While Ainsley Maitland-Niles, an Arsenal player, lives in a £700,000 apartment, his mother claims she is homeless and sleeps in a ten-foot metal storage container.

Jule Niles, 38, said the football player, who earns £30,000 a week, declined to act as a guarantor so she could secure rental housing.

She must elude security at the Big Yellow Storage warehouse in order to spend the night in the icy container, even though he and her brother Cordi live in an opulent mansion.
She was chilly and alone there on Christmas Day, spending it before lunch at a homeless center nearby.

In an attempt to hide the fact that she has nowhere to go, she now spends her days sitting in coffee shops or the neighborhood library to stay warm. She also pays £2 to take a shower at a nearby swimming pool.

Jule revealed that she moved into the box three months ago following the breakdown of her romance with the twenty-year-old Ainsley, who is valued at £15 million.
‘It’s a metal container without any windows or carpet,’ she stated. There are no restrooms or laundry facilities.

“My son Ainsley’s wages of two weeks or two months could buy me a flat.”

However, the money has gone to his head, leaving me in this predicament.

“I live in a storage unit and am homeless, and my son plays for Arsenal.”

It’s not a house. I understand what it’s like to be able to take a shower, clean your teeth, and relax in your own space.I miss everything, but my family is the thing I miss the most.

It’s awful. All I want to know is what went wrong.

Jule said she is constantly afraid that workers at the warehouse will discover she is sleeping in the container and throw her out into the open.

“I wait until everyone has left and slip into the unit when it gets dark,” the woman stated. It breaks my heart.

The temperature hasn’t been above freezing for days, and the area is blanketed in snow. I’ve heard that on Thursday night, a homeless man passed away here.

Seated on a simple mattress on the floor of the container, Jule described how she raised Ainsley and charity worker Cordi in council homes and makeshift lodgings in and around the East London borough of Ilford.

There are family photos all around her, including a few worn-out ones of Ainsley when she was a toddler playing football.

His initial contracts with the team and pictures of him smiling while signing documents are crammed into boxes.

When the boys were young, Jule recalled how she was occasionally so impoverished that she had to go without food so they could eat, and she frequently thought about stealing food.

When Ainsley was six years old, scouts from Arsenal noticed him and he signed up for the academy.

When he made his debut for The Gunners against Galatasaray in the Champions League in December 2014, at the age of 17, it seemed as though all of her efforts had paid off.

He made his Premier League debut four days later in a 4-1 triumph over Newcastle United.

“I want to thank my family and God for putting me here,” he uttered.

“I think I’ll frame it and give it to my mum,” he replied when asked what he would do with his match shirt.

Ainsley, an Arsenal midfielder, winger, or right defender, has participated in nine league games and eight European matches this season.


The youthful player, who has represented England at the Under-17 and Under-21 levels, is wanted by the North London side on a long-term deal that could quadruple his £1.5 million salary annually.

Right now, he and 23-year-old Cordi reside in a brand-new neighborhood in affluent Finchley, North London.

In Hertfordshire, in an industrial area just off the M25, sits Jule’s little padlocked crate.

Upon Ainsley’s professional success, he first covered the rent on a three-bedroom house close to Arsenal’s Hertfordshire training facility for himself, Jule, and Cordi.


But during a meeting to talk about Ainsley’s future in March 2015, Jule got into a heated argument with certain employees.


She was detained after it was alleged that she had a violent altercation with Dick Law, the club’s senior negotiator. After Jule was freed, the cops did nothing.

Ainsley went on loan to Ipswich the following year.