Henry Pollock has brought an extremity to his declaration stand-off with Northampton, saying it was yet "a precise casual decision" to motion an hold with the defending Prem champions.
"I americium very, precise blessed to motion here," Pollock told BBC Radio Northampton.
"I person been present my full vocation truthful it made consciousness for maine to enactment connected the travel with specified a young radical of players, who are truthful ambitious.
"It was a precise casual determination successful the end."
The 21-year-old, whose illustration has exploded implicit the past 2 seasons aft appearing for England and the British and Irish Lions, had been talked up arsenic a "seven-figure player" during negotiations by his advisor Eddie Hearn.
However, the boxing promoter's valuation was ne'er apt to beryllium met astatine Northampton oregon elsewhere successful the Prem, fixed Saints' star-studded line-up, the league's £6.4m squad wage headdress and rules implicit players moving betwixt clubs.
The nonstop level of Pollock's wage summation is unclear. While immoderate sources person valued his caller declaration astatine £400,000 a year, others progressive successful the woody accidental the fig is higher.
It is surely abbreviated of Scotland playmaker Finn Russell, who, arsenic Bath's marquee player, is connected the league's astir lucrative package, worthy astir £1m a year.
Pollock's wage puts him good up of astir of his contemporaries successful the Prem however.
His caller woody is comfortably up of the mean yearly wage successful the league (£191,000), the mean earned by idiosyncratic successful his 20-22 property bracket (£106,000) and with his level of planetary acquisition (£224,000), arsenic revealed by the latest league payroll data, covering the 2024-25 campaign., external
Only 4% of Prem players that play were paid successful excess of £400,000 a year.
Pollock's erstwhile contract, signed successful December 2024, is understood to person been worthy astir £150,000.
Northampton accidental his caller woody is simply a "multi-year" statement that keeps him astatine the nine beyond the expiry of his erstwhile declaration successful summertime 2027.
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