Nelson Asofa-Solomona has turned his back on up to seven NRL clubs interested in his service, quitting the NRL to take up a full-time deal in boxing.
News.com.au can exclusively reveal the NRL’s biggest man has quit rugby league indefinitely to pursue his dream of becoming a heavyweight boxing champion.
The 115kg enforcer has also become the first off-contract player to shun the mega bucks of R360 and also the riches on offer in the English Super League.
The former Melbourne Storm forward has signed a full-time boxing deal and could earn up to $1m a year in his new sport.
Plans are already underway for a rugby league super fight with another high profile NRL behemoth.
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whilst this one's neither her nor there , this is the banana doing our bidding. What a glorious resume for a club that's in need of some big talent and experience injections
Some would say he's lived a blessed life. Fraud.
A fraud would at least have a resume that had us belive he was qualified for the job. This dudes resume is more suited to NSW cup somewhere, find me a worse resume for a head of recruitment anywhere in the NRL.
The time in roles and the fact he had to go to the local AFL to find work is all you need to focus on. The guys a bum. A few years before we made him " head of recruitment " for what's supposed to be an NRL power club, he was scratching around Western Sydney in a low regional position for the AFL, and was punted.
He is both our Head of Recruitment and Souffs List Manager.
How does that work?
lol, Souths haven't noticed he's gone yet. Still been paying him..
Doing a George Costanza ...
I love this, so apt.
He probably has the bed under the desk, as per George! Having a sleep during they day...
He should only have one position dated as his present job...lets help him out and put Dec 2025 as the end date of his Eels position and let him be "present" at Souths
Is he "Head of Recruitment" I wouldn't know him if I fell over him?
I thought he was more of a talent scout in the junior's market? and had little to do with First Grade Recruitment.
The club has plenty of money and it is not cap effected to pay "talent scouts" in my understanding.....we should have every corner covered with high price talent scouts from the Islands/NZ/ Qld and NSW. Even ESL. Farnsworth found his way to Broncos and then Dolphins, Broncos with an ESL side will now have access to every top junior in England.
Maybe we should have a satelite side playing in NZ, a great way to develop some of our juniors who cannot get a look in locally but will not be lost to us. Dyllan Brown found us, knew nothing about Parra but somehow he got here, we could create an awareness of Parra and its history . Interesting the cost of such a side should be able to be taken off balance sheet for the sake of cap management.
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