League: Souths digs deep for Asotasi

Kiwis forward Roy Asotasi has signed a lucrative five-year deal with struggling NRL club South Sydney.

Terms of the five-year deal were not disclosed, but newspaper reports put the likely figure at $A440,000 ($542,875) a season.

The total $A2.2 million deal would make the 10-test Kiwis international, 24, one of the highest-paid forwards in the game.

He joins Kiwis David Kidwell and Nigel Vagana in having switched to Souths in the past month.