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Racing 92 statement: England great Owen Farrell to join next season
By Josh Raisey
Racing 92 have confirmed the signing of former England captain Owen Farrell, who will join the Top 14 outfit from Saracens on a two-year deal at the end of the season.
This move comes after weeks of speculation over Farrell's future after French outlet Midi Olympique revealed that the 32-year-old was close to signing a deal with the Parisian outfit earlier this month.
Racing put that speculation to bed today by confirming the signing of the fly-half, who will finish his 16-year association with Saracens at the end of the season.
A statement reads: "Racing 92 formalizes the signing of Owen FARRELL (32 years old) within its professional men's team. The English international player is committed to 2 sporting seasons and will join the Ciel et Blanc squad from July 1, 2024."
Farrell's international future is thrown into doubt with this transfer as well. The 112-cap England international has already stood down from Test rugby for the upcoming Guinness Six Nations and England's summer tour, but he will now no longer be available for England until 2026 - that is providing he rejoins a team in the Gallagher Premiership.
This move will only add more pressure on the RFU, however, to change their current overseas ruling, whereby no player outside of England can be selected.
Farrell still has six months left on his Saracens contract, where he will want to add more silverware to his trophy cabinet. The reigning Premiership champions currently sit in sixth place in the league while they face a tricky trip to Bordeaux Begles in the round of 16 in the Investec Champions Cup - a team that beat them 55-15 only last week.
The No10 will team up with fellow England international Henry Arundell at La Defense Arena, as well as South Africa captain Siya Kolisi, as Racing hunt for an elusive Champions Cup title.
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As per above I think there is a lot of intelligence in doing that. I reckon I could come up with a dead wood list of 30 names for you. But yes, it certainly means they would need to factor in a better way of making sure the right players are retained. I like small squads myself, but every year teams are needing to go well beyond their numbers and pick from those that remained in NZ after missing out on Super contracts, so just compensating by having fewer teams but larger squads would certainly be viable, especially the way they are injurying their players currently.
Why not just give them Moana figuretively speaking to have as their fourth side (so they need to drop a side so it can be 5 teams on each side of the ditch, with Drua having Fiji games as well)? That’s the point of my reply, that the Aussies should have actually consolidated to 3 teams years ago, not four, pertinent because the 11 teams currently is not ‘it’. Hey, if they can get a Jaguares, or (South) American team in with even half of Argentina’s test stars and most of all the others, as a 12th team willing to play within 10 hours flight, then great, that’s obviously the way to go. But weve heard nothing. I can’t see a 6th NZ team as they’ve refused profusely and it would take too much of a restructural step for them to accept imo.
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