could have been

[Scottishsingh]

Dear teacher,


I came across this sentence online below!

This time around, the 2023/2024 Champion League winner either Real madrid or Dortmund could have been paid a maximum total of 85.14 m euro, but that would have required the winning side to have had a perfect campaign from start to finish.

My question is about using "Could have been" I know that this is for degrees of possibility and probability in the past but this news was before the match which was going to be held on 01 june, 2024.

--how a writer used "Could have been" for future possibility and probability? Kindly help me understand!

-- Kindly help me understand on "to have had" on the sentence above as well

 

[emsr2d2]

As with your previous thread, you have failed to provide the source information. Please note that it is a legal requirement on the forum that you tell us the source and author of any text you did not write yourself. If you didn't make a note of that information when you noted down the text, you can't ask us about it. Writing "I came across this sentence online" is simply not sufficient.