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Ashton exits Diamond’s salary cap roundabout

NICK CAIN

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WITH the blood from the Premiership lynching of Saracens still on the tiles, the rest of the clubs in England’s top tier, who insisted on brutal punitive action which saw the champions fined over £5m, docked a mountain of points, and relegated, are treading very warily around their £7m salary cap.
This was highlighted this week when Steve Diamond, the Sale Sharks director of rugby who was heavily critical of Saracens, emphasised that Chris Ashton’s decision to leave the club for Harlequins was not due to financial reas...

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