Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-16
The Window Ledger
€3.0m in, €0 out: the UAE Pro League's 2025/26 ledger across 41 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 90% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the UAE Pro League recorded 41 incoming moves. 4 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 37 (90%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€3.0m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€0
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€3.0m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
90%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarik Tissoudali | PAOK B | Khorfakkan Club | €1.7m |
| Kayque | FK Spartak Subotica | Bani Yas | €600k |
| Akram Nakach | AS FAR Rabat | Khorfakkan Club | €428k |
| Mahamadou Camara | RCA Zemamra | Bani Yas | €283k |
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