{"id":955274,"date":"2026-11-06T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955274\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:30:11","slug":"details-of-nathan-clearys-astonishing-wests-tigers-contract-offer-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955274\/","title":{"rendered":"Details of Nathan Cleary&#8217;s astonishing Wests Tigers contract offer revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> have been going on an all-out assault in trying to secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/nathan-cleary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Cleary<\/a> in a $9 million package deal which would see his partner Mary Fowler play for the Central Coast Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>The incredible deal has been in negotiations over the past few days, with News Corp revealing the Tigers owners, Holman Barnes, who also own the Mariners, engineered the offer and are very keen to get the deal done.<\/p>\n<p>Both Cleary and Fowler are iconic figures in their own respective codes, with the latter currently carving it up for Manchester City in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been a bid to get her back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> and closer to Nathan with a combined annual price tag of around $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler&#8217;s yearly chunk would have exceeded her current City deal by a fair amount in the ambitious attempt to lure her to the A-League Women competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Matildas star has been with City for the past four years, and recently reached 100 games for the club in September.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s looking extremely likely Cleary will re-sign at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/penrith-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penrith Panthers<\/a> as earlier reports emerged of a two-year deal with a further two-year player option, which he is ready to sign.<\/p>\n<p>Cleary is off-contract at the end of the 2027 season, meaning since the end of last week, he has been free to field offers from rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> clubs.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2280588923-scaled.jpg.webp\" alt=\"SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Nathan Cleary poses for a portrait during a NSW Blues Men's State of Origin  fan meet &amp; greet at  on June 09, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA &#8211; JUNE 09: Nathan Cleary poses for a portrait during a NSW Blues Men&#8217;s State of Origin fan meet &amp; greet at on June 09, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/png-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PNG Chiefs<\/a> have been told by Cleary&#8217;s management they are not interested in a move to the NRL&#8217;s latest expansion project, with their attention understood to be turning swiftly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/sam-walker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Walker<\/a> following his contract extension being pulled by the Roosters.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have cash to throw at Cleary at the $1.7-$1.8 million mark per season, which could make him the highest earner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> given his glamour status in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Cleary has yet to officially put a red line through the deal as he did with the Chiefs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/jett-clearys-penrith-return-confirmed-full-details-announced-260735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but given the Panthers have just announced his younger brother Jett returning to the club<\/a>, it&#8217;s unlikely of an exit from the foot of the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the past week, the Wests Tigers have been going on an all-out assault in trying to secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-955274","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\/955274","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=955274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}