Secure Your Future and Retire A Millionaire
Taking Footballers From Pitch To Prosperity With Done-For-You Property Investment & Management Services
Life After Football Can Be Tough
As a pro football player, you’ve got all the perks of the job – a great income, a luxury lifestyle and the freedom to travel and do whatever you want…not to mention the glory of the game.
However, unlike most people, you don’t retire at 65. Instead, you’ve got 8-10 years at BEST before you’re done with football.
Without a solid plan in place to help you manage your wealth, you can easily fall into debt and financial distress.
Worse, unless you can figure out how to make your money work for you, you may have to downgrade your home and lifestyle and settle for a job you hate just to make ends meet.
Securing your financial future shouldn’t be so hard!
The good news is property investing is one of the best ways to secure your future and ensure you retire a millionaire.
It’s the perfect ‘invisible’ income stream that lets you build wealth for your future while protecting you and your family from financial distress.
We work with footballers just like you to...
Retire wealthy with true financial security
Have peace of mind for the future
Build a nest egg for your family
Maintain your luxury lifestyle
Experience time and money freedom
Secure your children’s future
Never worry about finances ever again
Financial Freedom For Footballers
Hey, I’m Christian Ribeiro, a former pro footballer turned property investor with a portfolio now worth millions.
Together with my business partner and property developer Jay Puddy, we take footballers from pitch to prosperity by helping them get on the property ladder, build wealth and secure their future with confidence.
Our goal is to help you build a property portfolio that increases your net worth and allows you to retire a millionaire.
With more than 25 years of combined experience buying, developing and managing more than 600 properties for our clients, you can sleep easy knowing we’ve got you covered.
Want to find out if property investing is for you?
Just click the button below to book a call with us and see how we can help you retire wealthy.
Alternatively, click HERE to download our free video series ‘5 Ways To Win With Your Wealth Off-Pitch’ – the perfect introduction to the world of property investing.
Why Property Investing?
Finding the perfect career after playing the field as a professional footballer can be really challenging and confusing.
When I retired at the age of 27 due to a knee injury, I didn’t have any additional skills I could fall back on.
My biggest worry was that I’d end up in a dead-end job, struggling to make ends meet and worse, having to downgrade my lifestyle substantially.
Sadly, it’s an all-too-common problem among football players who often end up in financial ruin and endless personal problems if they don’t have a career path they can confidently get into.
Property investing is one of the best ways to secure your income without having to sacrifice your lifestyle or end up in a job you hate.
Even better, with our complete, done-for-you service, you can focus on levelling up your game while we handle everything from start to finish.
It’s Better in a Team: Introducing Jay Puddy.
As you know, it’s hard to win when you’re not playing as a team.
That’s why I’ve teamed up with Jay Puddy, a property investor with over 23 years of experience in the Manchester property market.
Jay brings his extensive knowledge, expertise, and a reliable team of contractors, legal professionals, surveyors, and brokers who have been tried and tested over many years.
Together with his wife, Charlotte Puddy, they also bring their 5-star rated letting agency, Abode Property Management, into the fold, ensuring your assets are successfully managed for the long term.
Jay has walked the path we aim to guide you on. He’s built a multi-million-pound property portfolio in Manchester and is now enjoying the lifestyle benefits that property investment can offer.
For more about Jay’s professional background, visit his LinkedIn profile here.
The Ideal Invisible Income Stream With An Average ROI of 150%!
Buy-to-let properties are a great long-term investment opportunity, giving you financial security for the future, and making a great exit plan for when you leave the game.
It’s the perfect ‘invisible’ income stream that produces an average return of 150% in 5-10 years’ time – a fantastic investment!
We call it an ‘invisible income stream’ as we deal with everything on your behalf so you don’t have to.
From sourcing the best properties and finding tenants, to managing and maintaining the property… we can take care of it all with our 100% hands-free, done-for-you service.
We even have a ‘virtual landlords’ service to take care of tenants, so you can focus on your game. In fact, with our help, you don’t need any prior knowledge to buy your first property or get involved in managing or maintaining it – unless you really want to!
Click the button below to book a call with us and see how we can help you retire a millionaire.
From Net To High Net Worth - Here’s How To Build Your Portfolio
If you want to become wealthy as a property investor, we can help you get there in 5-10 years – ready for when you retire.
Here’s how it works:
1. Book A Call – Discuss your goals with us so we can help and advise you of your next steps.
2. Match To Millionaire Roadmap – We’ll work with you to create a solid financial plan for retirement so you can face the future with confidence!
3. Stress-Free Investing – Get started with your first property 100% hands-free! We’ll take care of everything and keep you updated regularly so you can focus on your game.
Most of our clients purchase 3-5 homes per year, giving them a substantial portfolio that grows year on year once they’re ready to retire.
Interested in securing your future? Just click the button below to talk to us today.
