sergeant pepper wrote:
I do get that, but at the same time I think it's easy to use all of that as an excuse too.
If there was ever a player to get into a bidding war for, it was Sam Tomkins. Completely understand that all of this is just talk and easy to say when it isn't my money - but I'd like to think that if I was rich enough to own the club, I'd have told Sam to name his price. I'd have done anything to keep him at the club.
Honestly mate
As Pemps says below the whole package whilst playing and Post playing for a couple of years after you finish playing are unreal
It's not as simple as This BUT
It would basically like us having to double the amount of basic Catalans were offering
So if catalans offered say 300k for the last 3 seasons, we'd need to offer 1.5m plus love those 3 years to match what he will get when tax and the post playing benefits kick in.
Extend that to 5 years (his next 2 year contract taken into account) and wed be paying best part of 2.5m over 5yrs to match catalans 1.5m
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