Super agent Mino Raiola will earn more from fixing the deal that took Paul Pogba to Manchester United than the entire playing budget of every League Two club.
Sportsmail's revelations on Tuesday about the mind boggling figures paid to Pogba and United team mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic were further proof of the gulf between the haves and have-nots of modern professional football.
But it was the eye-watering £41.39m fee due to the Italian transfer fixer that really raised eyebrows among managers and players in the bottom tiers of English professional football.
As Carlisle manager Keith Curle told us: 'For anybody to take that much from an individual transaction is embarrassing.