[eaenki]

you don't even have to pay the contractors to extract money if we're talking about a legit team, like say Chelsea, you can just buy a bunch of top players and the business will print more money and be valued more if you want to flip it.

[Macha]

Sure, at that point it's just running a business, rather than fraud or laundering which was the original question of how you would use a sports team to do that.