Football around the world has been suspended during the global pandemic and with no indication of what it may resume, several clubs have expressed concern over their immediate financial future.
With television rights revenues, gate receipts and competitions prize money no unavailable, clubs are set to lose out on millions over the coming months.
But Fabio Paratici, the sporting director of Italian giants Juventus, feels the draft system could be the way forward that has been used so effectively in professional basketball.
"There will be lots of trades, a situation that will bring football closer to the NBA," Paratici told TuttoSport.
Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert claimed that "tens of thousands of jobs" are at stake and that more than half of the 36 clubs making up the upper two tiers of German football could be erased from the landscape.
However, Paratici took a different view, however, and said that some clubs will emerge from the situation in good shape.
"It's also likely that some of the clubs, for example in Germany, may benefit from the overall situation of crisis as they have a more solid economy than others."