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Bamba struck inside nine minutes, Zinckernagel answered his own post, and Haile-Selassie sealed it late at Soldier Field.
Fourteen days, zero transfers above €10.0M — the quietest fortnight the market has produced.
The market has gone silent. Fourteen days have passed without a single transfer crossing the €10.0M line — no headline fees, no big spenders, no deals worth leading the column. Zero moves at that level is not a slow week; it is a full stop.
The pattern matters as much as the number. When the biggest spenders list sits empty for a fortnight, clubs are either holding their budgets, waiting on sales, or keeping negotiations behind closed doors until terms are ready. Quiet does not mean inactive — it means unfinished business.
For now, the column has no deal to open on, and that absence is the story. History says these dead patches end abruptly, often with two or three deals landing inside the same 48 hours. Watch for the thaw: one accepted bid or one signed deal, and a fortnight of silence turns into a scramble. Until then, the ledger reads zero.
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