> The money in sports allows for people to focus on it and perform at the highest levels possible and compete against others who also have this same focus. Advertising is what allows for this to happen.

Erling Haaland gets half a million a week. His contract is worth £260m.

These guys take the money because it's on offer to them, and fair play to them.

But I don't think they'd decide not to play football and go off to do something else if he were to "only" get, say £5.2m over 10 years instead (£10,500 per week).