Potential punishments include automatic relegationHead coach Steve Borthwick: ‘This will make us stronger’Leicester Tigers are at the centre of a fresh salary cap investigation by Premiership Rugby over alleged image rights payments to players. The league leaders confirmed on Tuesday they were cooperating with PRL’s inquiry into alleged historic payments. If the Tigers are found guilty, possible punishments include points deductions and automatic relegation.
PRL’s salary cap director, Andrew Rogers, is thought to be looking into any potential links the club had with the now-defunct company Worldwide Image Management, whether it made any payments to Leicester players and, if so, whether they would be considered to have been in breach of regulations.