Football Leaks made itself unpopular again by revealing that Madrid did not want to make public Bale’s actual price tag

Football Leaks has hit the mainstream. The website, set up in September 2015 to “increase transparency in the game”, has enjoyed a series of coups over recent weeks, publishing the transfer agreement that brought Anthony Martial to Manchester United and the contract of Gareth Bale with Real Madrid.

The detail is intriguing. We now know that Bale was the most expensive transfer in history with a price tag of €100 million (and that Real didn’t want that number to become public for fear of upsetting Cristiano Ronaldo who had hitherto been the most expensive signing) and the astonishing performance-related bonuses that could take the transfer fee for Martial from £36 million to £61 million.

Who is behind the website, modelled on WikiLeaks? Nobody seems to