Parramatta Eels front-rower Junior Paulo continues a contract standoff with the Parramatta Eels after losing the Perth Bears deal.Contract talks collapsed between Paulo and the Bears in August after his management asked for a two-year deal at $900,000 per season.
This led the Western Australian-based club to pursue Corey Horsburgh from the Canberra Raiders after he had a falling out with Ricky Stuart.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a deal has been offered to extend with the Parramatta Eels.
Parramatta have offered Junior Paulo $650,000 per season, which still doesn't meet his expectations.
Paulo missed most of the season after having minor knee surgery.
There had been whispers that Super League clubs believed Paulo was available for the 2027 season, according to The Daily Telegraph.
"Junior is super important for us in terms of experience in the middle third of the field; we are quite young there," Jason Ryles said at the end of the season about closing Paulo on a new deal.
If Paulo stays at Parramatta, he will join his co-captain at international level, Jarome Luai, who is heading to the Eels in a 12-month stopgap deal for 2027.
Another Samoan star, Jaydn Su'A, will also arrive at the club on a three-year deal from the St George Illawarra Dragons.
It is likely that at this stage, Paulo will remain at Parramatta; however, money is a major factor for the 32-year-old in his next year.
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Simple I explained it in the last paragraph.
Its wait and see if we can land a better option Simple really if not we have a decision to make.Nov 1 is our friend we weigh up what comes to market if we land better great if we don't we make a hard call and either offer Paulo some sought of contract or cut him loose.
You not listening or seeing the big picture JR spelt this shit out months ago the clubs been head hunting talent for months and here you are simple simoning on Paulo again.
Haha , so you'd do exactly what the clubs doing ? The club you're highly critical of for doing it wrong ?
you have no suggestions , no answers , just that we should be " waiting and seeing " for a better option, even though you've said what 10 times on this thread there's nobody , and we need Paulo .
Sack MON get Coryn on the job to " wait and see "
Farkin genius 😂 you have no answers bonehead , you just dove in to have your gibber as usual .
Highly critical 😂 so you like the way our recruitments gone do you.Do you actually think what we have in the recruitment space is acceptable do you congratulations good for you I expect better you don't cool.How would I do what the clubs doing I suggested hiring a experienced recruitment manager in posts earlier so how exactly is that what the clubs doing.Again you miss the obvious and that's one of the first questions you out to me 😂 Cmon sunshine chess not chequers.
I've just given you answers you wait and see because the landscape is always changing unlike yourself whose looking for something that isn't there yet.
Lol your just some idiot on a forum and what answers have you actually got nothing I can't help you only see 2's in front of your face.
Old project clueless hates when someone always has an answer or response to stupid hey it's not that hard if you actually have a look at all the factors in play not as mentioned the 2's in front of his nose.
Nobody's been more critical of recruitment and retention here than me over the past decade. And look where we are.
Prove me wrong.
Now you're just being hysterical. You actually make zero sense. Jibbering away like a drunk on a keyboard.
What we should not do is listen to a dude who thinks we stuffed up by not paying Dopey Dylan 1.4 million 😂😂😂 now he wants to pay Paulo 900k. Same bloke alway blabbering on about how he knows R&R are idiots , but then tells me he wants to do exactly what they're doing now as they are doing it right..... I think you've spun yourself into a corner trying to prove I'm the idiot and forgot the previous crap you've peddled ?
Go and sleep lasts nights Woodstocks off .
You can only see what's in front of your nose is the only hysteria going on here.
Recruitment and critical of it something we agree on then because clearly it's not good enough.
As for the DB 1.4 shite your the only dope mentioning that try find a post where I've ever said I'd want to pay that.To be real here that's just your stupidity writing that cheque.
Since your not a big picture guy and choose to see what you want to see I'll just continue to lower the discussion down to the spoon feeding because that's all your good for because you choose to see what you want to see on this topic.
Woodstocks is that the flavour is it do yourself and everyone else a favour just say no.
So you are always harping on about the club not doing more to keep Brown and how the club fucked up etc.
again , the man of knowledge just thinks Dylboobs wouldve stayed for a nice letter of appreciation and a firm handshake
You still simple as fark aren't you.
1.3 per was the money Newcastle had to pay to get DB out of here.The analogy you use with regards to DB staying is what Newcastle had to do to get him out 😂
I love replying to Simple because you can best believe we didn't have to pay that for DB to stay.He even said as much.
But hey the club did fark up and they still haven't found a replacement firstly and with the money they saved from DBs contract how have they improved the team exactly.I'll throw in Lomax's salary also.You say your critical about recruitment well why have you gone silent on this then.Me I think your full of shit but hey that's just me.
But hey shall I just keep spoon feeding it to you like an 18 month old..
You can't run a club like that Coryn. I like Paulo, the club offered him a decent contract. If he doesn't like it, let him walk. If we give in to him, that is called salary cap suicide. Don't forget, you are talking about a 33yr old front rower on one and a half legs.
You also can't run recruitment like we run it either.
If you have no option and your head coach is saying you need an experienced middle as an example in Paulos case where are you.
What do we do if Paulo wasn't a legit option what is the club waiting for it's really that simple.Find another option or keep Paulo the fact Paulo is still on the table is because recruitment aren't doing ther job.
Paulo must still have some value if there still offering a contract.
Paulo is a shadow of what he once was and is getting worse each year. He looks like he hates the collision these days. Sadly that is what he would display if kept around as a leader for our pack for others to follow. Sam T already seems to follow in his footsteps with a short run, almost flat footed when taking the ball up.
paulo also fails to chase kicks and barely moves up in defence most of the time leaving holes in the line. Not what you want from the leader of your pack.
Our defence was much improved when he was out injured.
The only role I see for him is as a ball playing lock in short stints but he is not worth anywhere near the money he wants.
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