Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-16
The Window Ledger
€173m in, €163m out: Liga MX's 2025/26 ledger across 344 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 83% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, Liga MX recorded 344 incoming moves. 59 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 285 (83%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€173m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€163m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€9.7m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
83%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Saint-Maximin | Al-Ahli | América | €10.3m |
| José Paradela | Necaxa | CD Cruz Azul | €10.3m |
| Ángel Correa | Atlético | Tigres UANL | €8.0m |
| Isaías Violante | Toluca | América | €7.0m |
| Efraín Álvarez | Club Tijuana | Chivas | €6.8m |
| Bryan González | Pachuca | Chivas | €6.0m |
| Bryan González | CF Pachuca | Atlas Guadalajara | €6.0m |
| Nicolás Castro | Elche CF | Toluca | €5.0m |
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 2026-08-16Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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