What the crowd rated

Football transfer fees: fair, or too far?

The summer transfer window is open and clubs are making some big-money signings. We want to know what you make of the money in modern football.

38%They are good value for top clubsQuestion 1

38%Age and long-term potentialQuestion 2

Question by question

Question 1Pick one

What do you make of top transfer fees?

They are good value for top clubs38%409

They have gone too far27%287

They are about right25%264

I don't follow transfers closely11%116

Question 2Pick multiple

What justifies a big transfer fee for you?

Voters chose more than one answer, so these shares add up to more than 100%.

Age and long-term potential38%411

Goals and assists24%254

Marketing value and shirt sales23%245

Trophies and big-game experience20%218

Position and how rare the player is20%216

Other (tell us)2%22

Who answered, and how we count itSampling, free-text handling and full methodology1.1k

Verified humans

1.1k

Every ballot is one World ID holder. No bots, no repeat voting, no weighting applied.

Margin at 95%

±3.0 pts

Sampling error for this many ballots. The crowd is self-selected, so this is not a representative panel.

Written-in answers

Summarised into themes by machine, then reviewed. Individual responses are never shown.

Aggregate results from verified voters. Free-text answers are summarised into themes; individual responses are kept private and never shown. A read-only record of what World ID holders expressed in our polls — not VoxPop predictions, and not financial advice.

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