A discreet, week-on-week chauffeur arrangement for first-team players, agents and family principals across the North-West clubs. Same chauffeur. Training, treatment, fixtures, family. Encrypted itineraries. Zero social media. The kind of relationship the gate-staff at the training ground know by registration plate.
For first-team players
This is not a chauffeur job, it is an arrangement — one car, one chauffeur, the full season. Training in the morning. Treatment in the afternoon. The drop-off at home. The pickup for the away coach on Friday.
The work is built around training cycles, fixture rotation and recovery windows. The chauffeur knows the back-of-house entry to Carrington, the staff entrance at the AON Complex, the gate at Cobham. He knows who waits and who walks; what's said in the cabin and what isn't. By the third week he has the morning coffee on the right armrest before the door opens.
The point is continuity. The same vehicle, the same registration, the same person. Family movements run through the same arrangement — the partner's school run, the relatives flying in from abroad, the off-season holiday transfer. One number, one chauffeur, one PO settled monthly.
A typical week
An indicative week from a Premier League cycle — a midweek European fixture, a weekend league game. Same registration plate every day; the family movements are run through the same line.
Carrington at 09:30. Recovery slot at the city clinic 14:00, home for 16:00. Wife to school at 15:15.
Training at 09:00, gym at 14:00. Brand fitting in town at 17:30 — arrived through the back-of-house at the boutique.
Hotel at noon for team meeting. Run to airport at 14:00. Family follows in a second car at 15:30. Match abroad.
Manchester Airport, 11:00. Home for 12:30. Treatment slot at 16:00. Quiet evening — no movement after 19:00.
Brief at the training ground. Press obligations 13:00–15:00. School run; dinner at home, family delivered, partner picked up at 22:30.
To stadium 90 minutes before kick-off. Family delivered to box. Post-match: separate route, separate timing, no waiting at the gate.
Optional. Family run to the lakes; the chauffeur reads the morning paper from the front seat.
How we work
The unwritten parts of the brief that don't usually appear on a chauffeur company's marketing page — but that agents and player liaison officers ask about first.
The same person every day. He learns the routine, the preferences, the people who walk straight to the car and the people who don't.
Standard R5 NDA at point of joining; club-specific NDAs added at the start of the arrangement if your liaison requires it.
No "driving today" stories, no Instagram, no Threads. Ever. The chauffeur is invisible by design.
Daily plans pushed by encrypted channel. No WhatsApp groups. No accidental forwards from a family chat to a teammate's friend.
Internal dispatch references the plate, not the principal. The R5 office is briefed on a need-to-know basis — even within the team.
One PO per month, by chauffeur, by hour. Single line on the agency invoice. No itemised journey-spam in the principal's email.
What's included
The arrangement is the product. The components below are not upgrades or add-ons — they are how the work runs by default.
One named driver assigned to your principal at start of season. Continuity is not negotiable for this arrangement.
Partner, parents, visiting relatives, agent. All run through the same arrangement, the same chauffeur, the same monthly invoice.
The car is yours from the start of the cycle. We don't "reassign" for a higher-paying client mid-week.
You speak to the same office contact every time. No call centres, no rotating desks, no ticketing systems.
Holiday transfers, pre-season camp logistics, family runs in June and July — same arrangement, same rate, no "peak" loading.
Not a marketing line — the actual deliverable. The chauffeur disappears into the routine. Nobody outside the family knows we are involved.
Clubs & geography
R5 is Manchester-based. We work with players, agents and player-liaison teams across the principal North-West clubs and through the ranks of academies, women's first teams and reserves.
Fleet pairing
Most arrangements run on a single Range Rover or V-Class held against the principal — the family car for school runs and treatment slots; the team-move vehicle for visiting relatives.
The default. Privacy glass, tinted to spec, presence without conspicuousness — the morning coffee on the right armrest by the third week.
Read about the Range Rover →
Visiting relatives, the airport pickup for the in-laws, the move to the country at half-term. The same chauffeur, a larger car for the day.
Read about the V-Class →
Pre-season camps, off-season family travel, the box-to-airport move with the entourage. Cabin built for long, quiet hours.
Read about the Sprinter →"The lads sleep in the back. That's the test."An R5 chauffeur, in his fourth season with a first-team player
Questions
All three, depending on the brief. Most retainers are arranged through the agent or the player liaison officer at the club; the principal and the chauffeur build the working relationship from there. Settlement runs through the agency or the family office, whichever the principal prefers.
Yes. There is no R5 livery, no roof sign, no "chauffeur" badge. Privacy glass to specification on the Range Rover; tinted to spec on the V-Class and Sprinter. The cars look like family cars because, for the season, they are.
The chauffeur is assigned at start of season and held against the principal across the diary. Sickness or annual leave is covered by a named second who has already met the principal — we don't introduce strangers mid-week.
Yes. Stadium drop-offs, family delivery to the box, post-match collection, away-coach connections. We work with club security ahead of the day; the family route is independent of the player's route by default.
Booking entries reference the registration plate and a PO number, not the principal's name. Office staff are briefed on a need-to-know basis. We do not discuss client work outside the office and we never feature client moves on social media.
Yes — in fact most do. The principal's car runs to the training cycle; a second car covers the partner's day. Same chauffeur company, same monthly invoice, separate operationally.
R5 Executive Travel · for first-team players
Arrangements are set up by phone or in person, never via online form. We'll come to the agency or the player's home to discuss the brief.