The 30-year-old flyer, who has scored 104 tries in 198 NRL games for the Wests and Melbourne Storm, was one of the two Dally M wingers of the year in 2020.
David Nofoaluma has officially joined the Salford Red Devils after completing his move from the NRL to the Super League.
The veteran and the team decided to immediately terminate the winger’s contract, which officially announced the player’s departure from the Wests Tigers in January.
Nofoaluma has signed a one-year deal with Salford and becomes the club’s ninth signing of the transfer window.
The Eccles-based club finished seventh in last year’s Super League competition and last won the English top-flight title in the 1975–76 season.
Nofoaluma still had two years left on that contract, but tensions had been simmering beneath the surface between the joint venture and their all-time top try scorer since he received two consecutive breach notic
es.
Nofoaluma will give depth to a Salford team that lost outside backs Ken Sio and Joe Burgess.
“David’s resume is outstanding,” stated head coach Paul Row
ley.
The influence and mutual respect that Krissy [Inu] has with players in world rugby has proven fruitful.”
Australia-born Nofoaluma has four tries in three Samoa Tests, and played for the Australian Premier Ministers XIII representative side in 2015.
Salford director of rugby and operations Ian Blease added: “We have been searching all player opportunities for some time now, and when David became available it was one that, as a club, we did not want to let pass us by.”
The mutual regard and influence Krissy [Inu] has with world rugby players has paid off.”
Nofoaluma, an Australian, represented the Australian Premier Ministers XIII representative team in 2015 and has four tries in three Samoan Test matches.
“We have been searching all player opportunities for a while now, and when David became available it was one that, as a club, we did not want to let pass us by,” said Ian Blease, director of rugby and operations at Salford.
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