{"id":357791,"date":"2025-12-19T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:12:12","slug":"tigers-provide-update-on-jahream-bulas-future-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357791\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers provide update on Jahream Bula’s future – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wests Tigers<\/a> interim CEO Shaun Mielekamp has claimed Jahream Bula<\/a> should re-sign with the embattled joint-venture club before the start of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

Bula’s contract situation has been one under the microscope in recent times, with the star fullback holding a player option into 2027.<\/p>\n

He is no guarantee to take it up, although most reports have suggested a new contract with the joint-venture is where things are heading, despite the’s club’s off-field issues and the fact Bula has now been able to negotiate with rival outfits for a month and a half, dating back to November 1.<\/p>\n

Mielekamp acknowledged the difficulties in Bula’s dcontract on SEN Radio, but said all parties wanted Bula to stay, and a deal should be worked out before kick-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think your words are wise there around it being a unique situation,\u201d Mielekamp told SEN 1170 Breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we do have a player who wants to stay. We’ve got a club who wants him to stay. We’ve got a coach who wants him to stay. So, you start there and you go, \u2018right, things are gonna be okay’.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s really just a matter of just working really closely with his agent and getting through what is the best model to make sure that we unlock this moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s still a little early to actually definitively say how it’ll play out, but I’m very, very confident speaking to Jahream himself directly, and feeling really positive that everyone wants this to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need to dot the I’s and cross the T’s and that’ll take care of itself before the season kicks off.”<\/p>\n

It’s believed Bula could command close to seven figures when he does put pen to paper, while it’s unclear which other clubs have made contact with his agent Isaac Moses.<\/p>\n

Bula’s re-signing will be a sigh of relief for the Tigers, and so too would Jarome Luai<\/a> removing player options out of his contract, although that has been all but ruled out by the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers interim CEO Shaun Mielekamp has claimed Jahream Bula should re-sign with the embattled joint-venture club before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-357791","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\/357791","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=357791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}