Leicester Tigers
Leicester Tigers in the market for new £500,000 marquee player
ESPN Staff
April 8, 2015
Richard Cockerill
Richard Cockerill© Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

Leicester Tigers are ready to spend big if the right marquee player becomes available.

Under the new salary cap rules, Aviva Premiership clubs are allowed two marquee players whose salaries are outside of the constraints of the cap. The Tigers will have a new-look coaching set-up next term with Aaron Mauger taking on the role of head coach and they are looking to bolster their squad.

World Cup years normally see a number of the southern hemisphere's top players moving north to Europe and Japan and Tigers boss Richard Cockerill is keeping his eye out for a world class individual.

"We have been in lots of discussions with agents and £500,000 is the sort of price bracket those players are in," Cockerill said in the Leicester Mercury. "If you can't beat them, join them. If sides are going to go into that market place and spend that sort of money, maybe it is something we would look at, for the right person.

"If the right person came up, I am sure the club and the board would look at that from a playing and commercial point of view. Like Premier League football, you have to have world-class players in the competition. "As a club, though, we don't have somebody who is going to give us £8m for a new stand. We have to find the money or take a loan and pay it back. "We know what we are working with and we will not be spending as much as other clubs. That's just the way it is."

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