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Who knows what Dan Carter's post World Cup plans are, but this is a huge offer from Racing, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...ter-scores-48m-paris-deal-20110402-1cscw.html
Take the money and run: Carter scores $4.8m Paris deal
David Long
April 3, 2011
ALL BLACKS superstar Dan Carter has been offered $1.6 million a season to play for top French club Racing Metro.
The offer is believed to be for three years. At $4.8 million, it would be the world's richest rugby contract.
The Paris club's multi-millionaire owner, Jacky Lorenzetti, is determined to turn Racing Metro into the giants of European rugby. He plans to use Carter to achieve his dream.
The deal works out at about $31,000 a week for the planet's best player, financially setting up the 29-year-old for life.
Racing Metro's offer dwarfs the take-it-or-leave-it $1.1 million offered by Perpignan. Carter played for that club during his short sabbatical in 2008, cut short when he snapped his Achilles tendon after just five games.
Perpignan's president, Paul Goze, said during the week: ''I have made a maximum offer. It's a maximum I can go up to. If there are higher offers from other clubs, we will not follow them.''
Toulouse are also still in the hunt for Carter, along with English clubs Bath, Saracens and Northampton. But Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal has not entered the battle, believing the price is too high.
Last September, Boudjellal said: ''Is this reasonable - €1.2 million [$1.6 million] for Dan Carter a season for a three-year contract? Everyone is put off by that price. In the current climate of rugby, this has crossed the line.''
But that's obviously not the case for Lorenzetti, who is also in the process of building a new stadium for the club with a capacity of 40,000, compared to the current stadium's maximum 14,000.
In an interview to be published in Midi Olympique, France's top rugby magazine, Lorenzetti says he's after Carter especially as the team's other first-five, Argentinian ace Juan Martin Hernandez, is out with a long-term injury.
''Daniel Carter, why not?'' Lorenzetti said. ''With the injury to Juan Martin Hernandez, we have an opening at the moment.''
While the money offered to Crusaders sensation Carter will be the biggest contract yet, it won't make him the game's top earner.
French hardman and cult hero Sebastien Chabal, who also plays for Racing Metro, pulls in a cool $2.7 million a year. But only $465,000 of that is from his club contract - the rest comes from advertising contracts.
Carter is one of a number of high-profile All Blacks yet to re-sign for next season. The others include captain Richie McCaw, Ma'a Nonu, Liam Messam, Josevata Rokocoko, Brad Thorn, Jimmy Cowan, Sonny Bill Williams, Cory Jane and Mils Muliaina.
It is understood that players have been advised by the NZRU to sort out their playing futures before the Tri Nations gets under way in July.
NZRU executive Neil Sorensen said the union was in negotiations with a number of players and that it hoped to make some announcements soon.
The Australian Rugby Union has been quicker in retaining top talent.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...ter-scores-48m-paris-deal-20110402-1cscw.html
Take the money and run: Carter scores $4.8m Paris deal
David Long
April 3, 2011
ALL BLACKS superstar Dan Carter has been offered $1.6 million a season to play for top French club Racing Metro.
The offer is believed to be for three years. At $4.8 million, it would be the world's richest rugby contract.
The Paris club's multi-millionaire owner, Jacky Lorenzetti, is determined to turn Racing Metro into the giants of European rugby. He plans to use Carter to achieve his dream.
The deal works out at about $31,000 a week for the planet's best player, financially setting up the 29-year-old for life.
Racing Metro's offer dwarfs the take-it-or-leave-it $1.1 million offered by Perpignan. Carter played for that club during his short sabbatical in 2008, cut short when he snapped his Achilles tendon after just five games.
Perpignan's president, Paul Goze, said during the week: ''I have made a maximum offer. It's a maximum I can go up to. If there are higher offers from other clubs, we will not follow them.''
Toulouse are also still in the hunt for Carter, along with English clubs Bath, Saracens and Northampton. But Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal has not entered the battle, believing the price is too high.
Last September, Boudjellal said: ''Is this reasonable - €1.2 million [$1.6 million] for Dan Carter a season for a three-year contract? Everyone is put off by that price. In the current climate of rugby, this has crossed the line.''
But that's obviously not the case for Lorenzetti, who is also in the process of building a new stadium for the club with a capacity of 40,000, compared to the current stadium's maximum 14,000.
In an interview to be published in Midi Olympique, France's top rugby magazine, Lorenzetti says he's after Carter especially as the team's other first-five, Argentinian ace Juan Martin Hernandez, is out with a long-term injury.
''Daniel Carter, why not?'' Lorenzetti said. ''With the injury to Juan Martin Hernandez, we have an opening at the moment.''
While the money offered to Crusaders sensation Carter will be the biggest contract yet, it won't make him the game's top earner.
French hardman and cult hero Sebastien Chabal, who also plays for Racing Metro, pulls in a cool $2.7 million a year. But only $465,000 of that is from his club contract - the rest comes from advertising contracts.
Carter is one of a number of high-profile All Blacks yet to re-sign for next season. The others include captain Richie McCaw, Ma'a Nonu, Liam Messam, Josevata Rokocoko, Brad Thorn, Jimmy Cowan, Sonny Bill Williams, Cory Jane and Mils Muliaina.
It is understood that players have been advised by the NZRU to sort out their playing futures before the Tri Nations gets under way in July.
NZRU executive Neil Sorensen said the union was in negotiations with a number of players and that it hoped to make some announcements soon.
The Australian Rugby Union has been quicker in retaining top talent.
