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The Rugby league transfer record is the highest-ever sum of money paid by a club to purchase the contract, and thereby obtain the playing services of another club's player. It has been broken in every decade since the sport became professional around the start of the 20th century.
The deal was worth approximately A$600,000 a year, making King one of the highest paid players in rugby league. In September 2007, he finally realised his dream of playing in a premiership. Melbourne won convincingly over Manly-Warringah, 34–8, and King scored an inspiring try in his last game in the NRL .
The National Rugby League has adopted the salary cap system from its predecessor. A special team headed by former Australian representative Ian Schubert deals with salary cap issues and monitors teams on a yearly basis. [2] As of 2019 the salary cap is $9.6 million for the top thirty players at each club.
This is a list of professional sports leagues by revenue.Individual sports are not included. The "Season" column refers to the sports league season for which financial data is available and referenced, which is usually not the most recently completed season of competition.
In the 2010s, salaries in the Top League rose to become some of the highest in the rugby world [citation needed]; in 2012, South Africa's Jaque Fourie, now with Kobelco Steelers, was widely reported to be the world's highest-paid player. [6]
This page details first-grade rugby league records from the National Rugby League (1998-) and its predecessors, the New South Wales Rugby Football League (1908-1994), the Australian Rugby League, (1995-1997), and the Super League (1997).
In 2009, he signed a four-year contract with Warrington worth around £200,000, making him the most expensive teenage signing in Rugby League history. [8] Myler was offered a new contract which allegedly would have made him the highest paid player in the history of Widnes.
Reynolds was known to be the clubs highest paid player in their history but the clubs management decided to cut their losses to allow recruitment to begin for a replacement. [46] On 26 October, Reynolds re-joined his former club Canterbury on a 12-week train and trial contract.