Saracens and Toulouse have previously expressed an interest in signing the 24-year-old and the expansion of the Premiership Rugby salary cap means that Tuilagi could become the league’s first £500,000-a-year player.
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Wasps and Worcester Warriors offer Manu Tuilagi a contract worth over £500k-per-year, according to reports.
The England centre has been offered a new contract by Leicester, which the Tigers claim would make him one of the highest-paid players in the world. But in the end it is always about the money.
Manu Tuilagi could become the highest paid player in the Premiership.
“We are having some very positive discussions with Manu and and we are very positive about him staying here”, Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester. He has a lot of rugby left in him. “He wants to stay but ultimately somebody’s worth what someone’s prepared to pay”. “We would like to think that it will get done sooner rather than later”.
“We’re working within the limitations of keeping the rest of the squad together”.
Leicester have stood by Tuilagi through thick and thin.
They were there for him when he jumped from the auto ferry into Auckland harbour during England’s scandal-hit 2011 World Cup campaign.
The hulking centre was discarded from England’s World Cup disaster when coach Stuart Lancaster’s hard-line disciplinary attitude in the leadup to the tournament saw Tuilagi dropped after he was convicted of assaulting two female police officers and damaging a taxi.
“I’d like to think people realise the club’s been pretty good to him”. “For me, goodwill is an important factor in human life”.
“We have made that known to him”.
Ed Slater is more interested in seeing Manu Tuilagi back in action for Leicester Tigers than talk of him leaving Welford Road.
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“I am confident that Manu will stay”.
