Toulon boss again savages Savea

Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal has launched a second stinging attack on former All Blacks winger Julian Savea after making outrageous comments that he “wasn’t welcome” at the French rugby club anymore.

The latest criticism includes Savea’s decision to attend his brother Ardie’s wedding in Fiji and questioning the winger’s fitness, attitude and “very demanding” behaviour regarding his salary and contract.

On Monday, Boudjellal made some explosive comments about Savea following the side’s 19-10 Top 14 defeat to Agen last week.

“I’m going to ask for a DNA test. They must have swapped him on the plane [when he joined from the Hurricanes last year]. If I were him, I would apologise and go back to my home country,” Mourad Boudjellal told French radio station RMC.

“I’ve told him that he was free to go and wasn’t welcome at Toulon any more,” he added.

Boudjellal backed up those comments yesterday in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper.

“I find his behaviour unacceptable. I went through the quarter-finals [tape] of the 2015 France-New Zealand World Cup and I always wonder if it’s the same player, the same man,” Boudjellal said.

“What I do not admit is that we pay him dearly. The negotiations have been very difficult, he has been very demanding and since he has been here, he is no longer. I can not think it’s normal for a player paid more than €1 million per year to go on holiday to Fiji for a month in December . . . he just had to attend his brother’s wedding, not take long leave.”

Boudjellal claims he has spoken to Savea following his comments.

“Oh yes. He is very nice, polite. They are very strong, with his wife, to complain about social networks. When he was in Fiji, he did not look unhappy. He tweeted that he was going to train hard. He will not be disappointed.

“He has a little more than a year of contract, it will be very long for him.’’

Savea responded to the initial damning criticism on social media with a post on Twitter, saying he was putting all the negativity behind him and heading into this week with a positive attitude.

Earlier this week, Savea’s wife Fatima hit back at Toulon fans on social media.

Toulon fans took to social media with abusive comments directed at Savea, labelling him a “fatman” with breasts bigger than his wife and saying they wished his mother got cancer.

Fatima responded, saying she was “absolutely disgusted by this s***” on Twitter.

“Take a minute to think about how your words can affect someone’s life and their mental health,” she tweeted.

“And people wonder why mental health in rugby had become a big problem. Take a minute to be considerate of people’s feelings instead of bashing them behind a keyboard or phone screen. You are only as good as your team is. It’s not an individual sport it’s a team sport and sometimes you can be let down by your team.”