Warrington Wolves • Re: Luther Burrell
Asgardian13 wrote:
In the heady days of the 1970s league clubs would sign talented Welsh RU players on big salaries (for the time) who had never played rugby league at all. One of two, including backs like Jonathan Davies, John Devereaux, John Bevan, Alan Bateman etc didn't do too badly............................
In the heady days of the 1970's there was no salary cap - if a club could afford to take the risk, they took the risk.
If we could sign a RU player on nil salary cap for 4 years, great, go ahead. Unfortunately I think someone like Burrell will want £200k+ easy. In year one that's not an issue as he wont count on the cap, but in year two he'll probably have the same cap value as someone like Ratchford. I just don't see how it can be considered a sensible move - unless I am grossly exaggerating his potential RU earnings.
EDIT: The most intriguing nugget of information being that the average wage is 15% higher in the Aviva Premiership, at £200,000
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/watch-pl ... -vs-pro14/
Looks like £200k isn't too far off. Considering he was playing International games a couple of years back, I assume his current salary is above average?
Statistics: Posted by Alffi_7 — Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:02 pm