{"id":825724,"date":"2026-07-26T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825724\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:14:12","slug":"nrl-news-2026-penrith-panthers-captain-isaah-yeo-reacts-to-contract-reports-live-tv-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825724\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Penrith Panthers captain Isaah Yeo reacts to contract reports, live TV appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panthers<\/a> captain Isaah Yeo<\/a> was forced to sit awkwardly and answer questions about his future during a live television appearance. <\/p>\n

Yeo remains contracted to Penrith until the end of next season, but there has been plenty made about whether he and some high-profile teammates including Nathan Cleary would re-sign or test the open market on November 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Isaah Yeo watches on during Penrith\u2019s round 21 game.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Reports surfaced on Saturday evening that Yeo was going to begin talks with the Panthers about a new contract – something he clearly wasn\u2019t aware of.<\/p>\n

When asked by the Fox League panel about the reports and whether he had moved to extend his time at Penrith, the captain was left red-faced.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, not yet,\u201d Yeo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI touched on it at the start of the year. I think I assumed everybody would go to November 1. My perfect world would be staying at Penrith. There was nothing that was going to happen over the Origin period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love conversations to maybe start now, but that is news to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might be things happening behind the scenes that I\u2019m not aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeo has played all of his 281 first grade games for the Panthers and while many expect him to re-sign, nothing is set in stone yet.<\/p>\n

It comes as Liam Martin<\/a>\u2019s management push for an upgraded contract for the four-time premiership winner. <\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the tough back-rower is earning about $780,000 per season on his current deal, but wants closer to $850,000.<\/p>\n

Martin and his manager Allan Gainey will meet with the club this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers captain Isaah Yeo was forced to sit awkwardly and answer questions about his future during a live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-825724","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\/825724","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=825724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}