The World Cup's Top 10 Price Tags: A Very Expensive Business Card
When player valuations get ranked like a leaderboard, who actually gets to grade "expensive"?
A valuation sheet is a business card — it carries the number, but it never profiles the player.
World Cups have never handed out goals by budget, and a nine-figure fee has never guaranteed a nine-out-of-ten performance.
Once the final whistle blows, the numbers go back to the spreadsheet, and the highlights go back to memory.