مقاله سال ۲۰۱۶

With millions of players and billions of fans, association football (―football‖ hereafter) is the world’s most popular sport. Because of its popularity, professional football teams generate enormous revenues; they are no longer just clubs but companies with shareholders and managers, sales and profits, and customers rather than fans. From a managerial perspective, the most important decisions that these ―football companies‖ (Amir & Livne, 2005) have to make concern which players to employ. As player transfers have a tremendous impact on a club’s chances for success (Pawlowski et al., 2010), researchers from various disciplines have long studied the factors that impact transfer fees (Frick, 2007).