Soccer

Inflation - Players' Market Value/ Price

Age

Prime Age

some get better with age

Goalkeepers

27-30

Comparison to the market prices 10 years ago and NOW

Increase

Neymar Jr.

Ousmane Dembélé

Philippe Coutinho

Injury rates

Relatively high as a young player

Harder to recover from injury as players get older (30s)

Most common injuries

Hamstring injury

They get paid more

More competition between Clubs to get a certain player (more bidding)

Player's Market price is much higher now

Effects of Social Media

Clubs

Players

History

Country

English League (Premier League)

Itallian League (Serie A)

Spanish League (La Liga)

French Clubs (Ligue 1)

Number of titles the club have won

Number of European Cups they have won (eg. UEFA Champions League)

222 million euros

105 million euros

160 million euros

Known to be a more defensive oriented league

Known to be the most competitive league in the world

Many Top-tier clubs within the league

Does that effect players' performance? (Harder League)

Eg: Real Madrid have won 10 Champions league title

Does that make them the best European Team of all time?

Do players perform better when they transfer into a big club?

Or does that effect the player's performance negatively? (Peer pressure, high expectations)

Does that put pressure on the player?

Eden Hazard

100 million euros

The league is usually dominated by 1/2 club (s)

Do players score more goals in the league?

Home of 2 most popular clubs (Real Madrid and Barcelona)

Media hypes up players or downgrades them

If a player has a really bad game -) memes, news, statistics showing the certain player's poor performance

if a player has a good game-) eg: Ronaldo scores 5 goals, fans and media react and call him the greatest of all time, best goalscorer and statistics show how good he was in that match or season

Is it a hard league to score a lot of because all teams are very defensive?

Players performance

All time

By season

By country

Good/Great season

Bad/Horrible season

Reputation decreases

Players get memed

Market Value decreases

Market Value increases

Reputation increases and fans may hype the player

Player gets praised

Will be called in to join the national team

Low chance of being called in to join their national team

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Ankle sprain.

Knee sprain.

Calf strains.

Clavicle fracture.

Eg: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, CR7 etc.

Better with age

MORE EXPERIENCE!!!

World Cup/European World Cup/Olympics

Players will get more attention

Non-soccer fans watch these events

Non-soccer fans will recognize you if you put in a good performance

Eg. Almost Everyone knows Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar etc