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The Heart of MP Coaching

Welcome to MP Coaching, founded by football luminary Mike Phelan and home to a dedicated team of experts like David Horrocks and Matt Burton. Our mission is to blend world-class football experience with pioneering coaching techniques, nurturing talent at all levels. From Mike’s expansive career across various top-tier roles to David’s analytical expertise and Matt’s customer-focused approach, we are united in our passion for football and commitment to excellence. Join us on a journey to redefine football coaching and development.

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The Heart of MP Coaching

Welcome to MP Coaching, founded by football luminary Mike Phelan and home to a dedicated team of experts like David Horrocks and Matt Burton. Our mission is to blend world-class football experience with pioneering coaching techniques, nurturing talent at all levels. From Mike’s expansive career across various top-tier roles to David’s analytical expertise and Matt’s customer-focused approach, we are united in our passion for football and commitment to excellence. Join us on a journey to redefine football coaching and development.

Mike Phelan has won almost every honor in the game and is unique to have achieved this across multiple roles as a Player, a Coach, an Assistant Manager, and a Manager.

A multiple Premier League winner, Champions League winner, FA Cup winner, Football League Cup winner, Charity Shield winner, World Club Trophy winner and Manager of The Month winner. Throughout this career he has tested himself against the best over many years including Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti, Jurgen Klopp, Thomas Tuchel and Jose Mourinho as a coach and many of their formidable players such as Lionel Messi and Zinedine Zidane on the field of play. Mike himself has also had the pleasure of coaching many past and present footballing royalty. Andrew Roberston, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Marcus Rashford and Jarrod Bowen to name a handful, and of course Mike was the trusted assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson over many years at the height of Manchester United’s footballing domination.

However, Mike Phelan’s knowledge and experience doesn’t just stop there. He is a coaching practitioner of extreme growth mindset with a serious interest in leadership, coaching and elite performance. In his continual quest for betterment Phelan has engaged with organisations such as Westpoint Military Academy, Sandhurst, Nike, Wall Street Financiers, Cadent Gas, and NASA to name but a few and he also currently works as a consultant and advisor to companies from various sectors such as Findel Education, Veo Technologies, Carleton University Canada (Sprott Business School) and Inspire Sports.

A true leader, a seasoned coach and a vastly experienced performer with the achievements and outcome to validate.

David is the former Head of Research and Development at Manchester United Football Club operating as a senior personnel reporting into the CEO, Director of Football, and owners. His responsibility being best in class operations across areas such as technology, the coaching process, performance analytics, science, psychology, and performance operations in elite environments.

Over the years David has engaged with many organisations such as British Cycling, Borussia Dortmund, The DFB, Milwaukee Bucks, Cricket Australia, London School of Contemporary Dance, Red Bull, Military and Inter Miami among others. Along with Mike, David is also a consultant to Findel Education, Veo Technologies, Carleton University Canada (Sprott Business School) and Inspire Sports and is currently running an employee health and wellbeing program for up to 6000 workers with Cadent Gas in conjunction with Whoop technologies. The early part of Davids career was spent in the corporate and government services world in technology with companies such as Cisco, Avaya and Samsung operating in Police, Banking, NHS and Local Government.

David is also a published scientist with peer reviewed papers in The International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, The Psychologist and The British Psychological Society Journal.

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