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The player presumably has a massive contract for next year, the last he will ever get. There aren't many incentives for him to terminate it early other than being offered even more money over the next two years. The offer to renegotiate at the end of 2022 (after giving up his 2023 money) would be the absolute worst option for him. Great for us (and the Knights if they could get him off the books next year) but awful for the player.
You'd think with the money we've saved on our shit facilities we would have enough to pay overs for a couple of 32 year old front rowers.
Are you saying the Knights aren't in business to do us any favours? What about Manly?
You might be semi-literate, merkin, but at least you understand how shit works. Must be why you're a powerful millionaire.
Time to school Barry
Valid but probably another poor performance by our team heading up retention and recruitment. Did we Lowball them? Most likely.
Likely they were more balls deep with Taupau then when wind of that falling through hit, someone (possibly even Klemmer’s manager) made the approach.
Time to school Barry
Actually Barry, if that is your real name, we wouldn’t have had to take over any of his remaining contract. We would’ve offered him a completely separate contract.
However in practice, Klemmer would’ve then return to Knights and said “they pay me this much, you pay me rest (in an agreed manner) or me stay on your books for rest of contract.”
To which of course the Knights would say “This contract? Why it’s not worth the paper it’s written on!” and torn it up in front of his face.
As I schooled Barry, in your scenario that would have left Klemmer with no contract for next year. Do you reckon Klemmer would be more comfortable with his current guaranteed contract, or at best renegotiating a lesser contract going forward?
Yes but that is his decision. The Knights don’t care how much we’re offering him. They’re just negotiating with Klemmer how much they pay him out or whether they force him to honour contract.
As i mentioned get this yr sorted. It helps Knights to the tune of $200k. It doesn't nullify the remaining 2 years. In any case that may have been the sticking point.
It came down to the last day because we didn't need to fill the 30th spot until today. I'm sure they've been looking at options for weeks or even months. But all the good players are already under contract, so getting them requires three parties to agree (both clubs plus player). What's surprising is that any deal gets done at all. The Roosters and Storm must have some kind of sweetener that stops them having to pay too much under the cap.
I assume this is what Barry meant.Time to school Barry
Actually Barry, if that is your real name, we wouldn’t have had to take over any of his remaining contract. We would’ve offered him a completely separate contract.
However in practice, Klemmer would’ve then return to Knights and said “they pay me this much, you pay me rest (in an agreed manner) or me stay on your books for rest of contract.”
Barry would never say anything like this though.
