Introduction
Globalisation affects the football industry as a whole, just like any other economic sector. Professional football clubs across Europe have to factor in and deal with various issues to attract the best players to compete in the European Champions’ League and Europa League.
The reputation and the attractiveness of the major Football Leagues in Europe may by themselves attract the most valuable players in every country. But sport is not all. The impact of the domestic tax rules and social burden of each major European country may also be an attractive aspect for some players, or on the contrary may generate severe discrepancies and create competition hurdles for some clubs in certain countries.
The international law firm Eversheds LLP has recently conducted a survey on behalf of the French Professional Football Clubs Union (Union des Clubs Professionnels de Football -UCPF) to analyse and compare the tax and...
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