Yahoo Sports reports: Spend five minutes scrolling through social media during the transfer window and you could be forgiven for thinking football has become little more than a global stock exchange. Players are reduced to assets, clubs to investment vehicles, agents to traders and supporters to spectators in a financial drama played out by people whose interests rarely extend beyond the next contract.
sports | sports | Yahoo Sports | June 27, 2026 12:25 PM
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Spend five minutes scrolling through social media during the transfer window and you could be forgiven for thinking football has become little more than a global stock exchange. Players are reduced to assets, clubs to investment vehicles, agents to traders and supporters to spectators in a financial drama played out by people whose interests rarely extend beyond the next contract.
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