Highlighting the good and bad of grassroots football
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Secret grassroots coach retweeted
Love it - charge parents £4000 a week then nick the best kids for free and still parents fall for the propaganda 🤣🤣
“…Next Monday, during half-term, dozens of children will pack into Chelsea’s training ground. These players have not been selected. Rather, they will be at Cobham because their parents have paid for coaching. Each week at Chelsea, parents pay £120 an hour for children to receive one-on-one coaching. This is merely a glimpse of how clubs monetise parents. A two-week camp at Charterhouse School next summer, during which children train for up to 24 hours each week with Chelsea coaches, costs £4,700. Training is so bespoke that there are even goalkeeping camps…”
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See the new thing is blokes with limited football knowledge now pretending they are scouts for professional clubs.
Do they go and watch football matches?
Na
Just text their mates “any players you know that are any good?”
Inspiring
Some very poorly and mentally unwell parents
Signing up for trial events and development centres
Numb
Parents of academy kids, how many times a day do you reckon you tell people you’re kid is at an academy?
Secret grassroots coach retweeted
Anyone know of anywhere that will
Donate football boots for children in a school i work in please? We try to take them to play tournaments once a month and some of our pupils dont have the appropriate footwear. All sizes appreciated ⚽️. #footballforeveryone
See the new thing is grassroots clubs getting these companies in to do the coaching.
What’s the point?
Grassroots is on its arse
Any of these 1-1 companies teach defending?
Or is it just scanning a mannequin to then receive and take 10 seconds to curl a shot to the far corner of the net with no GK in?
#frauds
Man City fixtures for 2027/28
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We had a game Sunday grassroots game next to an academy training pitch.
Little awkward to find if you don’t know the area.
Got asked for directions 3 times, all 3 parents had to tell me their kid was playing for an academy, it’s like Tourette’s
Grassroots coaches can’t get a text back from a parent regards to availability 🙄
Academy side tell you you’ve got a match on the outside lane of the M1 at 4am and you are on it like a tramp on a Big Mac 😦
Odd
#grassrootsfootball
Secret grassroots coach retweeted
“There’s a big scramble now. Everyone has realised that, yes, £1m or £2m sounds really expensive as a fee when you sign an academy player, but they just have to be Championship level or above and you could make a huge profit. It’s a business within a business.”
The uneasy truce is over between the biggest academies in England.
For many years, there was an unofficial agreement between the big clubs in the Premier League that they would not try to sign players from each others’ academies. It was an agreement that was occasionally violated, but the ‘Big Six’ co-existed relatively peacefully.
Now, no player is off the table.
The Athletic has spoken to dozens of sources inside English academies and at player agencies to find out what is happening in academy recruitment and why there has been such an upsurge in players moving between big clubs.
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