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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 767357" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>Gloucester have made their statement:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/news/11858.php#.VjIlNvnhCUl" target="_blank">http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/news/11858.php#.VjIlNvnhCUl</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #474747"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #474747"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span>Implication appears to be that the central issue is over a difference of opinion on whether commercial activities taken up by players have been facilitated by the club or not and therefore whether they should be deemed as within the cap or not.<span style="color: #474747"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #474747"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p>It does make it very difficult to police though. A team when signing a player: "Keep hush about this, but we've managed to get you a lucrative commercial contract. X will be in contact with you halfway through the year, make it look like they approached you. We had nothing to do with it." You would need the club, agent, player or commercial partner to come forward to say that this is what happened - and who will actually do that?</p><p></p><p>It would be interesting to see a comparison of the amount of commercial income received by the players of each club that isn't connected to the salary cap. You would think that if deals were being facilitated by clubs, that player income not included in the salary cap would be a lot higher than from other clubs. If the players of the Tigers are collectively receiving £400k from outside deals, and the players of Sarries are receiving £2m, you know that something is up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 767357, member: 55446"] Gloucester have made their statement: [URL]http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/news/11858.php#.VjIlNvnhCUl[/URL] [COLOR=#474747][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR]Implication appears to be that the central issue is over a difference of opinion on whether commercial activities taken up by players have been facilitated by the club or not and therefore whether they should be deemed as within the cap or not.[COLOR=#474747][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR] It does make it very difficult to police though. A team when signing a player: "Keep hush about this, but we've managed to get you a lucrative commercial contract. X will be in contact with you halfway through the year, make it look like they approached you. We had nothing to do with it." You would need the club, agent, player or commercial partner to come forward to say that this is what happened - and who will actually do that? It would be interesting to see a comparison of the amount of commercial income received by the players of each club that isn't connected to the salary cap. You would think that if deals were being facilitated by clubs, that player income not included in the salary cap would be a lot higher than from other clubs. If the players of the Tigers are collectively receiving £400k from outside deals, and the players of Sarries are receiving £2m, you know that something is up. [/QUOTE]
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