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Manu Tuilagi agrees new Leicester contract, according to reports

Manu Tuilagi
Manu Tuilagi had been offered ‘huge amounts of money’ to leave Leicester, according to Richard Cockerill. Photograph: JMP/Rex Shutterstock

The England centre Manu Tuilagi, has re-signed with Leicester Tigers, according to reports.

Tuilagi, who has been out of action for 13 months with a groin injury, had been linked to Saracens, Toulouse and Worcester but BBC Radio Leicester has reported that he has committed to the Tigers.

Leicester’s director of rugby, Richard Cockerill, had bemoaned the “huge amounts of money” being offered to the 24-year-old from the club’s rivals, with rumours suggesting that Worcester had offered him £1.6m over three years – claims which their director of rugby, Dean Ryan, denied.

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