Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-12
The Window Ledger
€185m in, €121m out: the Russian Premier League's 2025/26 ledger across 342 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 75% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Russian Premier League recorded 342 incoming moves. 87 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 255 (75%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€185m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€121m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€64.1m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
75%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerson | Flamengo | Zenit S-Pb | €25.0m |
| Gedson Fernandes | Besiktas | Spartak Moscow | €20.8m |
| Jhon Jhon | RB Bragantino | Zenit S-Pb | €18.0m |
| Rubens | Atlético-MG | Dynamo Moscow | €9.0m |
| Román Vega | Argentinos Jrs. | Zenit S-Pb | €7.7m |
| Douglas Augusto | FC Nantes | Krasnodar | €6.5m |
| David Ricardo | Botafogo | Dynamo Moscow | €6.0m |
| Henrique Carmo | São Paulo | CSKA Moscow | €5.1m |
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 2026-08-12Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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