Club Brugge’s exciting draw in the Champions League attracted attention with them once again being seen as a club punching above their weight. Club Brugge has built a reputation for smart recruitment, developing young players and supporting them through its academy pipeline. That model has allowed it to compete sustainably, even against far larger opponents. Yet a strategy like this requires operational discipline as well as sporting ambition. Top clubs recruit internationally, negotiate across jurisdictions, and move significant sums across currencies. In many respects, they operate like mid-sized multinationals. The complexity is simply less visible to supporters. Transfers are one of the clearest examples. Deals are often completed under intense time pressure during short transfer windows, with multiple parties involved and payments moving across currencies and banking systems. In that environment, small inefficiencies can quickly become expensive. Foreign exchange costs ...