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If you’re serious about playing professionally in the UK or Europe, team training alone is NOT enough.

Most EPL academy players train 12–16+ hours per week in structured, high-intensity environments. That includes team sessions, gym work, recovery, and individual development.

If you’re outside a full-time academy system, you must add individual ball work on top of your team training.

Here’s the standard:

Minimum: 4–6 hours per week of focused individual ball work in addition to team sessions.

Serious/pro level: 6–10+ hours per week of structured, position-specific training on top of team training.

Not random drills. Purposeful work focused on:

✅ First touch under pressure

✅ Receiving across your body and scanning

✅ Position-specific passing patterns

✅ 1v1 attacking or defending

✅ Finishing (if it fits your position)

✅ Weak foot development

✅ Speed of execution and decision-making

If you train 3–4 times a week with your team (4–6 hours total) and do nothing on your own, you are not matching academy players.

It’s that simple.

If you’re not working with the ball almost every day, you are falling behind players who are.

By 16–17, professional clubs expect players to be technically sharp, physically ready, and tactically disciplined. That level comes from consistent, deliberate repetition.

Not once a week.

Not when you feel motivated.

Daily.

The question isn’t “Is 4–6 extra hours too much?”

The real question is: How badly do you want the opportunity?