By PAUL REES

ALEX Sanderson is feeling what he calls the brutal effect of the salary cap reduction as he tries to finalise Sale’s squad for next season.
Clubs have tied up most major deals by this stage of the season, but Sanderson is still unsure whether two of South Africa’s 2019 World Cup winning squad, scrum-half Faf de Klerk and second row Lood de Jager, will be at the AJ Bell Stadium next season.
“The most difficult thing with the cap is that you want to keep all the players at the club but you cannot,” said Sanderson, Sale’s director of rugby. ...