Just read an article saying the Broncos have approached a millionaire businessman to help secure Smith. How is this allowed? I thought it is against the rules for a club to approach an external person/company with the specific aim of increasing the financial offer to get a player to come to that club. How is this at arms length?
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Completely agree. Almost all TPA's are technically against the rules. There'd only be a handful of legitimate, arms length, TPA's in the entire game and they'd be the highly publicised ones you see in TV commercials for Powerade, Suzuki etc. But when Bob's Plumbing located in Penrith sponsors Nathan Cleary 100k that's just money topping up the cap. No way Bob would pay that if Cleary played elsewhere.
It's a master plan.
Smith to play 1 or 2 years.
Bellemy to be Director of the club
Smith to coach the team with Bellemy help.
The article doesn't mention TPA's, it kust says that they have enlisted a millionaire businessman to broker a deal. It's very grey I'll admit.
Yeah, the whole things seems a bit odd. Dont clubs have a staffing cost cap now? So engaing this millionaire, will the cost of his service mean they have to drop the wages of someone at the club?
If it was just to negotiate, why not some HR company or person, the fact they have approached a millionaire just leaves a bad taste in the mouth, while maybe not directly breaching any specific rules, is surely against the spirit of whole purpose of salary cap and TPA rules.