What a first engagement looks like
We are working with a small number of founding partner clubs. This page is what that involves, what it costs you in time, and who it is not for.
Start with the audit
Three weeks. Eight to twelve players run through the four screening questions and scored where they clear them.
You receive a ranked shortlist with the index and breakdown for each scored player, a named limiting factor for each, and the players who were screened out along with the reason and what to do about them instead.
No intervention. It is the cheapest way to find out whether any of this is real before committing a training week to it.
€3,500. €1,750 for the first four founding partner clubs.
It is priced by time rather than by outcome, because three weeks of expert assessment across ten or so players is a thing we can stand over. Anything priced on outcomes would be a rate card with no cases behind it, and you would be right to ask what it was based on.
Then one player, one gate
Fourteen weeks door to door. One diagnosis week, twelve weeks of work, one week to write it up.
Before week one, we agree in writing what will change, by how much, by when, and on what measure. Someone with authority signs it. Then we report against it, including if we miss.
That signature is also the cheapest test of whether an engagement is going to work.
Engagements are priced per block and depend on whether the work is on one player or a small group. We will give you a number on a call rather than on a webpage, because the shape of the work changes the number and we would rather not quote you something that turns out to be wrong.
Founding partner terms
The first four clubs only, and we will say when that is gone.
Half of list price. In exchange the case gets published, the club is named, and a reference call is agreed before we start. Price protection on renewal for two seasons.
The published case includes the ones that do not work. If that is a problem, this is not the right arrangement.
What you supply
A named coach who owns it. One person, not a department. If nobody is named, the work has no owner and will not survive a fixture pile-up.
Training time inside the week you already run. Not additional sessions. Additional sessions get cancelled first, and they signal that the work sits outside the programme.
Video of those slots, and match video. A fixed camera is enough. Without video there is no record, and without a record there is no case.
A signature on the prediction, before the work starts.
Three ways to fit it into a week
Which one applies depends on what you have, and all three are legitimate.
Embedded. One slot inside existing squad training. This is the floor and it is what goes into the agreement, because it is the arrangement that survives a busy month.
Embedded plus one. A development session, plus a slot inside squad training later in the week. Where a development slot already exists, this is what we would recommend.
Full. A development session carrying individual, small group and unit work, with physical work where it fits, plus a specific slot inside the team session. Resource dependent, and worth knowing that combining physical and technical work in one block raises interference risk rather than lowering it.
Pre-season needs no special rule. Competition comes out of the weekly load, which changes the baseline and frees up time that was previously match day, so the cap moves on its own. Youth squads are the opposite case and we would not raise the ceiling for them, because a lighter training week is not the same as spare capacity.
Who delivers
Not us, past the first few weeks.
We lead at the start with your coach alongside. Then your coach leads and we supervise. By the last few weeks your coach is running it and we are reviewing the record remotely.
If your coach will not engage, the engagement will not work and no amount of external delivery fixes that. We would rather establish it early than discover it in week six.
Who this is not for
A club looking for a badge or a logo.
A club that will not commit to a measure in advance. This is the strongest single signal that an engagement will go badly.
A club entering a relegation run-in, or with a change of manager pending.
A club with no mechanism by which it benefits from the player improving.
A club that wants to buy the score without the work. The score on its own is the least valuable part of this.
What is live and what is not
The screening and scoring instrument is specified and running.
The practice design layer is specified and in pilot.
The comparable-based valuation runs where a comparable set exists, and reports that no projection is available where one does not.