[Ben Jacobs] Tebas also confirms LaLiga looked at Conor Gallagher’s move to Atletico Madrid (€42m) and Joao Felix’s switch to Chelsea (€50m+€10m) for fair market valuation. He adds English clubs are doing mutually beneficial deals to “fix balances”.

This was the exact quote

La Liga president Javier Tebas:

🗣️ “We have reviewed the valuation of the operation between Joao Felix and Gallagher, and I’ll leave it at that.

But there are many transfers within English football involving player exchanges where there are many numbers made to fix balances and books.”

For anyone interested, here’s the [full article](https://www.givemesport.com/chelsea-transfer-news-summer-deals-gallagher-felix-reviewed-stamford-bridge/)

I find it quite hypocritical that Laliga allowed the Pjanic-Arthur swap (60m and 72m valuations respectively) and now they want to criticize other leagues.

I mean Gallagher’s valuation was fair and I’d say overall Felix was slightly overpriced but not massively so. So while it’s blatant what the clubs were trying to do, idk how you could do anything about this scenario

There’s always going to be a wide range of reasonable valuations for any player. The market is fast-moving and there are many different factors to consider. I would hate to be a regular tasked with the burden of trying to prove any of these transfer fees are outside a range of reasonableness.

It was fair