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This is due to other clubs being unable to compete with what a player would earn if he decided to move to PNG, where he would receive tax-free income.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy feeling is that no one really took this seriously until Jarome Luai signed yesterday because it\u2019s always been tax-free dollars,\u201d Anasta said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone knew that there were going to be advantages around the salary cap with this but no one seemed to be concerned about this. <\/p>\n
\u201c(Now) I\u2019m getting a different vibe today after Jarome signed. I\u2019ve spoken to a few club officials who aren\u2019t complaining yet but are concerned that down the track.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While it was common knowledge that the Chiefs were going to have an advantage when it came to recruiting high-profile NRL stars, Anasts warned that it would have more of an impact on the players’ earnings, with the minimum to around $500,000 a season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of people are looking at the top-tier players and the impact it can have at their club,\u201d Anasta added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people under-estimate the lower-tier, middle-tier players that really glue the whole team together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the Bulldogs offer a player $300,000 and then you\u2019ve got PNG who can offer the same amount of money but it\u2019s really double. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen you get players who are really high quality at a reasonable price, they\u2019re going to leave their clubs because you it\u2019s going to be hard for teams now to get players for unders.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘They are concerned now!’ Pull to PNG | 02:46<\/p>\n
The worry from Anasta and the NRL 360 panel comes less than 24 hours after it was confirmed that Jarome Luai had become the expansion team\u2019s inaugural signing.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a host of other big names such as Brian To\u2019o, Liam Martin, Mitch Kenny, Joseph Manu and Nathan Cleary have been linked with a potential move to the side. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to inflate the market,\u201d Code Sports\u2019 Michael Carayannis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt it will inflate the market and the fact that Jarome is the first domino to fall makes it more attractive. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve heard from players, we\u2019ve heard from agents that players have been telling their agents they are keen to explore PNG. Now that Jarome is a done deal, that is just going to amplify,\u201d<\/p>\n
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These comments say Anasta, a former player, compare it to the now-defunct Super League competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt kind of reminded me of Super League. The Broncos back in the late-90s, they won a few premierships, won the Super League and then they won a couple more in the years following,\u201d Anasta continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had eight or nine internationals. They had a lot of money off-field in terms of third-party deals where they could lure players there and they had this red-hot roster that no other team could compete with in the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s going to get to that level but that\u2019s the type of position they could be in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braith Anasta has likened the introduction of the PNG Chiefs to the now-defunct Australian Super League competition due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-638308","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\/638308","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=638308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}