The mediated professional soccer is a special economic domain. All those actors directly connected with the inner practice of the game – footballer, coaches or physiotherapists – have estimated market values. That’s why a large number of experts and organizations concern themselves with the appraisal of the aforementioned value. In the present study we are going to summarize the special literature concerning the football transfer market in order to develop an explicative model to estimate the transfer value which takes into account numerous social factors too besides the economic element which are in play in the variation of market values of football players.
Keywords: football; transfer market; migration; market value; explicative model; social factors; Romania
