Happens all the time, there are managers notorious for doing it, basically they will get one client signed on a decent contract that a club doesn't even want, just so the manager can get him a gig somewhere, on the condition the manager helps the club land a bigger fish they want. So the manager will do everything in their power to make it happen, demand overs from a club the player might want to join, cause problems with clubs. Hide offers for the player. Sometimes the manager will get offers from clubs they know the player doesn't want to join, like us 4 years ago. They'll go to the player and say club A are offering overs, if you go you'll be paid well but won't win anything. Then they say club B is offering less but has a better set up, is more stable and I would recommend it for your career. That club being the one who helped get the first player off the managers books, the manager then does whatever they can to convince the player to sign with them. Other thing they do that's really sneaky is when Isaac Moses was suspended for the Parramatta salary cap scandal, his companies clients, while they were in negotiations with their agents talking to clubs, Moses was the one in those meetings running the negotiations, he would just use the other manager he employs for the signature. Even though he was banned. N.R.L knew, they did nothing, the clubs wernt going to complain or they'd lose access to his clients. It was a huge farce.
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