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I hope this hits home with a number of you listening 🤝⚽️
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Latest flip project sold 🤝
Bought off-market through one of my sourcing channels. 2026 we are going to do a lot of trades and flips, so this was a solid start to the year.
Circa £35,000-40,000 profit from a relatively light refurb (which is rare for us). Those funds go straight into the next project as we continue to work through our pipeline.
Over half the funds have been sent to our solicitors of the next purchase, ready to complete tomorrow. Pretty good timing!
Now to get our footballers projects over the line and continue to build everyone’s portfolios ready for life after the game ⚽️
Keep stacking assets 💯
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Stack Assets!! 🤝
Make intelligent decisions. Acquire assets using data and manage them with skill for the long term. That’s how you build a bullet proof quality property portfolio, that helps pay you an income, grow your net worth and uses leverage to get your money working harder.
Be an athlete with assets.
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Football will retire you.
You need to accept that. It is inevitable. So you best prepare for life after the game, whilst you still can.
You have a small window of opportunity to make the most of all the sacrifices you have given to be in the top 0.1% of sportsmen.
Trust me, when it’s all over, no one will be coming to save you. It’s all on you. So get stacking assets and start securing both your family and your own long term futures 🤝 I’m rooting for you all.
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Quick trade deal ⚡️
This purchase was part of a portfolio purchase. We decided to trade it on to release a chunk of funds for our pipeline commitments.
We are constantly having to balance our trading business with our investment business. I would to be able to hold everything we buy, but the reality of running a business is that cashflow management is key.
Our business is built on property investing. We don’t just talk about it. We are actively working as hard as we can to be as successful as possible for our footballer clients and ourselves 🤝
If you’re interested in watching how our business develops, drop my page a follow!
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Our 2025 summary. I’m really proud of our team’s effort this year as we continue to build long term security, wealth & freedom for our ⚽️players and ourselves -
🔹63 units purchased in Greater Manchester. The best market in the UK 🤝
🔹Valued at circa £8.45m!!
🔹Biggest portfolio purchase to date of 31 units
🔹Finally completed a 14 unit block refinance at £1.9m and left 2 commercial units unencumbered (£350,000) on top of that
🔹Sold 5 units. Including a land title split which was a first for me. We have more than this in pipeline already to sell/trade going into 2026
🔹£4m-£5m of private funding towards purchases and we have been gradually repaying those sums through refinances and sales. Big thank you to our investors 🤝
🔹Grown our team with our project manager and asset manager alongside our lettings team ready to continue to scale
🔹Built relationships with surveyors and mortgage lenders to help progress refinance applications.
🔺Faced many challenges on refurbs and conveyancing to get projects over the line. Plenty of additional costs throughout the year. Delays and variations being hugely costly, some out of our control, some of our own doing. Always learning.
2025 has been a whirlwind. It’s had tonnes of difficulties and many times we have had to put in serious hours of planning and problem solving...not to mention the invoices we’ve faced to help solve them!
We have had a big year. 2024 was a year of trading. 2025 was more of a portfolio building year. I think 2026 will be more of a trading year combined with some portfolio purchases. For our ⚽️players, I hope to find more time to continue to help grow your asset ownership and get you all in the mindset of stacking assets. We are all on our own path to take control of our own futures. I hope we all win.
Behind the scenes, being a father has been the most wonderful experience and I constantly remind myself to savour every day. I love my team.
I want to wish the best of luck to all everyone for 2026. Write down your dreams. Put in the hours and go chase your goals! I’m rooting for you all 🤝
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Buying properties at scale does give you some powerful advantages.
When you’re buying consistently for yourselves and for your football clients, you start to build a database of valuations, surveyors, lenders, agents, contractors and much more.
All of this combined allows you to continually grow and improve your business/service/knowledge. The main challenge becomes how to maintain it and continually grow.
I love helping our players elevate their investing strategies by leveraging our skills/experience/teams. I believe we can all win and be successful at taking control of our own futures. That’s ultimately all of our dreams.
I will continue to share our experiences of building this business as we continue to stack assets from stacking days of consistent work.
There is no secret. It’s putting in the reps. Learn from mistakes. Compounded day after day.
I hope everyone has a 2026 they are all striving for! 🤝
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It’s all about the team 🤝
These buildings and portfolios are a huge team effort. Everyone has to pull together to make sure we deliver a great product/service for our clients… our tenants! We are constantly upgrading our units and improving all things on site. Bringing these rents back to market values is vital to ensure the assets are continually invested in.
Our asset management teams are experienced and we have delivered a huge uplift on the rent roll of this portfolio at ultra fast speed.
It’s because it’s not our first rodeo.
Our systems work. They’re battle tested. Not to say there aren’t challenges, but we always work hard to overcome them.
When I hear people say that they get into property for passive income, I know they must have limited experience. This is a business and needs to be treated as such.
Looking after these assets year after year is what will create huge equity and consistent income for our footballers and ourselves as we continue to strive to secure our financial futures 🤝
Take control of your own financial future. Stack assets 🏘️
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