Could Salford Red Devils captain Elijah Taylor move to a Super League rival?

If there has ever been an overseas recruit that has bought into a club as quickly as Elijah Taylor, then the world needs to know about it.

After joining the Salford Red Devils ahead of the 2021 Super League season, Taylor has gone on to become captain and become a cult hero on the terraces of the AJ Bell Stadium.

At 32 years of age, the loose-forward has played almost 200 NRL games for New Zealand Warriors, Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers and has added over 20 appearances at the Red Devils.

However, Taylor is out of contract at the end of the 2022 season with no apparent movement yet, but it would be a massive boon for Paul Rowley and the Salford club to nail down the former New Zealand international to a contract, leaving him a potential target for rival Super League sides.

The Kiwi’s time in the game has been far from straightforward as he explained how he was swindled out of just over £200,000 by a former manager, Ian Miles, who had taken out almost 1000 transactions from Taylor’s bank account.

“I remember him going on holiday to Fiji and he had duplicated my credit card it so he could hide the costs and it looked like me that was spending,” Taylor told BBC 5 Live.

“There were transactions in Fiji and there was some of them where I should have acted, but I was playing for Penrith and my best footy and I was focused on that.

“How I eventually found out about everything was the people that I had a mortgage with sent a letter home saying I was behind in payments.

“And I thought no way.”

But, Taylor’s world soon came crashing down after making a trip to the bank after being contacted by the company he had taken out a mortgage with.

“I went to the bank and then boom you know those days in your life that you’ll never forget, that’s the day I’ll never forget – that was devastating.

“A couple of weeks before the court case he declared bankruptcy.

“He was like my dad, my real dad passed away and Ian kind of moved into that role. It was disbelief.”