Exciting transfer window will only exacerbate women’s football’s wealth gap

Alexis Putellas leads a host of stars expected to arrive in the WSL but smaller clubs will still struggle to keep paceThe whistle has blown on the 2025-26 season for the vast majority of women’s teams around the world, and attention now turns to the hullabaloo of the transfer window and another summer of rising wages, transfer fees and agents fees.This summer’s activity is likely to see the gap between the haves and the have-nots widen further. Last summer there was an 83.6% increase in global spending on transfer fees…