Der Spiegel, the German news magazine leading the consortium that began publishing parts of the second instalment of the Football Leaks data dump on Friday night, says there is more to come. Which is a good thing because, with a modicum of reflection, what we have seen thus far has been somewhat underwhelming considering the efforts of 80 journalists sifting through more than 70 million documents and 3.4 terabytes (I assume that’s a lot) of data. At the very least it’s certainly not on a par with the first batch of revelations, which included details of Cristiano Ronaldo’s hush-money payments and the commissions paid to Paul Pogba’s agent, Mino Raiola.

First, a word on where this information comes from. Football Leaks is the