Duane Vermeulen
English club Bath are reportedly setting their sights on signing Springbok and Stormers No 8 Duane Vermeulen after next year’s Rugby World Cup.
The 28-year-old has been instrumental for the Springboks this season and was recently also shortlisted as an IRB World Rugby Player of the year nominee.
According to the Express.co.uk website, Bath are lining up Vermeulen as a second marquee player alongside Wallaby scrumhalf Will Genia.
Sport24
The deal, which would be worth £ 450 000 (about R 7.8 Million) per season, would make him the second-highest earner in the Premiership behind new rugby league recruit Sam Burgess.
Other players nominated alongside Vermeulen for the IRB World Rugby Player of the year are his compatriot Willie le Roux, Ireland’s Jonathan Sexton, and All Blacks Brodie Retallick and Julian Savea.
Next year’s Rugby World Cup, to be staged in England and Wales, runs from 18 September to 31 October.
Eishhhhhhhhhhhh!
Nice, very nice!!!!! How can our unions compete with that sort of cash. And us Lions fans are happy with a rumoured R30mil sponsorship for SR. That’s about a 3rd of an annual sponsorship.
2 @ Lion4ever:
Yeah… I suppose it’s about 5 times as much as a “RICH” South African Franchise could offer a very valuable player.
From the player’s perspective he would not be able to refuse an offer like that.
In 5 years overseas, he could earn enough to be very comfortable when he returns to SA… and do whatever he wants to from thereon in, set up for life.
This SINGLE OFFER, is larger than the total player budget of the majority, if not all, of the individual Currie Cup First Division Unions!
Geez that is crazy, almost as much as Bakkies and Habana make. Will be tough to turn down for Duane.
This new European cup deal has been extremely sweet for the English it seems.
“As expected, the base salary cap level will rise to £5.1million (€6.43m), plus £400,000 (€504,000) in home-grown player credits.
This season’s salary cap is set at £5million €6.3m).
Each Premiership club will additionally be able to nominate up to two ‘excluded players’ whose salary is not included in the cap.
The changes were confirmed following a meeting on Wednesday of Premiership Rugby’s chairman and shareholder group. Premiership clubs can already nominate one so-called ‘marquee player’ in their squad, whose wages are excluded from the salary cap constraints.”
There is more to come.(or go)
Source
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/european-cup/premiership-rugby-raises-salary-cap-1.1932333
@ grootblousmile:
Provided of course that he lives a comfortable and not OTT lifestyle and puts the moola into some very sound investments. Not sure what his tax exposure will be, but he will have a lot of money to burn after expenses.
Very good for Duane.
I wonder what that old Keo Kenner, HG thinks of this offer for a useless Spermwhale 😆
@ nortie:
8 Hi my friend.One of the defences against libel
is “FAIR COMMENT”Stormers Boy can confirm)`
There was indeed a time when Duane was slow,overweight
and sluggish.(Good Lord ,I am being mischievous today)
Happily for SA this is no longer the case,and he is
now a magnificent player.
Frankly,I miss HG who often made provocative comments just to stir debate.His and Pedi,s arguments
were highly entertaining,as were those he had with you.
He knew his rugby,but I was often appalled by the lewd
language directed towards Pedi and Dawn.Too few
people stood up to him .To your credit,you were one person who did.
Regards pal.Rye
@ ryecatcher:
Ha ha Rye, that’s why I gave the wink after the post.
I remember the Spermwhale and Donkey de Villiers comments, but to be fair, it was only because they play for WP/Stormers that he didn’t rate or like them, more than what they did or didn’t do on the field.
His dislike for the Visdorpie sometimes clouded his judgment.
I too miss Pedi, especially when she and Sharks Lover got stuck into each other.
grootblousmile wrote:
Hello GBS, is saw this one this morning
$25 mil per year?
To play sport?
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/baseball/30092995
@ nortie:
10 One can only speculate why a city rated
the worlds most beautiful would be so hated.
Rye
ryecatcher wrote:
Ours not to reason why…..
@ nortie:
14 Perhaps a less than satisfactory romantic liasion.
@ ryecatcher:
You never know pal…..having your heart broken by a toothless bergie might just push one over the edge
@ nortie:
Sies man
ryecatcher wrote:
It still hurts when he sits down 😈
nortie wrote:
Why did they call Jaque Fourie “Mossie” ?
Victoriabok wrote:
Victoriabok wrote:
Weet nie, dalk omdat hy so baie “gechirp” het op die veld?
Hy is blykbaar die grapgat in die span en het baie gepraat op die veld
@ nortie:
19 The memory dims with age.Please remind
me how those Asian people of ambivalent
sexuality were referred to.Thai someting.
Just another HG put on.
@ ryecatcher:
Lol, forgot about that episode with the ladyboy 😆
ryecatcher wrote:
His date was the winner of Miss BangCOCK Adams Apple 2010 contest
And who can forget Lonely Dove’s on and off romance with Extraball.
😆
gunther wrote:
Imagine ET on this site?
How many postings from Extraball would it take before GBS kicks him?
Especially when he had half a bottle of his 30 year old Pinotage
@ Victoriabok:
That Thai episode made my toes curl. 😆
@ gunther:
That episode brought a tear to my eye. 😆
Has anyone tried to get HG here?
It would be great to have him here, it would spice things up
How can we contact him?
Email address?
gunther wrote:
A match made in …..hell
@ Victoriabok:
@ IAAS:
I think his online activities have been curtailed due to his neighbour withdrawing his “free” wifi.
😆
@ nortie:
The Richard Burton and Elizabeth Tailor of the interweb.
😆
@ gunther:
The Friends’ Ross and Rachel of the rugby blogging world.
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