Jerome Luai has a week to seal the deal at the Chief's, 2 million per season tax free. He'll take it . He'll become the richest player in the league by the length of tge straight. D Brown would be earning 650 k after tax.
He'll become a free agent for 2027 - a gap.year essentially.
Should the club take Luai for a season, thus giving Lorenzo Talititiana another year to prepare.
Its looking more like Lorenzo is the man. Joash has played mainly fb in both cup and Nrl so it looks as if Ryles not pinning his hopes on him.
Would you take Luai??
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Thats assuming
a) we have cap space to afford his asking price which would theoretically be high, even for a gap year
b) he would want to come to Parra
He won't be offered $2 million tax free. They're saying he'd have to earn $2.2m in Australia to be equivalent to $1.2m tax free in PNG.
They aren't going to pay him more (or much more) than his current contract, it's just that he won't have to pay tax on it (and that in and of itself will still have a LOT of caveats attached to it - but that's the narrative as to why he'd even consider this).
But yeah, no one is paying Luai $2m/year...there's just a lot of people reading the news who don't grasp the whole "equivalent salary including tax" thing.
No. We cannot keep changing our spine every year. We need to build consistency in our spine. We blood Lorenzo in the 6 around rd 15 when our injured players come back.
Yes. Volkman and Pezet can form a killer NSW cup partnership that wins us NSW cup haha.
No thanks
Why doesn't he ust stay in Tigers for this gap year?
I won't say no to it but I'd rather throw Lorenzo honestly.
No thanks no more 1 year deals they are stupid as was the current one you need to settle on a 6 and stick to it