{"id":13040,"date":"2025-07-22T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:26:13","slug":"gehamat-shibasaki-contract-at-brisbane-broncos-player-transfers-signings-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13040\/","title":{"rendered":"Gehamat Shibasaki contract at Brisbane Broncos, player transfers, signings, news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fairytale return of Gehamat Shibasaki could end in tears with the reborn Origin star facing being squeezed out of the Broncos due to a salary cap squeeze as clubs line up for his services.<\/p>\n

WWOS\u2019 The Mole reported the Broncos are keen to keep Shibasaki on their books, but are struggling to fit him in their salary cap after re-signing a number of stars to long-term deals. <\/p>\n

Shibasaki\u2019s manager has been inundated with interest in his client amid a lack of quality centres across the NRL. <\/p>\n

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\u201cGehamat loves the Broncos after the season he has had and is contracted to them for next season,\u201d his manager Wade Rushton told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they haven\u2019t been able to make him an offer beyond that and so on November 1, I\u2019m expecting quite a few clubs to show formal interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had a fantastic year and is a great story – and he will keep working hard on his game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Several other Broncos players, including forwards Kobe Hetherington Jack Gosiewski also face uncertain futures at the club. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has scored 18 tries in 46 NRL games, including 12 in 16 games in his return to the NRL in 2025, which also saw him debut for the Maroons. <\/p>\n

He is reportedly on just $85,000 this year, as a development contract player, which will rise to a still-modest $140,000 next season when he is promoted to a top-30 contract.<\/p>\n

Shibasaki told AAP he didn\u2019t want to get ahead of himself.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen it comes to (November 1) I will think about that but what I have been doing is narrowing my focus to now. That has been a big part of my success so far,\u201d Shibasaki said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is another thing I have got to sit down with my family and talk about.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at my age now and I am coming to the older side of things. I will focus on that when the time comes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fairytale return of Gehamat Shibasaki could end in tears with the reborn Origin star facing being squeezed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,14765,4428,9124,11101,14761,14763,763,2105,2485,4612,14766,761,762,158,677,701,14760,7889,14762,85,4440,14764,4566],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-battle-back","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-chris-hyde","tag-cooper-cronk","tag-development-contract-player","tag-faces-baptism","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-kobe-hetherington-jack-gosiewski","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-rivals-set","tag-salary-cap","tag-salary-cap-squeeze","tag-sports","tag-toby-sexton","tag-wade-rushton","tag-wide-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","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=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}