NRL off-contract players: Greg Inglis wants to finish his NRL career with Brisbane Broncos
- by: Chris Garry EXCLUSIVE
- From: The Courier-Mail
- February 22, 2015 12:00AM
GREG Inglis wants to finish his career at the Broncos, the club he rejected in 2010 just days after agreeing to a handshake deal.
Inglis is the most in demand footballer of any code and
has admitted he is considering his options for next season despite being contracted to South Sydney until 2017.
A million dollar transfer fee will stop the Broncos or any NRL club from taking him off the Rabbitohs.
However, two agents in Europe are shopping Inglis to clubs on behalf of his manager Allan Gainey.
The Sunday Mail can reveal that Inglis hopes to his finish his career in the Queensland capital after buying a house in Brisbane suburb Sandgate last year.
He spent more than a month of the off-season renovating the house with wife Sally.
Gainey said the Wayne Bennett factor meant the Broncos were an option for his clients next contract but regardless of his next move Inglis wanted to settle in Brisbane.
Sally will be periodically living in their Sandgate house this year and it is the place Inglis wants to settle down in to finish his footballing life.
Inglis spent his final years of high school in Brisbane while attending Wavell State High.
He has bought a house in Brisbane and Sally is living up there at times during the year, Gainey said.
Thats where he will eventually settle.
He is enjoying life. Hes very busy.
He spent the eight weeks up in Brisbane. He is doing up a house up there and when hes not playing thats where he spends most of his time.
Now that Wayne is there the Broncos are a chance.
The Broncos believed they had Inglis in 2010, but on the day he was meant to fly up to sign the deal he reneged.
The ramifications are still being felt by the Broncos, who have struggled since he knocked them back.
Still only 28, Ingliss next deal will be his most important.
His contract with South Sydney runs out at the age of 30 meaning he will have only five years left in the code.
He would ideally spend half of that in Europe before settling in with the Broncos.
The Australian Rugby Union is also considering an approach to Inglis.
It would be almost impossible for the ARU to raise the funds to pay South Sydneys transfer fee and their only chance of getting him would be once his deal at the Rabbitohs finished.
He has two years to go on his contract but I am getting inquiries every day. Even the Sheffield Eagles, a division two club contacted me, Gainey said.
He is captain of Souths so I dont think he is considering moving any time soon.
It would be a monstrous transfer fee payable to South Sydney. Souths wont let him walk.
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