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Eddie Jones tips loan model for Super competition
Eddie Jones
June 21, 2008 12:00am
SOCCER'S model of signing top players to five-year deals and 'loaning' stars to overseas clubs is the future I see for rugby.
Digest a few facts.
The player market in Europe at the moment is red hot.
French clubs are prepared to pay up to $450,000 ($735,000) for a top player. (I suspect that should be 450k EUROS which would convert to roughly AUD$735k.)
Recently, a high profile Wallaby back knocked back an offer of this magnitude.
There are 14 professional clubs in Division 1, another 14 pro clubs in Division 2, and talk of Division 3 in France also going professional.
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