Peter Badel
The Daily Telegraph
December 06, 2010 12:00AM
Key players ... (L-R) Russell Crowe, Greg Inglis, John Lang and David Gallop
SOUTH Sydney will lodge four statutory declarations from third-party sponsors with the NRL this week as the club moves closer to securing Greg Inglis.
Concerned that salary cap auditor Ian Schubert privately declared he would block the Inglis deal, Souths boss Shane Richardson yesterday contacted NRL chief executive David Gallop seeking clarification on the issue.
An NRL spokesman said yesterday Schubert had yet to decide on the Inglis saga.
But the Rabbitohs are confident their $1.8 million deal will be ratified after a series of key developments.
The sponsors maintain in their statutory declarations that their third-party deals are bona fide arrangements.
The Daily Telegraph has also learned that Inglis's dispute with the Storm over a $113,000 legal bill has been settled, with the centre agreeing to pay an undisclosed amount.
Schubert has put Inglis's Souths deal firmly under the microscope but the contractual circus could end this week if he accepts the statutory declarations he requested from the Rabbitohs.
Inglis put the affair behind him yesterday when he married partner Sally Robinson on the Sunshine Coast.
"I'm confident we'll work through this and that Greg will be with us next year," Richardson said yesterday. "The NRL asked us for some statutory declarations in relation to third parties, we've done that and we'll deliver that to them this week."