maybe we'll get lucky. Hages becomes coach of Manly and signs all these players off us!!!
But seriously, it is still better that Parra subsidises their pay for them to goto another team.
e.g. Weller - $100K : goes to Souths for $70K - we pay the $30K then at least we have $70K freed up.
Multiply this by a few players and it is enough to cement a decent player or upgrade a junior.
Furthermore, Players do not want to be in Wenty even if they are on big money.
Coz at the end of their contract, they'll be lucky to get anything
You're right about that - and in the end it might just be what drives some players to take a lesser deal and go elsewhere.
If a player "finds" a 70k deal elsewhere, and decides they'd like to take it for the chance to actually play, then it does NOT cost us anything. It's only if we 'sack them' and then they're picked up by someone else.
The problem with the idea of paying 30k for a 100k player who no longer plays with us is that it
only leaves 70k leftover. And a team MUST have 25 players as part of their top 25 unless a special exception occurs. Which would mean that you'd have to sign someone for the minimum (50-55k) and then you'd only be freeing up about 15k.
So let's say we ditched Hauraki and Oake, and brought in 2 guys at minimum contract (Robinson and Horo for example) - that only gives us an extra 30k to fiddle with. It's not really that helpful. OR we could bring in one minimum contract guy, and it leaves us 85k to offer someone - not going to land us any big stars...
Whereas if Hauraki and Oake both find deals elsewhere and are happy to go, we now have 200k to play with - or, one minimum guy, and 145k to offer to someone.
145k is slightly more appealing I would think?
Big Ben frees up almost as much cash as Oake and Hauraki combined...
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