Investors have already repriced the club. The market is repricing the player right now. The last layer still mispriced is the one that develops her. The value is there. The mechanism to pay for it is not.

The women’s game is being repriced in real time. In the rest of the world, the transfer fees that flow back into the youth clubs that developed the player create sustainable ecosystems and financial incentives for reinvestment into low-cost development programs. The player development system in the United States breaks down because of this missing piece. That is the critical void. Let’s understand and solve that systematically.