They are Penrith players
Four of the biggest names at the Penrith Panthers have been told they could be forced out of the club if they don’t take a pay cut.
The future of representative stars Michael Jennings, Tim Grant, Lachlan Coote and Sam McKendry is under fresh scrutiny after they were called to a meeting with Penrith’s general manager Phil Gould on October 30 – just two days before the club’s first day of pre-season training.
But instead of a pre-season pep-talk, The Sunday Telegraph has learned that Gould told the club’s four biggest names that if they weren’t prepared to remove a clause in their contract, which relates to each player earning a percentage of any increase in the NRL’s $5 million salary cap, then one of the them may have to leave.
More than two weeks after the meeting, all four players are refusing to have the clause removed from their contract and it threatens to spark a stand-off between the players and Gould.
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The bombshell was delivered to the players as a result of the huge pressure on Penrith’s salary cap, which is underpinned by the size of the salaries and length of the deals they signed under the previous management.
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