A shed load of cash, and 2 free tickets to Sarries' first home game.

He'll be back in a couple of years.

Wigan by the looks of things are turning into the new Arsenal by developing young players with potential and then selling them off to the highest bidder in Union.

There has been no mention of any money exchanging hands?
All Wigan are getting out of this is a friendly that the Wigan public have to pay for?

Wigan get a £250k fee and somewhere to play the odd game when WAFC dont want the pitch spoiled.

The satements from Joel and Ian are pathetic, why can't Joel just say its the money.

Wer have read that figure mo cos iv'e not seen it mentioned yet?

Where does it say Wigan get £250k?

More importantly, who would actually want to pay 250k for Joel Tomkins? They'd be lucky to get 100k from another RL team for him!

I'll tell you something for nothing. Whenever someone feels the need to use the word "synergy" in a statement; they're feeding you bull.

Synergy just means they could not stop him crossing codes or Sam would have kicked a stink up too? maybe losing both

Well said, I couldnt agree more

And do you know any player who came back from that game anything like as good as before they left ? More fool the clubs who bother.....once they leave, sod 'em.

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I've seen it all now.

I'm sure he'll love that crash ball centre position where he gets to use none of his skills and gets trampled on every week at the bottom of a pile of bodies.

He may get fast tracked into the England set up but there's a lot of big lump English centres playing union at the moment.

I can't help but feel he would have been better staying put. He could have improved as a player and made a decision later and got the same or possibly more money.

As it is I reckon he'll be back rather like Lee Smith or Chev Walker.

And?

Lenagan isn't stupid, he's not letting someone walk off a 5 year contract without being compensated for it. Just because he hasn't released the exact minutiae of the deal isn't to say all we've got is a smile and a handshake.