Quote Deano G="Deano G"IL will no doubt have done a good job to squeeze as much cash out of Sarries as possible. If he gets £200k he'll have done very well, any more than that and he will have done a fantastic job of playing a weak hand.'"
If he gets £200K he has done very well? Sorry but that is absolute rubbish.
Quote Deano GThe fact is that because Wigan were apparently only paying Tomkins less than £100k per year we would never be able to argue in court that they had suffered a great loss if he left (following which of course we would not be paying his salary, which we could use to hire a replacement). '"
It does not matter what Wigan are paying him. They can set the price on him leaving and if Sarries do not want to pay it they will [unot[/u take it to court but will walk away for reasons explained to you already in other threads.
Quote Deano GRL players are relatively cheap to hire because of the SC so any suggestion we might get say £500k (as people have suggested on this board) is very wide of the mark (unless Sarries are so flush with cash they are prepared to pay way over the odds to get their man quickly, which I suppose is just about possible given the amount of money in RU).'"
The salary cap has nothing to do with the compensation either.
There is no formula that says if a player earns X his compensation will be a multiple of X.
The value of any RL player to RU is what they are prepared to pay and nothing else.
IL needs to (should have?) set a high price well above £250K and if they were not prepared to pay it called their bluff because the club just doesn't need the money and should not be setting precedents that players with five year deal can be bought for such a small fee.
