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Booyah!!!
IF this bit has legs, it says all the gushing bullshit about wanting to play for parra etc etc is rubbish ... and everyone lapping up the second coming of jesus is having a tug
if they paid $300k it would free up $900k in their cap
If he wants to leave, why should they pay him anything?
well he could stay and then they have to pay him $1.2 million
I just don't agree with the whole;
No-one writes a Hayne article better than my mate Nick.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...e/news-story/54c77c61e1316d89620d327232f5ae70
Eels prepare a cut-price deal to lure Jarryd Hayne
The Parramatta Eels are preparing to make a cut-price bid of a maximum of $600,000 to lure the team’s former superstar Jarryd Hayne back to the club.
- The Australian
- 12:00AM November 3, 2017
- Nick Tabakoff
The Australian understands Hayne’s management are receptive to the deal, provided that his current club, the Gold Coast Titans, are willing to pay another $300,000-$400,000 towards his 2018 salary. This would potentially see him looking at a pay packet of up to $1 million, before any endorsements and other side deals are taken into account.
Hayne has a year remaining on his deal with the Gold Coast but reports yesterday suggested he had informed the Titans he wanted to return to Sydney.
It is understood Parramatta is willing to make Hayne a strict one-year offer of between $500,000 and $600,000, which the club can comfortably accommodate with room to spare within its 2018 salary cap.
The fact that the club is willing to proceed with the deal indicates that coach Brad Arthur approves of the one-year contract offer. Hayne was a very public supporter of Arthur being elevated to the role of Parramatta coach in 2014, when Jason Taylor was in line for the role.
There are also believed to have been informal discussions between Parramatta recruiting officials and Hayne’s management.
But the squeaky-clean new Eels board of directors — which replaced the previous board that presided over the club’s unprecedented program of salary cap rorting — will be insisting on full financial rigour before any final deal is struck.
One likely requirement will be that the Eels will, unlike the Titans, not offer Hayne an extra year’s option. There will be an insistence that Hayne first proves himself on the field, so that the limit of the club’s potential liability is only the amount of the one-year contract.
Parramatta CEO Bernie Gurr said late yesterday: “We don’t comment publicly on player negotiations.”
Attempts to contact Hayne’s manager Wayne Beavis yesterday were unsuccessful.
Part of the attraction for Parramatta is finding a marquee player for a bargain. Just last year, the club offered Hayne an average of $850,000 a year over three years, $250,000-$300,000 more than they are now willing to pay.
But they were ultimately trumped by the Titans. Hayne was signed to a $1.2m a season deal with the Gold Coast club, initially for 2017, with a further one-year option for the same amount in his favour for 2018.
He triggered this option earlier this year, effectively locking him into the 2018 contract as well.
There was a crucial commercial component to this deal. Byron Bay-based online travel agency TripADeal — a corporate supporter of the Titans — paid $400,000 of the $1.2m-a-year contract, as a Marquee Player Agreement for Hayne.
But there would be a big question-mark over whether the deal would continue if Hayne moved to Sydney. TripADeal co-founder Norm Black said in August, when there were doubts about Hayne’s future with the club: “Regardless of what takes place with Jarryd Hayne, TripADeal’s commitment has always been with Gold Coast, with the Titans.”
When I attempted to contact Black late yesterday, he was on a plane to Europe.
It is believed if Hayne is able to get a total of about $1 million a year to come back to Sydney, even though it represents a $200,000 cut on his current salary, this would be attractive because it allows him to be closer to his young family in NSW.
There are also suggestions Hayne wants to play with his best mate, Tim Mannah, and other former Eels teammates once more.
Yesterday, Hayne was insisting on Twitter: “I have NOT instructed my manger to SPEAK to teams in Sydney.”
However, what is clear is that after initial euphoria last year on the Gold Coast about Hayne’s signing, the star recruit and the club have endured a difficult 2017, in which the Titans significantly underperformed on the field after a stellar 2016 in which they made the finals. This underperformance cost coach Neil Henry his job.
Hayne was widely criticised in the media for his on-field performances, but it was Henry who was punted by the club after a very public falling out with his biggest-name player.
A key incentive for the Titans in giving the Eels $300,000 to $400,000 towards Hayne’s salary would be attracting new stars.
Allowing Hayne to move to the Eels would free up hundreds of thousands in its salary cap that could allow the club to purchase another marquee player.
