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Littlebittipsy said:

We’re optimistic’: Panthers prepared to up Luai offer to ward off Tigers​


Panthers officials are prepared to increase their offer to Jarome Luai of a contract longer than two years to ward off big-money interest from Wests Tigers.

Luai, along with superstar halfback Nathan Cleary, will be back on deck on Friday when he begins pre-season training with the premiers.

The race for the Luai’s signature has become the most talked-about story over the summer after the 26-year-old, three-time premiership winner was paid a personal visit by Tigers coach Benji Marshall, and last week met with Canterbury supremo Phil Gould.

There have been suggestions Luai wanted to make a call on his future for 2025 and beyond by the time he resumed training.

But Penrith chief executive of rugby league Matt Cameron said the club was happy to give Luai all the time he wanted. The Panthers’ offer is reportedly worth around $850,000 a season for two years – some $300,000 less per season than the offer on the table from the Tigers, which is for four years and includes the chance to play halfback.

A third year on the Panthers offer, which would take Luai through until the end of 2027 – the same year his good friend Cleary is up for renewal – might just be enough to convince him to stay put.

“We’ll get Jarome back in the building on Friday and pick up our conversation from there,” Cameron told this masthead.

We’ve been in constant dialogue with him. He spoke to the coach [Ivan Cleary] just last week. We’ve been 100 per cent transparent with him, and he’s been 100 per cent transparent with us as to what is going on.

We just want to get him back in the building, make sure his shoulder is OK, then talk about his contract. There’s no rush from us. This talk of him wanting to sort out his contract before returning to training has never come from us, so I can’t comment on that.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we’re optimistic we’ll get a deal done with Jarome.

“It will not be all about the money. And we’ve got a pretty good track record of players recommitting to the club and taking a little less for the chance to pursue something pretty special.”
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The Panthers CEO is doing a fantastic job of painting a picture for the Panthers fan base and everyone else.

Everything being said makes it seem like if Luai leaves it is completely on him and nothing to do with the club itself. The supposed 1.4million offer from other clubs that was leaked surely came from within Panthers organisation aswell.

If Penrith were going to keep Luai and were confident about it, they would have kept their mouth shut and just announced his re-signing in the next fortnight. That's how they would normally do business.

I might be wrong, but this makes me feel even more confident Luai is ready to walk.
 
My money is still on Luai having made his mind up to leave Penrith when he decided to sign with Black Money.

Otherwise he could have re-signed with Penrith then & not had to forgo the management commission & other fees.

It will be between us & Bulldogs.

He’s big on family & both clubs enable him to secure good coin & still live where he is or not move far.
 
Last couple of years
3x Star players
Viliame Kikau
Stephen Crichton
Matt Burton
All took the Money,
and went to clubs in
Sydney so not to much
Disruption for their families,
I can’t see Luai being
any different.
To much difference in
the $ offered for him to
stay at the riff.
It is business not sport
any more.
 
Luai will leave back to back premiers for back to back spooners? Tough ask. He can have an illustrious career running off Cleary or getting hospital passes from Douhei.
I know who'd I choose.

I think we have been played again. Player managers love coming to Tigers to get inflated desperate offers to run and show the current clubs the leverage they have.
It's the Issac Moses playbook that all the managers have adopted.
 
I think this becomes really interesting. Many think Luai will come to Tigers only for money now. After Penrith's new offer of an extra year of guaranteed 850K at a good team, I think if he leaves, it means only one thing. He wants to be in charge. He wants to be the man. And that can only be good. Not just coming here for the money
 
Penrith don't have to sell anything to Luai they just have to get the figures right. They were and are still in the box seat if they want to retain him.
 
earl said:
I care about winning games and the players we have not raping, bashing or killing anyone. If he has a habit of whining on social media I'll do my best to ignore the moron like I ignore a whole bunch of morons.
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Gees, you're a hard task master earl.
Nothin like a bit of raping, bashing or killing every now and then.
After all, this is Rugba Leege Yuh know 👊 😛.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I think Luai is a good example of how the brash, bravado “look at me” personality that’s the norm in the US, sticks out like a sore thumb. Over there, he’s a dime a dozen. In Australia our culture is completely different. Though, there is a younger generation who are trying to make that the norm here as well. Jarryd Hayne was another who tried to market himself the same way. When he kicked that field goal against us to win the game at Ctown in 2016, he started shouting “this is my house”, and I remember in the press conference after the game, Nathan Friend rolling his eyes when recounting it. He was good about it, but you could tell he was a bit like “wtf”. Anyway, with such a big emphasis on social media these days, the self promotion and the ego boosting is only going to get worse.
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You've been doing some top-quality posts GNR4LIFE: since you came back from you break from WTF.
Good on Yuh. 🙂
 
BZN said:
You've been doing some top-quality posts GNR4LIFE: since you came back from you break from WTF.
Good on Yuh. 🙂
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He never had a break, he used a different account because he had issues with the GNR one. He was Fallen Angel he’s admitted this himself.
 
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