Arthur is just getting a wage until he gets an offer to return the NRL.

Have St Helens done the dirty on Salford?
While everyone else is raiding their best players and paying transfer fee, which in a perverse way helps Salford. Saints have got Deon Cross deregistered and taken him on a free. Are they kicking them while they are down?

Seems like it's the RFL that have done the dirty on Salford by de-registering Cross, no doubt it benefits Saints but Salford only have themselves to blame.

NRL salary cap mooted to rise to around $12.7m in 2027 and  $15m by 2028. Coupled with what they might expect in return for their "investment", then this could be the start of a very dark period indeed for SL. 

I honestly don't think any impending investment/take over is something Leeds or any other top level SL club should fear. The NRL want to negotiate global TV rights in 2028, which in essence would mean European SL (or NRL Europe) would be due a far larger slice of that cake. The Aussies know that if they want to take the game to the next level and embrace bigger markets SL is the only viable bet,  so their is no value from their perspective in diminishing the value of the comp. The catch in all this will be the number of clubs they consider to be top flight. But to be honest, a proper conversation on that subject is long overdue in our game, and has indeed been holding it back for 30 years.