Former Bulldogs star Sonny Bill Williams has ended a week of speculation by switching codes and signing for Top 14 side Toulon - the club announced on Tuesday.
But new boss Boudejellal is said to be unfazed by the legal threat, and was quoted as saying.
"Our problem is: Is Williams under contract with another rugby union side? The answer is no," Boudjellal said.
"Therefore he's free to join with whoever he wants - he doesn't need a letter to leave."
How can that be? So according to the RU, as long as you are not previously from a RU club, you are "free" to ignore and "break" your contract and "walk away" with no compensation whatsoever for the club losing the player. This will surely spell trouble and I totally support the NRL and the Bulldogs legal stance!
As well as seeking an injunction to stop Williams playing in France, the Bulldogs have also foreshadowed a damages claim against the 22-year-old.
"I'm no coward, you know," Williams said. "I stood up for myself and I stood up for player rights. What I took, it's not a coward act, it's a ballsy act, you know what I mean?
"For those people, or that person, or whoever people that called me a dog, dogs take orders, I don't take orders."
Williams may have to relax that rule where Toulon coach Tana Umaga is concerned.
SONNY Bill Williams has blamed his fractured relationship with Bulldogs coach Steve Folkes as a major reason behind his decision to walk out on the club to join French rugby union team Toulon.
Williams will claim on Channel Nine's The Footy Show tonight that his relationship with Folkes deteriorated significantly this year when the long-time Bulldogs coach questioned his friendship with Anthony Mundine.
The New Zealand international said he was also disturbed by Folkes's interest in newspaper reports he was contemplating becoming a Muslim.
Williams, who made his first public appearance yesterday at Toulon training, said Folkes had never been interested in his personal life until he forged a relationship with Mundine.
Excuses, excuses, excuses! Just goes to show that the contract he signed (and has been made public) was worth nothing.
Should be interesting how this goes it could cause some serious unrest throughout the sporting world if he wins this. After all the bleating in soccer about player being treated like slaves etc...
I hope he looses he signed the contract of his own free will so he should have to see it out. I bet he wasn't complaining when he saw th $'s on the contract he signed.
The only good to come from this is changes to the salary cap. Not sure if scrapping it is a good idea but it needs to be relaxed a little so RL teams can compete with RU.
So he "broke" the Court Injunction that prevented him from playing for another club until he appeared before the Courts in Australia?
RENEGADE league star Sonny Bill Williams defied a Supreme Court injunction to make his rugby debut for Toulon yesterday.
And the former Bulldogs and Kiwis sensation also defied the rules of his new code flattening an opponent with a trademark shoulder charge.
Proving his beliefs are as staunch as his defence, Williams claimed he'd be willing to do jail time to realise his ambition to play rugby at the highest level including one day turning out for the All Blacks.
"I stand by my convictions and if they want to send me to jail for what I believe in, then so be it," Williams said hours before turning out for the match against second-tier French team Carqueiranne-Hyeres.
His debut means he is now in contempt of the New South Wales Court, which on Friday ruled he had breached his contract with the Bulldogs by walking out on a five-year deal with the NRL club without warning.
But tough-talking Toulon club president Mourad Boudjellal isn't backing down either, refusing to recognise the Australian court order which outlawed Williams from playing for anyone other than Canterbury until 2013.
"I would only recognise a French court and I only take my orders from the International Rugby Board and the French Rugby Federation," Boudjellal said.
Had heard that all his assets would be sezied (whatever they would be) and he could be arrested on ever returning to Australia.
He sounds like a little kid that is bored and wants to do something else and is going to stamp his feet until he gets his own way.
The bulldogs should make him sit in the stands if he doesn't want to play for them - it may affect them on the pitch; however if they let him have his own way then it could open the floodgates from RL to union.
Clearly the salary cap whilst good at protecting clubs from bankruptcy in the short term is a millstone around the neck of the sport when it comes to keeping the top players in the game and something will have to be done
"And Martin Offiah, trying to make some space, now then..." - Ray French, Wembley 1994
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Former ALP powerbroker Graham Richardson has ended the Sonny Bill Williams saga, brokering a deal between the renegade footballer and the Bulldogs.
In a heady chain of events played out late last night, the club has verbally agreed to a $750,000 payout from Williams, allowing him to break a five-year deal to take up a $2 million contract with French rugby side Toulon.
And in an unprecedented move for rugby league, Williams decided to negotiate the deal himself and offer his former club $750,000 to end court action against him.
