The N.Y. TIMES looks at how one website "helps determine the value of players" in global soccer's billion-dollar transfer market. Many of the numbers that make the transfer world go round "can be traced back to a place far removed from all that glamour and wealth: an unremarkable office building on a quiet, suburban street in Hamburg, Germany." They "come from the website Transfermarkt," which for years "has been trying to provide a guideline of roughly how much every individual player might cost, all the way from Messi to Mozambique." That work has "transformed Transfermarkt from a single point of light in soccer’s great digital constellation into something approaching a lodestar."
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