{"id":359244,"date":"2025-12-19T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:12:08","slug":"parramatta-eels-outside-back-set-to-sign-four-year-contract-with-new-team-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359244\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels outside back set to sign four-year contract with new team – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featuring in 20 matches for the Parramatta Eels<\/a> during the 2025 NRL<\/a> season, outside back Sean Russell<\/a> is reportedly set to exit the club to link up with a new team on a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n

Able to play a variety of positions in the back-line,\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0reports that Russell is set to become the latest signing for the Perth Bears<\/a> and will join Toby Sexton<\/a>, Jarry Newman, Liam Henry<\/a>, Iszac Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, Luke Smith<\/a> and Emarly Bitungane<\/a> at the NRL’s newest expansion side.<\/p>\n

Despite the Eels trying to keep him on their books, it is understood that he has signed a four-year deal with the Bears which will keep him in Western Australia<\/a> until at least the end of the 2030 NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is interest there so Sean has some decisions to make,\u201d Russell’s manager Gavin Orr told\u00a0Wide World of Sports\u00a0earlier this week.<\/a>
Meanwhile, the Eels remain locked in talks to land centre Brian Kelly<\/a> from the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> before the start of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season which will bolster the club’s depth in the outside backs.<\/p>\n

Contracted for a further 12 months, Kelly has been a mainstay of the Titans back-line since 2019 which has seen him register 143 matches and cross the line on 51 occasions.<\/p>\n

However, the once strike centre has struggled in recent years, which included only scoring three tries this season as the Titans failed to reach expectations and fell to second-last on the ladder.<\/p>\n

It is understood that he is also free to exit the club if he is able to find a new deal elsewhere, due to him not being in the plans of new head coach\u00a0Josh Hannay<\/a>, and has already attracted the attention of Super League<\/a> outfit, Warrington Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featuring in 20 matches for the Parramatta Eels during the 2025 NRL season, outside back Sean Russell is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-359244","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\/359244","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=359244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}