{"id":646077,"date":"2026-05-03T02:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:21:12","slug":"tigers-star-signs-shock-mega-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646077\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers star signs shock \u2018mega deal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benji Marshall and the Wests Tigers have reportedly locked in gun fullback Jahream Bula in a big boost to the club.<\/p>\n

Nine\u2019s Danny Weidler reports Bula has agreed to a multi-million dollar contract<\/a> described by insiders as a \u201cmega deal\u201d.<\/p>\n

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It is expected to keep the 24-year-old at the club for several more years and will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Bula is under contract until the end of the season but had a player option in his favour.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs were heavily linked to the talented No.1 with Phil Gould publicly expressing his admiration for Bula.<\/p>\n

The development comes after Code Sports Brent Read only last week revealed contract talks had stalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think (a decision is fast approaching). They\u2019ve been locked in talks over an extension and it hasn\u2019t happened and that suggests to me it probably won\u2019t happen before the deadline in two weeks,\u201d Read said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the ball is in the Tigers court. They can take up that option for $900,000 for next year. I think they\u2019ll work hard to get something done in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

The deal is a major win for Marshall after Jarome Luai\u2019s decision last week to join the PNG Chiefs as their first signing.<\/p>\n

Attention then immediately turned to the Tigers\u2019 off-contract stars Bula and Terrell May with the prop signing a three-year extension on Friday.<\/p>\n

Originally published as Hands off Gus! Huge Benji boost as Tigers set to lock in superstar on \u2018mega deal\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benji Marshall and the Wests Tigers have reportedly locked in gun fullback Jahream Bula in a big boost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-646077","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\/646077","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=646077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}