The Northampton director of rugby, Phil Dowson, has mentioned the membership “have got to find a happy medium” in contract talks with Henry Pollock after the participant’s consultant, Eddie Hearn, advised he ought to be incomes £1m a year.
Pollock is claimed to earn round £150,000 a season and his present deal expires on the finish of the 2026-27 marketing campaign. Hearn has said Pollock may earn “10 times” that if he had been to maneuver to a different membership, warning “he can’t stay at the club on the money he’s on”.
The 21-year-old has 13 England caps however has made just one begin. Hearn says his industrial profile warrants a seven-figure wage. Pollock is among the many 25 England gamers to obtain an enhanced contract worth £150,000 and Dowson expressed confidence the Prem champions can maintain maintain of him.
He mentioned: “It is going well. We are still pushing it through. What Eddie Hearn also said, and people have gone straight to the million-pound remark, but the other thing he said is that Henry wants to win stuff, Henry wants to stay at Saints, Henry wants to play with that group of players. He wants to win the World Cup. I embrace that. I am all for that. The appetite is for him to stay. Now we’ve got to find a happy medium. We really want to keep him, he really wants to stay, and that’s a great start.
“We still have to make decisions based on our budget and our financial situation. We’ll continue to do that in the best way possible. That is in discussion with agents, discussions with the group and discussions with the decision-makers about what we can afford and how we put a squad together, how that fits within our budget.”
Salary cap constraints imply Pollock’s probabilities of receiving a seven-figure supply are slim, not least as a result of Northampton’s self-imposed funds is considerably lower than the cap’s ceiling.
Dowson added: “My job is to try and fit 57, 58 players within a squad on a budget. I’ll continue to do that. Eddie Hearn is great for the game, we want to keep Henry Pollock. Fundamentally, nothing has changed. What he says is based on his job.
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“Eddie Hearn has a job to do, and that is to promote his client and ask for more money for his client. He’s doing both of those very effectively. We’ve said we want to publicise and grow the game and he has the ability to do that.”