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.

 

[Scottishsingh]

Dear Teacher,

I read this on online news.
Here it goes!

*Last season, first -time winners Manchester City picked up around £80 million (£ 68.4m/$86.4m) in prize money during the tournament as a whole.

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

Overall there are several different ways in which sides participating in the competition can gain prize money. The biggest wedge of money (55%) of the total prize pot is distributed amongst the clubs as a reward for their results in the competition as outlined below in the table. The other 45% of the pool is split across the complete 32 group-stage participants in two separate ways.*

 

[emsr2d2]

I read this on online news.

You clearly didn't read the later comment on your other thread. You have not provided the source and author!

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