Teenage cross-code sensation Joseph Suaalii is set to become the youngest millionaire in rugby league history.
On Sunday,The Daily Telegraph reported Suaalii will sign a four-year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs worth $2 million.
The 16-year-old will therefore earn $500,000 a season, and has been tipped to eventually replace Latrell Mitchell at fullback for the Rabbitohs.
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The Olympics' postponement has given rugby fresh hope the sport can win an against-the-odds battle with rugby league for the signature of teen prodigy Joseph Suaalii.
As a 16-year-old year 11 student of The King's School, Suaalii would have been too young to play sevens for Australia at the Tokyo Games this year.
Rugby Australia needs every last carrot to dangle for Suaalii's signature over the next 12 months, particularly after the Australian Schools and Under-18s representative was the subject of a report he is poised to sign a four-year, $2 million NRL contract with South Sydney.
He is technically off limits to the Rabbitohs until his 17th birthday in August and will not be eligible to play first grade until 2021. But, with rave reviews from Wayne Bennett and Sam Burgess, talk is the deal is done.
The code's decision-makers are also mindful that the hype around Suaalii does not overshadow their keen interest in another Schools and U18s winger, Newington College's Tolu Koula, who is also straddling two codes and plays for Manly in rugby league's SG Ball Cup.
On Sunday,The Daily Telegraph reported Suaalii will sign a four-year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs worth $2 million.
The 16-year-old will therefore earn $500,000 a season, and has been tipped to eventually replace Latrell Mitchell at fullback for the Rabbitohs.
$2m teenage freak to make NRL history
Teenage cross-code sensation Joseph Suaalii is set to become the youngest millionaire in rugby league history.
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Last-ditch Olympic pitch to lure Suaalii to rugby
Rugby will not secure the signature of teenage sensation Joseph Suaalii with money alone.
The Olympics' postponement has given rugby fresh hope the sport can win an against-the-odds battle with rugby league for the signature of teen prodigy Joseph Suaalii.
As a 16-year-old year 11 student of The King's School, Suaalii would have been too young to play sevens for Australia at the Tokyo Games this year.
Rugby Australia needs every last carrot to dangle for Suaalii's signature over the next 12 months, particularly after the Australian Schools and Under-18s representative was the subject of a report he is poised to sign a four-year, $2 million NRL contract with South Sydney.
He is technically off limits to the Rabbitohs until his 17th birthday in August and will not be eligible to play first grade until 2021. But, with rave reviews from Wayne Bennett and Sam Burgess, talk is the deal is done.
The code's decision-makers are also mindful that the hype around Suaalii does not overshadow their keen interest in another Schools and U18s winger, Newington College's Tolu Koula, who is also straddling two codes and plays for Manly in rugby league's SG Ball Cup.
