South Africa No 8 Duane Vermeulen will leave Toulon at the end of the season, club president Mourad Boudjellal confirmed on Wednesday. The 31-year-old will return to South African side Stormers, the club he left to join Toulon in 2015.
“Vermeulen is leaving, he will be replaced by an international level player that we will announce in the next 48 hours,” said Boudjellal. The player is rumoured to be All Black legend Jerome Kaino.
Rugby Inside Line has reported that Glasgow Warriors will join the race to sign Wasps flanker James Haskell, who is out of contract at the end of the season. Bristol, Gloucester and Northampton are all apparently interested.