Officials from the Canterbury Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels have met with Lachlan Galvin and tabled offers of around $750,000 a season to the 19-year-old playmaker.
The Bulldogs and Eels held meetings with Galvin on Wednesday as he prepares to make a decision on his future as early as this weekend.
The offers from the powerhouse Sydney clubs are for considerably less than the salary Wests Tigers chief executive Shane Richardson was willing to pay Galvin when he prepared a contract upgrade and extension worth close to $6 million over five years. It’s believed the offers from Parramatta and Canterbury are for a shorter duration.
Galvin’s decision to turn down Richardson’s offer and potentially accept $3.5 million less to move across town speaks to his frustration with his development at the Tigers.
The Tigers have attached a transfer fee of close to $165,000 to Galvin’s release before November 1 – a sum Parramatta and Canterbury are willing to pay. It is considerably less than the fee of close to seven figures the Tigers initially sought to impose.
The Bulldogs have long maintained a strategy of only signing players who want to play for the club. Sources with knowledge of the situation talking on the condition of anonymity told the Herald Galvin has a strong desire to play under Cameron Ciraldo at the Bulldogs.
Increasing the appeal of the Bulldogs is Galvin’s relationship with assistant coach Luke Vella, a close friend and Galvin’s former high school teacher.
Galvin has also struck up a relationship with Parramatta halfback Mitchell Moses, who has been in the playmaker’s ear about joining the Eels to wear the No.6 jersey set to be vacated by Dylan Brown when he joins Newcastle on a record $13 million deal next year.
Galvin’s future at the Bulldogs wouldn’t be as straightforward, with Matt Burton the incumbent five-eighth at Belmore. Galvin’s potential arrival would all but end Toby Sexton’s time at the club and put Ciraldo in a position where he has to develop a No.7 from within.
Galvin last month informed the Tigers of his desire to depart at the end of his contract, which runs until the end of 2026.
Parramatta haven’t hidden their desire to lure Galvin, a childhood Eels supporter. Parramatta coach Jason Ryles sees hims as the ideal replacement for Brown.
“I made my [interest] clear a couple of weeks ago. That hasn’t changed, so we’ll wait and see what happens,” Ryles said. “The rule is you can’t negotiate until they get permission to, so until that happens we’ll keep our position there. Lots of strange things happen in footy [though], but we’ll make sure we do the right thing with the NRL.”
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If it comes down to negotiations and coaching I think we are screwed oh well at least sentimental value is on the eels side.Maybe if we get down on our knees and beg hard enough he might come.
We need this to spin the narrative that we 1 can actually attract young up n coming talent and reverse the narrative of losing high profile juniors.
Even bigger JR needs a signature signing to announce his era as the coach.
Yep JR still needs a big signing and if Galvin doesnt join it should be the end of the dum fucks O'Niel and all people in that relevant position.
I don't know mate MoN like McElduff are protected mate they've got these 9 yr stints that seems can only be ended by either the chairman or ceo.I think they got there own backs.I don't see MoN going anywhere unless the mentioned fire his arse or the 9 yr time limit runs it's course.
He is a 19 year old boy, haven't we got female directors to get on their knees to facilitate these matters.
Wiz would do it for 100k....he is giving up 12 lomax's to see galvin come ...to the eels.
hahaha Ill give you that one poppa
If Parra want Galvin, we will get him. as alluded to someone else, Parra could potentially offer Tigers $200k transfer fee just to see what doggies do.
We don't want to be paying extra for players just to get them in the jersey. If Galvin wants to play for Parra he will. If he goes to the bulldogs we just have to move on and find a player who actually wants to play for the club. That's how you build this thing back up. Galvin no doubt has talent but seems like he can't stand losing and would struggle sitting at the bottom of the ladder with us. Need to be mentally tough
of course Eil, agree with you 100%. the point i should have made clearer is Tigers are holding the balance of power here and can ultimately decide if / when / who Galvin can be released to. we could play silly buggers and try and force doggies to send more of their Soft cap, which the transfer needs to come out of.
SEN were talking about the soft cap last night, very interesting what happens if you over spend it, how its used and what the reprocuscuions of overspending (50% on 1st discretian, 75% 2nd discertian) from memory.
Offering the tigers more money doesn't do a single thing to get Galvin to the eels, it's his choice not the tigers
its the tigers choice to release him though, from his current contract.
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