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In January Deloitte ranked United as having the fourth highest revenue in world football, based on the club's earnings of £651m from the previous year.

Since then, annual growth in average regular earnings, excluding bonuses, dropped to 4.8% in the three months to July, down from 5% in the previous three months and the lowest since May 2022.

Redford used much of his earnings to buy a ski resort in Utah, his wife Lola's home state, which he renamed Sundance after one of his most famous roles.

The deal doesn’t adjust either figure for inflation, so that could do part of the job of increasing Tesla’s adjusted annual earnings from the $16.6 billion it recorded last year.

September 2024's inflation data will not be released until October, but it is expected to be below average earnings for the relevant period, which means wages will be used to decide the state pension increase.