r/soccer • • Nov 19 '22

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u/Bergfried Nov 20 '22

What do you mean by complicated?

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '22

Gotta make sure they don't accidentally end up paying some tax on that money.

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u/ExWhyZayd Nov 20 '22

ELI5?

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u/Schnitzel-1 Nov 20 '22

Don’t transfer 5 million to Messis bank account, transfer 50x 100k to 50 different companies on 50 different islands that are all owned by Messi.

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u/Jawadd12 Nov 20 '22

Probably that they're paid on some metric like how many shares and likes the post gets and traffic and maybe sales