Spain
A football agent based in Madrid says there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to get a giggle out of him, even during lockdown. Every morning he picks up the papers and almost without fail there on the cover, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, is another name. Neymar, Haaland, Pogba, Lautaro and the rest. Another big, bombastic summer signing supposedly on his way to Real Madrid or Barcelona.
“It’s silly anyway a lot of the time,” the agent says, and now it reaches a whole new level. One front page ran the headline “” when there is no market; hardly anyone is doing deals at the moment and even once the season finishes they might still not. Clubs are only
