La Liga boss Tebas hopes fans can attend games before end of season

Spanish clubs are going to consider more direct swaps of players instead of big transfer payments given the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, the league president Javier Tebas claimed on Thursday.

“The transfer market will be subdued. It is clear that there will be fewer direct cash transactions. There will be more player swaps,” Tebas told media in video conference.

Tebas said he did not expect the Spanish league's transfer market to move more than 800 million euros (908 million dollars), compared to 3 billion euros (3.4 billion dollars) last summer.

La Liga is resuming on Thursday after three months when Sevilla and Real Betis meet in a hotly contested derby.

Games will be played without fans.

Tebas said he was hopeful that around “10 to 15 per cent of fans could be back in the stands” this summer, but Spain's government has ruled that out.