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Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-14
The Window Ledger

€246m in, €426m out: the Eredivisie's 2025/26 ledger across 341 moves

What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 77% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Eredivisie recorded 341 incoming moves. 78 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 263 (77%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.

Spent
€246m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€426m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
−€181m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
77%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
PlayerFromToFee
Ruben van BommelAZ AlkmaarPSV€15.8m
Paul WannerBayern MunichPSV€15.0m
Oscar GloukhSalzburgAjax€14.8m
Raúl MoroReal ValladolidAjax€11.0m
Ko ItakuraMönchengladbachAjax€10.5m
Kasper DolbergRSC AnderlechtAjax€10.0m
Gonçalo BorgesPortoFeyenoord€10.0m
Sem SteijnFC TwenteFeyenoord€10.0m

A league ledger measures money moved, not quality bought. The share of business done without a fee is the number most often skipped, and it is usually the majority of it.

Transfer record, fees and market values: ACTUAL TRANSFER MARKET (actualtransfermarket.com). Analysis: ACTUAL SPORT INTELLIGENCE.

Confidence HighEvidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-08-14Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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