The training and development of player is important if football clubs are to fulfill their varied objectives. Some clubs spend significant resources on searching for player and subsequently on training them in the football academies and centres of excellence. The training and development of young players can take time and for this reason, clubs engage in the acquisition of players by buying their registrations on the so-called transfer market. However clubs go about acquiring their players, the resources needed to do so are very high. In addition, salary and wage costs further increase clubs’ expenditure on players. The rationale for this high expenditure on players, through transfer acquisition or wages, is understandable. Clubs need players to fulfill their main function of hosting football matches