As we have seen over the past 18 months, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global financial market, clubs will have to get creative if they are looking to move players on, or bring in new arrivals.
The transfer rumour mill is still turning but it is unlikely that any of Europe's top clubs will spend €100 million on one player this summer, as they have done in the past. Transfer values have shrunk, and clubs are cutting costs, but swap deals could be the salvation.
There's a few high-profile precedents from history (although it didn't work out that well) as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o traded between Barcelona and Inter Milan in 2009, along with a host of others over the years.