind.
 
Done right it is an absolute money machine. We supply an Academy in Buckinghamshire with 700+ kids across a variety of levels and the owner told me the parents pay £35 a month as a basic fee and he has a waiting list of people wanting to snap up places. Only him and one other are on the payroll, all other coaches are volunteers. The parents have to buy the kit from us on top of the basic fee as well as travel for the JPL teams. boots, accessories etc. Must cost them a small fortune to have a kid in there.

It is not silly to suggest someone with the popularity of Lewie he could earn more from this a week than football in the end. It is really easy to scale up and franchise. Would imagine he is one of the lower earners at City.

So the owner makes a lot of money and he doesn't even pay the coaches ?
 
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So the owner makes a lot of money and he doesn't even pay the coaches ?
He does'nt need to, coaches want to be there as much as the kids. They have fed players into clubs all over the South for years so the coaches want to be a part of it a few evenings a week. I've considered doing some stuff with a pro club at Under 9s on a volunteer basis. I earn enough from my day job and I love coaching. The problem I see is the travel as it is an out of town role and would mean me seeing less of my own kids, I already coach twice a week in Hull. A lot of the Pro clubs including City have volunteers coaching the kids, there is a job on their website right now for our West Yorkshire satalite academy.
 
With footballers setting up academies and NHS surgeons giving Stev Rico a circumcision on their kitchen table for £50, it seems like everyone has got a side hustle nice little earner nowadays.

I've been paying upkeep for a gay ram for the last five years that won't **** the sheep.. time for a phone call to the abbatoir.
 
With footballers setting up academies and NHS surgeons giving Stev Rico a circumcision on their kitchen table for £50, it seems like everyone has got a side hustle nice little earner nowadays.

I've been paying upkeep for a gay ram for the last five years that won't **** the sheep.. time for a phone call to the abbatoir.
You’re being fleeced.