Re: Widdop to miss opener : Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:52 am
Bigredwarrior wrote:
I can’t say what salary anybody earns for sure but I was told by a Warrington first team player that Widdop was on £500k a year! Huge money if true.
He’ll be on a wedge that’s for sure. His stock at the time of negotiating that deal was much higher than now. He’s come off the back of a really good 2017 and a decent 2018 with the Dragons and his form for England in the World Cup of 2017 had been excellent. Since that signing though it’s been a run of injury problems, struggling for club form and then along with everyone else, he had a really poor time of it for GB.
Once fully fit he’s a cracking player but the big money is a risk. It’s the risks clubs are having to take though. Our own marquee signings are both pretty big risks in different ways. One due to his career being on a downward curve for a couple of years now and the other because it’s clear that he won’t be around long.