{"id":219964,"date":"2025-10-17T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:12:10","slug":"png-chiefs-seek-permission-to-sign-players-from-november-1-ahead-of-nrl-entry-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219964\/","title":{"rendered":"PNG Chiefs seek permission to sign players from November 1 ahead of NRL entry – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than two weeks until players contracted to the end of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season can negotiate and speak with rival teams, the NRL<\/a> transfer market could be set for a massive change.<\/p>\n

On November 1, the Perth Bears<\/a> will be able to speak with players as they attempt to lure them over to Western Australia<\/a> to join their maiden roster.<\/p>\n

However, they may not be the only expansion side that could potentially speak with rival players in what would spark a transfer frenzy over the next few months.<\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the 19th NRL<\/a> team, otherwise known as the PNG Chiefs<\/a> is preparing to approach the NRL<\/a> to request that they can negotiate with players despite not entering the competition until 2028.<\/p>\n

This would see a player agree to a contract with the newly-formed club for the 2028 NRL<\/a> season and ink a one-year contract with another club or their current team for 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be crazy not to engage [with players], but I just need to speak to the NRL<\/a> about it and whether we’re allowed to sign future contracts if they are free agents,\u201d the club’s Chairman Ray Dib told the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s something we’re going to have a discussion very soon about. That would be an ideal position [to talk to players from November 1 this year]. If we can do that then yeah, absolutely we should be doing that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the NRL<\/a> say we can do that and the player is willing to play with someone else in the interim, we’d be crazy not to see what’s available.\u201d<\/p>\n

This would see stars such as Payne Haas<\/a>, Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, Jayden Campbell<\/a>, and Harry Grant<\/a> available to be signed, giving them a head start in building their foundation roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than two weeks until players contracted to the end of the 2026 NRL season can negotiate and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-219964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219964","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=219964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}