Nick Cain

Most marquee players just aren’t worth the money

by
The Rugby Paper Team
25 May 2020

THE marquee player debate highlights the dilemma that most Premiership owners face in terms of how to reconcile rampant self-interest with the greater good of the club game.
No sooner had Sale’s Steve Diamond fired a salvo at Bristol for fuelling wage inflation through their £1m-a-year deal with former All Black wing, Charles Piutau, than their owner Steve Lansdown picked up his pen.
In an open letter Lansdown argued that the Premiership should “foster and encourage ambition” by keeping the existing £7m salary cap, as well as the two marquee player exemption fr...

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