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Prem Rugby: Bath biggest spenders of all 10 clubs in treble-winning season
The salary cap – a £6.4m limit on squad spending, albeit with ‘credits’ on offer for home-grown talent and other factors which stretch the restriction to £7.8m – will remain the same.
Fly-half remains the highest paid position in the Prem on £260,000, with back row second at £192,000.
The lowest paid position is wing on £132,000, with prop on slightly more on £144,000.
Like Russell, Sale’s George Ford, Marcus Smith at Harlequins and Saracens’ Maro Itoje are among the excluded players, with their average salary £533,000.
Bottom side Newcastle spent the least of all clubs and failed to reach £4m overall.
“The cap continues to be supported by all and it is central to driving the competitiveness of the Prem,” chief executive Simon Massie-Taylor said.
“With six different winners in as many years, we should all be proud of our system that ensures that any club, on any given day, can compete for the biggest prize in English rugby.”
Together with their first league title since 1996, Bath lifted the Premiership Rugby Cup and European Challenge Cup last year.
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Tickets for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua’s fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium have sold out in just one hour.
Fury and Joshua will meet on a bill that begins on 11 December but they are not expected to fight until the early hours of 12 December.
The highest-priced tickets were available at £13,128, including booking fees, with the lowest at £88.50.
The all-British heavyweight contest, which will be broadcast globally on Netflix, was announced in September and around 80,000 tickets went on sale at 12:00 BST on Friday.
Just minutes after the tickets went on sale more than 500,000 people were waiting in the online queue.
Tickets quickly began emerging on resale websites, with ringside VIP seats being advertised for £73,645, while upper tier seats were available for £425.
Ringwalks are expected to start around 01:00 GMT on Saturday 12 December, following a short live music performance, and the stadium will remain open until 03:30.
The event is being promoted as a collaboration between Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and UFC chief Dana White.
Organisers are yet to confirm any of the undercard fights.
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