{"id":11910,"date":"2025-07-21T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11910\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:47:15","slug":"nrl-news-2025-the-mole-exclusive-gehamat-shibasaki-contract-brisbane-broncos-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11910\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025 | The Mole exclusive; Gehamat Shibasaki contract, Brisbane Broncos salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gehamat Shibasaki<\/a> is without doubt the fairytale story of 2025 – but it could all end in tears for his beloved Broncos.<\/p>\n

The journeyman centre, who came from the clouds to win a contract with the Broncos and then a Queensland State of Origin jersey, is a free agent on November 1 and has yet to receive a formal offer from the club.<\/p>\n

The Broncos want to keep the much-improved 27-year-old on their books, but are believed to have salary cap problems after signing several of their big names to long-term deals.<\/p>\n

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Shibasaki’s manager has been inundated with interest from rival clubs, with a shortage of quality centres throughout the NRL.<\/p>\n

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Gehamat Shibasaki.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“Gehamat loves the Broncos after the season he has had and is contracted to them for next season,” his manager Wade Rushton told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

“But they haven’t been able to make him an offer beyond that and so on November 1, I’m expecting quite a few clubs to show formal interest.<\/p>\n

“He’s had a fantastic year and is a great story – and he will keep working hard on his game.”<\/p>\n

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The Broncos have already been forced to release two members of their squad – Tyson Smoothy (Trinity Wakefield) and Selwyn Cobbo (Dolphins) – due to the salary cap squeeze.<\/p>\n

Several other players, including consistent forwards Kobe Hetherington Jack Gosiewski and Corey Jensen, are also set to come onto the open market come November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gehamat Shibasaki is without doubt the fairytale story of 2025 – but it could all end in tears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}