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Bamba struck inside nine minutes, Zinckernagel answered his own post, and Haile-Selassie sealed it late at Soldier Field.
Two weeks, no fee above €10.0M and an empty spender board — the transfer radar has never scanned this quiet.
The biggest deal of the last fortnight does not exist. That is not a metaphor. The radar swept the market and found nothing above €10.0M — no headline fee, no bidding war, no confirmation call at midnight. Fourteen days, and the biggest number on the board is zero.
The spender table is just as bare. No club has spent enough in the window to register among the big movers, which almost never happens. For a column built on fees and totals, this is the strange edition where the story is the silence between the numbers.
Quiet stretches happen in every window. They rarely look this clean. Clubs are either holding their budgets for the final days or waiting for someone else to move first. Either way, the radar stays on. The moment a fee crosses €10.0M, this column leads with it — and the quiet ends fast.
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