{"id":247929,"date":"2025-10-29T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:07:17","slug":"brutal-twist-in-nrls-worst-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247929\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal twist in NRL\u2019s worst kept secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daly Cherry-Evans will reportedly be unveiled as the Roosters\u2019 marquee signing for the 2026 season next week, with a fresh detail in his contract revealed.<\/p>\n

According to Code Sports<\/a>, the NRL\u2019s worst kept secret will be confirmed once the November 1 deadline passes, with his contract reportedly verbally agreed upon months ago.<\/p>\n

Originally Cherry-Evans\u2019 contract was understood to include one year as a player, with a second coming in a mentoring role.<\/p>\n

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It has now emerged the 36-year-old will have a clause in his contract, worth a reported $600,000 per-season, that could see him extended into the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

That decision has led 23-year-old Hugo Savala to go to the open market, being squeezed out of the Tricolours\u2019 halves.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans will partner Sam Walker under Trent Robinson next year, and unless he accepts a utility role, Savala will have to look elsewhere for regular first grade minutes.<\/p>\n

The rising star played 21 games in a breakout campaign, but the Roosters also have a number of playmakers who are set to come through the club\u2019s ranks in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans shocked the NRL world when he announced in March he would be leaving the Sea Eagles at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

For a large part of the season, his contract to sign with the Roosters was considered a formality, with the deal reportedly not being signed to avoid backlash from Manly fans.<\/p>\n

Originally published as NRL\u2019s worst kept secret set to be confirmed, fresh DCE detail revealed in Roosters switch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daly Cherry-Evans will reportedly be unveiled as the Roosters\u2019 marquee signing for the 2026 season next week, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[18743,64,63,145769,137960,4428,4430,145762,8405,145766,147081,763,147080,11402,147082,4601,27288,761,762,158,145632,4478,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-adam-reynolds","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bargain-star","12":"tag-breakout-campaign","13":"tag-brisbane-broncos","14":"tag-daly-cherry-evans","15":"tag-deadline-passes","16":"tag-eagles-v","17":"tag-extension-talks","18":"tag-fault-stand","19":"tag-fox-league","20":"tag-fresh-detail","21":"tag-hugo-savala","22":"tag-kept-secret-set","23":"tag-manly-sea-eagles","24":"tag-marquee-signing","25":"tag-national-rugby-league","26":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","27":"tag-nrl","28":"tag-pay-rises","29":"tag-sam-walker","30":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247929","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=247929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}