European football dazzles with world-record transfers and eye-catching fees, but beneath the spectacle lies a quiet structural fault line that threatens both sporting performance and financial stability.
That imbalance β how clubs spend across positions β is at the heart of Taner Karamanβs latest research, a study he says reveals the sportβs most overlooked weakness.
Karaman, ATVβs Content Manager and author of Financial Governance and Transfer Policies in Football: A Positional Analysis of Expenditures in Europeβs Top Leagues (IJOSS), told Daily Sabah (DS) that the gameβs obsession with attackers has created a skewed investment model with long-term consequences.
His decade-long look into football economics paints a picture of an industry wildly enthusiastic about forwards and midfielders, yet stubbornly reluctant to value defenders and goalkeepers on par.
βItβs not just the total money spent,β Karaman said. βItβs the distribution.
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