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Paul Gallen wants to quit Sharks and has opened negotiations with Wests Tigers and Manly
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Wants out...Paul Gallen. Source: The Daily Telegraph
CRONULLA star Paul Gallen wants to quit the Sharks - and he has begun secret negotiations with Wests Tigers and Manly.
In a bombshell that will rock Cronulla's off-season, The Daily Telegraph can reveal Gallen is looking to play elsewhere in 2010 because he feels aggrieved by the club's hardline response to his on and off-field indiscretions.
After being stripped of the captaincy and fined $10,000 for a racial slur earlier this year, the aggressive international was last week slugged a further $10,000 for urinating in public.
Although half the latest penalty was suspended, Gallen is privately fuming and has told friends he no longer feels inclined to return to Sharks training after the Christmas break.
Despite having a further two years to run on his current deal, the 28-year-old now wants out immediately.
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In the week since the fine was imposed, approaches have been made on Gallen's behalf to the Tigers and Sea Eagles. Both clubs have shown interest in poaching the firebrand back-rower - provided they can accommodate him under their 2010 salary cap. Manly would appear to be in the box seat after Matt Orford's $250,000 contract extension talks collapsed last month.
The Sea Eagles could use that money to lure Gallen to the peninsula, where he would complete the NRL's most formidable back-row alongside Anthony Watmough and Glenn Stewart.
But stand-in CEO Wayne Honeywood last night said the preliminary talks only related to 2011.
"We've got two high-profile back-rowers (Watmough and Stewart) coming off contract and we wouldn't want to jeopardise that," Honeywood said.
The Tigers have less space after embarking on a 2010 recruitment blitz, which will soon include dual international Lote Tuqiri.
Wests CEO Steve Humphreys confirmed an approach had been made to his club, but declined to comment further on the matter.
Few, if any, of Cronulla's administrators know of the depth of their former captain's discontent.
Just three months shy of kicking off his 10th season at the Sharks, Gallen feels damning public comments from several Sharks officials don't befit his commitment to the black, white and blue.
The obvious sticking point for Gallen moving on is the fact he's contracted to Cronulla until the end of 2011.
However, there have been high-profile players in the recent past such as Craig Wing and Mark Gasnier who have escaped existing deals because their third-party payments have not been met.
Gallen is not required back at Sharks training until January 4.
Gallen's record of on-field controversy has landed him the game's longest judiciary record.
He's also fronted the Sharks board over a series of hot-headed acts, including pulling a player's head bandage and allegedly squeezing another's testicles.
Today's tele.
You want some starch in the pack - add this guy.
Seriously:
8 Galloway
9 Farah
10 Cayless
11 Ellis
12 Gallen
13 Heighington
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Wants out...Paul Gallen. Source: The Daily Telegraph
CRONULLA star Paul Gallen wants to quit the Sharks - and he has begun secret negotiations with Wests Tigers and Manly.
In a bombshell that will rock Cronulla's off-season, The Daily Telegraph can reveal Gallen is looking to play elsewhere in 2010 because he feels aggrieved by the club's hardline response to his on and off-field indiscretions.
After being stripped of the captaincy and fined $10,000 for a racial slur earlier this year, the aggressive international was last week slugged a further $10,000 for urinating in public.
Although half the latest penalty was suspended, Gallen is privately fuming and has told friends he no longer feels inclined to return to Sharks training after the Christmas break.
Despite having a further two years to run on his current deal, the 28-year-old now wants out immediately.
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In the week since the fine was imposed, approaches have been made on Gallen's behalf to the Tigers and Sea Eagles. Both clubs have shown interest in poaching the firebrand back-rower - provided they can accommodate him under their 2010 salary cap. Manly would appear to be in the box seat after Matt Orford's $250,000 contract extension talks collapsed last month.
The Sea Eagles could use that money to lure Gallen to the peninsula, where he would complete the NRL's most formidable back-row alongside Anthony Watmough and Glenn Stewart.
But stand-in CEO Wayne Honeywood last night said the preliminary talks only related to 2011.
"We've got two high-profile back-rowers (Watmough and Stewart) coming off contract and we wouldn't want to jeopardise that," Honeywood said.
The Tigers have less space after embarking on a 2010 recruitment blitz, which will soon include dual international Lote Tuqiri.
Wests CEO Steve Humphreys confirmed an approach had been made to his club, but declined to comment further on the matter.
Few, if any, of Cronulla's administrators know of the depth of their former captain's discontent.
Just three months shy of kicking off his 10th season at the Sharks, Gallen feels damning public comments from several Sharks officials don't befit his commitment to the black, white and blue.
The obvious sticking point for Gallen moving on is the fact he's contracted to Cronulla until the end of 2011.
However, there have been high-profile players in the recent past such as Craig Wing and Mark Gasnier who have escaped existing deals because their third-party payments have not been met.
Gallen is not required back at Sharks training until January 4.
Gallen's record of on-field controversy has landed him the game's longest judiciary record.
He's also fronted the Sharks board over a series of hot-headed acts, including pulling a player's head bandage and allegedly squeezing another's testicles.
Today's tele.
You want some starch in the pack - add this guy.
Seriously:
8 Galloway
9 Farah
10 Cayless
11 Ellis
12 Gallen
13 Heighington
