Sale Sharks lock Cobus Wiese will return home to South Africa at the end of the season to join the Bulls on a two-year deal.
Sale boss Alex Sanderson has revealed the true extent of the devastating season-ending injury suffered by Cobus Wiese when he was bundled into touch by a dramatic try-saving tackle earlier this month at London Irish.
South Africa will be without key flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit and scrumhalf Faf de Klerk for the deciding Test against the British & Irish Lions on Saturday as coach Jacques Nienaber was forced into making three changes to his team.
The Springboks have named their team to face Georgia on Friday in their first Test match since winning the World Cup in November 2019.
The final month of an unprecedented year has seen Cobus Wiese face the shock exit of Steve Diamond, Sale Shark’s director of rugby, suffer three successive defeats and experience snow for the first time in his life.
Leicester have been enjoying a recruitment overdrive in recent weeks and Cheetahs back row Jasper Wiese has become their latest signing.
Mark Wilson had played just three times when the season stopped for Sale who are still awaiting the arrival of Cobus Wiese from South Africa.
Cobus Wiese, who plays lock or flanker at the Stormers, chose Sale after Saracens were automatically relegated from the Gallagher Premiership.
