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http://www.espn.co.uk/premiership-2014-15/rugby/story/241241.html
Aviva Premiership clubs will be allowed to recruit an additional marquee player ahead of the 2015-16 season and will have an additional £500,000 available in the salary cap.
At present the salary cap is £5m in the Premiership with clubs permitted to sign one marquee player whose wages are outside of that limitation. But The Times claims those rules will change ahead of next season with the salary cap rising to £5.5m - £1m up on where it was two years ago - as the inevitable post-World Cup merry-go-round kicks in.
The additional marquee player has to be recruited from overseas but could theoretically be English; it could pave the way for Steffon Armitage to return to the Premiership for example. Other clubs have already been linked with high profile recruits for the 2015-16 campaign with Bath rumoured to have agreed a deal to sign Wallabies scrum-half Will Genia.