The salary cap which has been in place in Premiership Rugby since 1999 should be abolished, according to Saracens’ Chief Executive, Ed Griffiths.

Currently, Aviva Premiership clubs salary budget mustn’t be in excess of five million pounds, with an additional five hundred thousand pounds being added to the cap next season, stretching each teams allowance to five and a half million pounds. Additionally, each club are permitted a Marquee Player who’s wages don’t count towards the salary cap.

Griffiths, however, feels that the English clubs should abolish what he feels is a restrictive law so that Premiership Clubs can compete with the lucrative contracts on offer in France.

It would be a pity if the world’s top players light up the World Cup on English soil, and then leave to play club rugby in France. If the salary cap is left to forbid the required investment, it will kill any hope of growth.

Imagine the likes of Arsenal or Manchester City being asked to compete with Barcelona, Bayern and Real Madrid under those circumstances. It would never happen, but it happens in rugby.

Source: The Telegraph

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According to the French show, 2o Minutes, Toulouse pair Thierry Dusautoir and Patricio Albacete have expressed their desire to move to the Aviva Premiership, with Bath, Leicester and London Irish all reputed suitors.

Dusautoir, born in the Ivory Coast, has earned over seventy caps for France and, should he even half replicate his form from previous years his signing would represent a major coup for the aforementioned triumvirate of clubs.

Similarly, Albacete, the six foot seven Argentinian lock, would add nous and experience to any engine room and his signing could prove to be inspired.

These signings, as well as Steffon Armitage’s rumoured move to high spending Bath, would be facilitated by the Aviva Premiership extending each teams salary cap by half a million pounds.

Source of Article: Planet Rugby

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