Ok, free is maybe a poor choice of word.Oldschool wrote: ↑August 17th, 2020, 11:41 am"FREE"munster#1 wrote: ↑August 17th, 2020, 11:33 amMunster’s current model of player salary is probably as Financially sustainable as any with the exception of Leinster, who are close to self sustaining, and are massively subsidised through central contracts.
Of the for foreign players that Munster have on their books, CJ is centrally contracted, the 2 World Cup winners are also free as they are paid by private money, the rest are likely to be on fairly low salaries (I personally don’t know the figures) as most of them were project players.
You could argue that Munster saved money on signing foreign project players, as they didn’t have to invest money in them during their early careers.
Munster have also significantly reduced their player numbers by about 8 senior contracted players, as well as stream lining the academy, which surely brought about large savings.
It would be interesting to compare the salaries of the four provinces to see how the stack up.
Of course, there are issues outside of the financial impact, but that is a separate conversation.
The most abused word in the English language.
Probably should have said that the 2 new saffers do not have a direct implication on the player salary budget, as their salaries are covered by outside investment.