With the pandemic still ongoing, European soccer has taken a heavy financial impact, and that burden was made ever clear by the executive vice-chairman of Manchester United Ed Woodward:
“As ever our priority is the success of [the team], but we need visibility of the impact across the whole industry, including timings of the transfer window, and the wider financial picture, before we can talk about a return to normality.”

With clubs going through furloughs and pay cuts from players and personnel, possible huge summer transfers that could have happened are just not a reality anymore. Here are some major what-ifs that could have happened, but were lost to recent events.