Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-16
The Window Ledger
€791m in, €256m out: the Saudi Pro League's 2025/26 ledger across 452 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 80% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Saudi Pro League recorded 452 incoming moves. 89 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 363 (80%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€791m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€256m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€534m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
80%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mateo Retegui | Atalanta | Al-Qadsiah | €61.8m |
| Darwin Núñez | Liverpool | Al-Hilal | €53.0m |
| Mohamed Simakan | Leipzig | Al-Nassr | €35.0m |
| João Félix | Chelsea | Al-Nassr | €35.0m |
| George Ilenikhena | Monaco | Al-Ittihad | €33.0m |
| Roger Fernandes | Braga | Al-Ittihad | €32.0m |
| Enzo Millot | Stuttgart | Al-Ahli | €30.0m |
| Kader Meïté | Stade Rennais | Al-Hilal | €30.0m |
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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