I don't know and I know that's the rumour that everyone was repeating, but I very much doubt that is actually true. It sounds good though. I would think about as much validity as most of the stories about Balloteli (which his agent was making up and feeding to the press)
Yup, but if you're a billionaire, or a billionaire company, it may be a lot to you and me, but it's not a lot in the overall scheme. They're still Dicks though, and have no sympathy whatsoever.