Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-17
The Window Ledger
€4,262m in, €2,908m out: the Premier League's 2025/26 ledger across 753 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 72% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Premier League recorded 753 incoming moves. 210 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 543 (72%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€4,262m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€2,908m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€1,354m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
72%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Isak | Newcastle | Liverpool | €145.0m |
| Florian Wirtz | Leverkusen | Liverpool | €125.0m |
| Hugo Ekitiké | Frankfurt | Liverpool | €95.0m |
| Benjamin Sesko | Leipzig | Man Utd | €76.5m |
| Bryan Mbeumo | Brentford | Man Utd | €75.0m |
| Nick Woltemade | Stuttgart | Newcastle | €75.0m |
| Matheus Cunha | Wolves | Man Utd | €74.2m |
| Antoine Semenyo | Bournemouth | Man City | €72.0m |
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 2026-08-17Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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