{"id":181000,"date":"2025-10-06T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:59:06","slug":"fin-smith-becomes-fourth-highest-paid-prem-player-after-new-saints-deal-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181000\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin Smith becomes FOURTH highest-paid Prem player after new Saints deal &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7.\u00a0Tom Curry (Sale Sharks) \u2013 \u00a3525,000<\/p>\n<p>A tackling machine. Curry\u2019s athleticism and breakdown dominance make him one of the world\u2019s best back-rowers, even as he battles through injury layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0George Ford (Sale Sharks) \u2013 \u00a3550,000<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate tactician. Ford\u2019s control, vision, and game management have driven Sale into contention, and his experience keeps him among the top fly-halves in world rugby.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0Owen Farrell (Saracens) \u2013 \u00a3550,000<\/p>\n<p>Saracens\u2019 heartbeat and England\u2019s captain. Farrell\u2019s precision, leadership, and relentless standards keep him among the very best in the Prem.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0Fin Smith (Northampton Saints) \u2013 \u00a3600,000<\/p>\n<p>The new kid among the elite. At just 23, Smith\u2019s rise has been rapid \u2014 from Worcester hopeful to England and Lions fly-half, now one of the\u00a0highest-paid Prem players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/fin-smith-becomes-fourth-highest-paid-prem-player-after-new-saints-deal\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7.\u00a0Tom Curry (Sale Sharks) \u2013 \u00a3525,000 A tackling machine. Curry\u2019s athleticism and breakdown dominance make him one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-181000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}