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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The tigers have zero leverage unless they are willing to get cleaned out in the courts over the bullying, they have absolutely no chance of winning that case.
id like to see how that plays out, particulary when compared with some other players who have gone down that path - didnt molo for example not train with the club, completely dissappeared from Saints set up, didnt play Reggies.
Galvin lined up last sunday, loss to Storm, win over dragons & Sharks.
Exactly right the Tigers want rid of this mess there just trying to get what they can as they don't want a court case.As much as I dislike Issac Moses he's played his hand perfectly and has leverage over just about every club he has a player/s at bar the Dogs.His shit won't fly around Gus.
As much as I want Galvin at the eels I also don't want moses to have so much control over the eels, he already has most of our juniors in his grasp.
I would not be surprised if Gus has some sweeteners for Isaac to get the deal over the line. The dogs are definitely pushing the boundaries to be able to sign so many off contract big name players over the last few years and somehow stay under the cap.
Yep what is this clown smoking..
It's not the tigers choice who pays more they've made a value it's now not a club bidding war with the tigers it's up to Galvin.
Can we bag the centrebet aswell as they had the eels at $1.03 about 2 weeks ago 😂 they fell for Gould's rhetoric also now he's in the Eels odds have gone to about $10s to land Galvin 😂
As soon as Gus said he wasn't interested I knew he was going there.
Looks like everyone's contacts including mine have been telling porkies or things have changed drastically
What was true a few weeks ago isn't necessarily true now, situations change.
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