The biggest move of this summer transfer window might be a prolific Bundesliga attacker going to the Premier League. That never works out, right? (Except for all the times it has.)
In their oft-updated book, "Soccernomics," authors Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski laid out a pretty strong statistical case: Though team wages are extremely predictive of team success, the amount teams spend in the transfer market has almost no correlation to success. It's a maddening thing to realize, considering how much time we spend obsessing over the transfer market.
And yet, it makes sense, doesn't it?