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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How does that show he is the replacement? He was signed to this before 25'. What do you mean auto dev deal? He signed a two year deal, in that deal you need to stipulate what criteria they on.
I thought 2 years dev but makes sense its dev 25' and Top 30 26. If that is signed we must honour it unless he asks for a release.
If he is top 30 this has not been negotiated recently. We knew Tago signed for two years last year.
The fact the club thought Cini before him and now Tago were worthy of development deals is a frightening though because both guys are dog pooh I mean seriously.
These mentioned aren't any good and the fact we have nothing better than this coming through our system as above is frightening.The chase for Brian Kelly makes sense because of the mentioned as we have nothing else.
Averillo? 16 other teams didn't want him either.
Averillo is asking for big money, it's not his talent
Right, so one club couldn't negotiate to a comprimise? It is not that, Averillo's management would know that and he wouldn't get that money in SL.
I'd take Averillo in a heartbeat. Then we can put him at left centre and have Russell as depth winger/center.
Agree, and him wanting big money is not a surprise, hope we haven't missed because of price..... this is a game of monopoly at present, buy everything you want or need and only pass on the shit.....Averillo is not shit!
Worry about the cap maintenance after you have bought your "houses and motels"
The model is there, Gould essentially used this formula and then off loaded to balance the books, with a lot of leverage from their Sugar Daddy's as Hoe loves to call them.
PS This is a normal play in money market securities trading, I don't know about sports trading as I have no interest in US or European sport.
It's ugly but it's true.
This is the way
There called prove it deals in the NFL and NBA Pops players sign one year deals at a favoured team to resurrect there value and hit the FA market the following year,seemingly Parra sign guys like Cini and Tago but there dogshit.
Kelly and Averillo instantly upgrade your back 5 roster purely through depth and experience.If these 2 are available with all moves seemingly not happening on elite talent iI'd be swinging hard purely because we lack quality and depth.
I'm not going to repeat my real thoughts on recruitment in this area of the team because the clubs clearly not interested in that avenue even though others are.
So where is this money 💰 💰 going ? Into the super funds of admin, coaches
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