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How will coronavirus affect loan deals if club football season goes into summer?

Lots of unexpected changes will happen in the coming weeks and months due to the global slowdown created by the Covid-19 pandemic

Life as we knew it has been put on hold indefinitely due to the deadly novel coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic which has swept the planet and various aspects of football have been affected.

The games themselves, of course, have been suspended, with hopeful resumption dates mooted, and that has had a serious knock-on effect for the business of the sport, with revenue streams put into severe doubt.

League organisers are ultimately at the mercy of each government's response to the pandemic and it's difficult - even for expert epidemiologists - to put a hard timeline on when things will improve.