Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n‘Something’s Transpired’ – Crawley | 02:48<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought if the Wests Tigers had to pay him $200,000, maybe even $300,000. Okay, that\u2019s a smart decision from the Tigers.<\/p>\n
\u201c$500,000, I start to think oh, you\u2019re paying a guy $500,000 who is an elite player to leave your club and on the flip side Parramatta get him for $700,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eels coach Jason Ryles also used the word \u201celite\u201d when asked about his club\u2019s interest in Luai prior to the one-year deal being confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen elite players become available, we are always interested and we are in a position to execute on stuff,\u201d Ryles said at the time.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Fox League\u2019s Paul Crawley believed Luai\u2019s arrival was a huge boost to Parramatta\u2019s hopes of pushing for a finals spot next season.<\/p>\n
Luai is a proven winner and was an integral figure in the Panthers\u2019 four premierships spanning from 2021 to 2024, possessing a wealth of finals experience.<\/p>\n
Both the Tigers and Eels could be pushing for one of the last remaining spots in the top eight next year, but now the merger club have to compete against the star they let go.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have two clubs potentially who will be vying for a similar spot next year at that part of the bottom half of the eight of they are lucky,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
Luai to join the Eels in 2027 | 03:01<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you have given them a $500,000 bonus? I am not sure I agree with the short-term fixes all the time after the Pezet deal and this is different.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he has played with Mitchell (Moses) before and it has worked. But when you put it in perspective, getting an elite, marquee player for $700,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crawley also explained that Luai\u2019s arrival could serve as a stopgap before the Eels make a big play for an off-contract star, should their young guns not deliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou put the list up last night of potential players coming off-contract at the end of next season and you see a name like Matt Burton sitting there or even Blaize Talagi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo even if these young kids that are coming through at the Eels don\u2019t work out, there are options going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut from a Tigers sense, yeah, to me it\u2019s almost two years down the drain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarome Luai\u2019s contract saga has come to an end and the superstar five-eighth\u2019s future is now locked in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-799626","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\/799626","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=799626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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