Totally agree - I think the money in the PL is distorting our view.
Here are the top transfers last year - of the top 20, 16 were paid by PL teams.
Worldwide top transfers in the season 25/26. The list ist pre-sorted by transfer fee and market value, where the higher value is used for sorting.
www.transfermarkt.co.uk
There are very, very few clubs that are going to be paying anything like the PL prices we see as normal at the moment, and even they are likely only paying them for world class players in their early 20s.
If our players want to go abroad, or we insist on selling them outside the PL, then the market is tiny, and nothing like as lucrative. It would not surprise me if Saudi started to look more appealing as the Summer wears on.