The Anatomy of the Global Football Player Transfer Network: Club Functionalities versus Network Properties
Fig 2
Inequality of financial ability of professional clubs.
A: Distribution of annual club expenses in euros. B: Cumulative distribution of annual club expenses. Clubs are sorted in descending order by the transfer expense, and the percentage of total expense was plotted against the corresponding percentage of clubs. The dashed line denotes the situation where all clubs spend the same amount of money in the player transfer market. C: Gini coefficient of annual transfer expense, revenue and volume of the clubs.