RUGBY'S got ninety-nine problems. . . but finally, Sarries ain't one.

With rap star Jay-Z's sports agency Roc Nation on board the Londoners have already set their sights on world domination.

The Londoners' critics hoped that their scandalous salary-cap cheating scandal would be the end of them.

Instead, they now appear to be the most dangerous side on and off the pitch after returning to the Premiership.

Club pin-up Maro Itoje is already looked after by Jay-Z's agency who are starting to shake things up across the game.

The England and Lions hero is managed by the same group who look after South Africa's inspirational Siya Kolisi and Cheslin Kolbe.

The super-star stable-mates are tight off the pitch, too.

And with Roc Nation also heavily involved in South African side The Sharks, don't rule out the potential of the two playing together one day soon, either.

Sarries' new £32million investment is led by insurance tycoon Dominic Silvester

But it is the Jay-Z – Sharks link that holds the key to Mark McCall's three-times European champs taking the game to the next level.

Bath have proven that you can have all the money in the world and win nothing.

It's all well and good having a training ground that makes Buckingham Palace look like a squatters pad.

But unless you bring in the right people on and off the pitch there's no way a few million here and then will buy you the glory days back.

Roc Nation want to sell the game around the world and doing that requires inspirational figures like Itoje, Kolisi and Kolbe.

Sarries also have the benefit of New York lawyer Marco Masotti on board.

Masotti, the figurehead at the Durban-based Sharks, knows how to make waves.

The South African stirred things up on Twitter when Springboks boss Rassie Erasmus was charged with his bizarre ref rant during the 2021 Lions series.

His outlandish chat of suing World Rugby raised eyebrows and stuck the sport on back pages around the world.

Was he serious? Unlikely, but Masotti isn't afraid to shake things up in a sport that loves nothing more than being stuck in the dark ages.

The sport needs fresh blood.

It needs people prepared to promote and disrupt it from its slumber of the same old games, at the same old grounds and in front of the same old crowds.

Jay-Z probably had little idea of what rugby was a few years ago.

Now he's got the rap patrol on the ruck patrol.

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