Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-12
The Window Ledger
€33.2m in, €8.0m out: the UAE Pro League's 2025/26 ledger across 29 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 66% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the UAE Pro League recorded 29 incoming moves. 10 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 19 (66%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€33.2m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€8.0m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€25.2m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
66%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Banza | Braga | Al-Jazira | €8.5m |
| Pedro Malheiro | Trabzonspor | Al-Wasl | €6.1m |
| Willyan Rocha | CSKA Moscow | Al-Jazira | €5.0m |
| Ibrahim Adel | Pyramids FC | Al-Jazira | €4.3m |
| Serginho | Viborg FF | Al-Wasl | €3.5m |
| Adryelson | Lyon | Al-Wasl | €2.2m |
| Renato Júnior | Viborg FF | Al-Wasl | €1.5m |
| Adrian Șut | FCSB | Al-Ain | €1.4m |
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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