About the series

Most football coverage circles the same dozen leagues. Market Reports goes the other way — into the markets that move careers and money but rarely make the headlines. Ecuador's second division. The Uzbek transfer corridor. The agent landscape in markets that don't yet have one.

The method follows Modelos: read what is there, in primary sources; map the structure; name what the headlines miss. Empirical where possible. Contrarian where useful. Not punditry. Dissection.