{"id":446573,"date":"2026-02-26T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:41:07","slug":"irfu-to-hold-crunch-talks-with-andy-farrell-as-saracens-table-huge-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446573\/","title":{"rendered":"IRFU to hold crunch talks with Andy Farrell as Saracens table huge sum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> bosses are set to meet with Andy Farrell\u2019s representatives as they look to hold off a \u00a31 million a year bid from his former club, Saracens, to take him back to North London after next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>IRFU Performance Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/david-humphreys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Humphreys<\/a> is set for a meeting this week as he tries to discover Farrell\u2019s plans beyond the 2027 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> in France.<\/p>\n<p>The IRFU are keen to offer Farrell, who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> to success in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> last summer, an extension to his deal, but cannot match the offer on the table from the Gallagher PREM outfit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/saracens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saracens<\/a> want Farrell to be the long-term successor to Mark McCall, who stands down at the end of the season and will be replaced by their technical adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Venter, but it\u2019s likely he is only keeping the seat warm for Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell ended his career with the North London club after switching codes from Super League giants Wigan Warriors in March 2005, before becoming a skills coach and then a first-team coach.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell has admitted that he is loving life in Ireland but has always stopped short of committing to his future, which has perhaps encouraged Sarries to offer him a job after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He was pretty non-committal about his future plans when speaking to the Irish Independent this week, saying he was just focusing on doing the best job he could do for Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m contracted till after the World Cup, that\u2019s 21 months or whatever. It\u2019s a long time. Again, I love doing what I do. It\u2019s not just me with decisions like that. But for now, the only thing on my mind is doing as good a job as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He could link up with his son, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> and Lions fly-half Owen, who has been tipped to join the Saracens staff when his two-year deal runs out at the end of next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland bosses are set to meet with Andy Farrell\u2019s representatives as they look to hold off a \u00a31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}