The people paying them are not part of the institutions they will be performing services for. It would be like me paying Adrian Newey however many euros it would have taken to keep him at Red Bull just because that is my favorite team. I am not affiliated with Red Bull. He would not be performing any specific services per my instruction. He would be staying there and doing whatever the team owners told him to do.
And if they are so clever in structuring deals, how does something like the Proctor fiasco happen?
I am not going to pretend to know all the details...or even care.
The athletes will end up doing something that promotes something. That's all it takes to be a payment for work done.
But at the end of it all, why is important?
