The Goosen saga seems over ...

Goosen was contracted to Racing and suddenly stated that he wanted to move out of Rugby into Horse farming in SA. There were rumours of 'ulterior motives'

Racing refused to release his contract and he has remained out of rugby for 18 mths, Racing put a price on his contract and went to law.

Now the Mop billionaire President has done a deal with Racing to release him for 1.5 million and he is going to play for Montpelier next Season.

Still only 25 year old and was an excellent utility player, incl Player of the Year.

All part of the Club, big money league ....

Should be good news for SA though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Goosen

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A move was always suspected as the motive for his 'early retirement'
The sum paid is the contract buy out.

french report (described above) here
http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/rugby/top-14 ... sen-898090

And now...the reported salary is 800k euros/annum for someone who hasn’t played for 18 mth

And another foreigner to join the Mop ranks

Cotter has been proting french juniors into the Espoir ranks but this is the wrong signal!

Ridiculous