Sonny Bill Williams will only return to the NRL if the league promised he would be the highest paid player in the competition, according to reports. Photo / Getty Images
Sonny Bill Williams will only return to rugby league if he is the highest paid player in the NRL.
The All Black centre, whose contract with the New Zealand Rugby Union ends at the end of the year, allegedly wants A$800,000 (NZ$1.02 million) to play in the competition he controversially
left in 2008, Rugby League Week reported.
An unnamed club's coach told the magazine the 26-year-old's manager Khoder Nasser has stated the former Canterbury Bulldog will only return to the NRL if the league promised he would be the highest paid player in the competition.
"That was one of a host of conditions he set down. It was about that stage we lost interest," he told Rugby League Week.
The magazine also reported Nasser is refusing to sign Williams for any longer than a one-year deal, and he would have to be able to continue boxing professionally on the side.
