The Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19) on Player Salaries, Transfer Fees, and Net Transfer Expenses in the English Premier League

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Quansah ◽  
Bernd Frick ◽  
Markus Lang ◽  
Kieran Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Premier League ◽  
Transfer Fees ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Net Transfer

scholarly journals The impact of investors on transfer fees in the English Premier League: A study of the ownership structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3, special issue) ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Lukas Richau ◽  
Florian Follert ◽  
Monika Frenger ◽  
Eike Emrich
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Premier League ◽  
European Football ◽  
Transfer Fees ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Positive Effect

Transfer fees in European football have experienced a rapid increase in the past years. Simultaneously, an increasing number of domestic and recently foreign investors — who are assumed to further increase team spending in European football — have entered the football market by becoming club owners. In light of these developments, fears associated with an increasing influence of foreign (majority) investors from the financial as well as the emotional fan perspective have increased. Given the rather limited number of empirical studies focusing on the impact of investors on transfer fees, we shed further light on this topic. Based on a data sample including transfer fees, player characteristics, player performance and team performance from 2012–2013 to 2018–2019 for the English Premier League, we estimate OLS regressions and quantile regressions to analyze the effects of ownership concentration and investor origin on the amount of individual transfer fees. While we do not find strong evidence that ownership concentration increases the willingness to pay, we find fairly consistent results that foreign investors are willing to pay a premium compared to domestic investors. Our results also indicate that especially foreign investors who own a majority share of a club have a positive effect on transfer fees for the upper quantiles.

scholarly journals The impact of English Premier League broadcasts on Danish spectator demand: a small league perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gjersing Nielsen ◽  
Rasmus K. Storm ◽  
Tor Georg Jakobsen
Keyword(s):  
Premier League ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League

You don't know what you're doing! The impact of managerial change on club performance in the English Premier League

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart W. Flint ◽  
Daniel J. Plumley ◽  
Robert J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Premier League ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League

scholarly journals Video kills the sentiment—Exploring fans’ reception of the video assistant referee in the English premier league using Twitter data

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0242728
Author(s):  
Otto Kolbinger ◽  
Melanie Knopp
Keyword(s):  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Classification Problems ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
Negative Sentiment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League

Evaluative research of technological officiating aids in sports predominantly focuses on the respective technology and the impact on decision accuracy, whereas the impact on stakeholders is neglected. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the immediate impact of the recently introduced Video Assistant Referee, often referred to as VAR, on the sentiment of fans of the English Premier League. We analyzed the content of 643,251 tweets from 129 games, including 94 VAR incidents, using a new variation of a gradient boosting approach to train two tree-based classifiers for text corpora: one classifier to identify tweets related to the VAR and another one to rate a tweet’s sentiment. The results of 10-fold cross-validations showed that our approach, for which we only took a small share of all features to grow each tree, performed better than common approaches (naïve Bayes, support vector machines, random forest and traditional gradient tree boosting) used by other studies for both classification problems. Regarding the impact of the VAR on fans, we found that the average sentiment of tweets related to this technological officiating aid was significantly lower compared to other tweets (-0.64 vs. 0.08; t = 45.5, p < .001). Further, by tracking the mean sentiment of all tweets chronologically for each game, we could display that there is a significant drop of sentiment for tweets posted in the periods after an incident compared to the periods before. A plunge that persisted for 20 minutes on average. Summed up, our results provide evidence that the VAR effects predominantly expressions of negative sentiment on Twitter. This is in line with the results found in previous, questionnaire-based, studies for other technological officiating aids and also consistent with the psychological principle of loss aversion.

scholarly journals Spectator Demand, Uncertainty of Results, and Public Interest

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Cox
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Demand Uncertainty ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Premier League ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Uncertainty Of Results

This article tests the impact of match outcome uncertainty on stadium attendance and television audiences of English Premier League football. The method accounts for different measures of outcome uncertainty, an issue identified as a potential source of discord between existing evidence. Results show that more certain matches are preferred by spectators at the stadium yet more uncertain matches are preferred on TV spectators. Thus, a change in revenue sharing polices aimed at promoting a more uncertain match may affect both TV and stadium demand in opposing directions.

scholarly journals You’re getting sacked in the morning: managerial change in the English Premier League

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart William Flint ◽  
Daniel Plumley ◽  
Robert Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Performance Outcome ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Ethical And Legal Issues ◽  
Employment Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
At Will

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight and encourage consideration of the ethical and in some instances legal implications of managerial change in the English Premier League (EPL) which often gets overlooked and sidestepped by clubs. Design/methodology/approach – Extant literature relating to managerial change is identified and discussed to provide the foundations of the discussion of whether managerial change in the EPL which is primarily focused on performance outcome, is neglecting ethical and legal issues. Findings – The loophole that exists in the Employment Rights Act (1996) allows clubs to instantly dismiss a manager and consequently not see out their notice period as agreed in their contract or the statutory notice period. Whilst legally clubs are at will to act in this manner, the instability of EPL management evident today appears to have taken away the rights of an employee. Research limitations/implications – Greater consideration of the current managerial change practices in EPL from an ethical and legal perspective appears warranted. The incomparable rights that a player and a manger have relating to their tenure at a club seem somewhat unfair. Originality/value – Presents thought-provoking information relating to managerial change in the EPL which appears to have been overlooked in the literature to date which primarily focuses on the impact of change on performance.

scholarly journals The undervalued set piece: Analysis of soccer throw-ins during the English Premier League 2018–2019 season

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412199144
Author(s):  
Joseph Antony Stone ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Anthony Barry
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Defensive Strategy ◽  
Performance Preparation ◽  
Premier League ◽  
And Performance ◽  
First Contact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Mean Time

Set pieces in soccer (i.e., free kicks and corners) have been examined in detail and are a common focus for coaches during training and performance preparation. However, limited evidence is available on the impact of throw-ins on soccer performance and if coaches should dedicate time in training towards this specific set piece. Therefore, this research aimed to firstly examine if throw-in performance is linked with soccer performance, and secondly the effect throw-in direction and length has on first contact success rate, possession retention, mean time in possession and shot creation. 16,154 throw-ins from 380 English Premier League matches during the 2018–2019 season were analysed. Higher final league position was correlated to increased throw-in first contact success and possession retention. 83% of throw-in’s resulted in a successful first contact, 54% resulted in possession being retained and 8.8% of throw-ins led to a shot at goal from the possession achieved after a successful first contact. Throw-in’s which went backwards or laterally in direction resulted in increased first contact success, retaining of possession, and shot creation. The least efficient throw-in was forwards and long, which resulted in both reduced first contact success and possession retention. Findings highlight, that throwing the ball laterally or backwards should be a focus for coaches and players during attacking training. In contrast, a team’s defensive strategy should reduce the opportunities to throw backwards or laterally with a higher press and look to force a long forward throw-in, therefore, increasing the likelihood of winning possession and counter attacking.

scholarly journals The impact of different standards of opponents on observed player performance in the English Premier League

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athalie Redwood-Brown ◽  
Christopher Bussell ◽  
Harmeet Singh Bharaj
Keyword(s):  
Premier League ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
English Premier League
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