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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Sorry Coryn, you're all over the shop. No way we match DB'S contract, not even the Tigers would match it. As for Barnett, we didn't chase him, we enquired. He received an offer from the Broncos, around the $800k mark, we enquired to his manager, he told us if you want him he will cost you at least $950k for him to knock back the Broncos, we said no. That's not what you call, as you call it, chasing hard. As for Lomax, you can't blame recruitment for that, he was a money hungry greedy prick, and it backfired on him.
Where have I said we match it ?
All I've said is the Newcastle offer was the deal it took to get DB out Parra wouldn't have to have had to pay that for him to stay.The fact we left the door open for Newcastle to come in and take him was on us no one else we gave the options and Newcastle took there shot.
Enquired means we were interested and we missed on Kolomatangi and the Leniu noise has quitend and now we are in this stand off with Paulo...
Lomax the club did the right thing here but how exactly like Browns money did we use it to improve the team exactly.
Thats the issue with letting these guys go recruitment have to have answers to improve the team that's there jobs how exactly have they done this.
All over the place Ill put it simply we have under qualified people in the area and I haven't even talked about the back 5 which is a shitshow also.
Well considering he will miss most of preseason due to the World Cup and annual leave, it's only fair to start paying him from mid January. 700k tops.
Paulo is a deadset thief. $900,000 for 2 years - he has to be kidding.He should be paying Parra for fraud damages..
Paulo needs Spencer & Spencer will be a waste without Paulo. Don't think for one minute we would be better off without this wreaking ball. An agreement needs to be reached, it's no use trying to build the squad, then allow a senior player walk out. Getting rid of the old boys RCG & co but it set us back, but we all agreed it had to happen. Losing Brown & Lomax was not expected & those two would have made a huge difference with them in the side. Now your happy to lose Paulo to save $300 000, for what? It's no like we can replace his experience, sure we could pick up another prop but not his experience & what he does for the club & team. Some people here are truly sponge heads, no idea what a player like him will set us back. Then next year you'll be blaming recruitment and retention so stop it. He needed & need to get this deal done. Sure go for a lower price but we need to make it happen.
Spencer doen't need Paulo, Paulo needs Spencer to do the hard yards because he is lazy and just goes through the motions taking the easy way out to get his doe for f**k all return never been any differant.went to raiders for more cash had to earn it jumped ship back to us for an easier ride, plays lasy until contrct up, plays like a champion gets his extention goes back to his usual lazy self. defensive liability we dont need him get rid of him.
Paulo was already gone and we were quite happy for him to do so. I was good with him at 600kish , I was even good with offering him a mutual second year . But he's truly shown his colours now as a greedy prick who couldn't give two fucks about the club. I actualy think we'd be a better side without his poor influence on young players.
How can you sell him as a club leader to young blokes? Do you what to breed more like him ? Nah .
Bit like when Hayne fucked off to NFL . We were a better side for his abcence .
Shown his colours, I thought some of his efforts this year were excellent, he played injured and was inspirational at different times.....Lazy I don't think you know the meaning of the word? he is a professional football playing a role as a front rower, having the shit belted out of him and you call him lazy.....Wiz is jealous of anyone that earns more than him and always finds a way to "disent".
Finally, no one knows the true values of these negotiations, Parra telegraphs nothing in these situations, what if his management started at 900k, would you not do your job the best way you can....what he ends up getting will again be not known, as the coaches on here don't have a clue, between Wiz and his minions they could not coach a choko vine up a wire fence.
Why insult a player like Paulo who is obviously passionate about his team, he never left us for money btw when he went to Canberra, a few seem to see that as an act of disloyalty, he was sold to put us back inside the cap after the regulators finished their job.
If Perth were going to pay him stupid money we agreed and thought it a fair reward, now we are left with these useless arguments and discussion.....you know its interesting you experts on here think our board know's nothing about football....I would go as far as saying they know a lot more than the "dills" on here.
Do you really think they sit on a board in a voluntary capacity to show everyone how clever they are, qualifications at about every level would leave the "haters" for dead.
PS I am sure that any of the board members would step aside if someone shows up better qualified. Saratinos has effectively done this at his self imposed end of tether. Realising now they need a CEO with qualifications other than financial management expertise.
Yeah I'd move on. 650000k year on year is more than fair for his age and he's had a couple of injuries.
650k is the same amount Trey Mooney is on. Would've been a handy signing but I heard we baulked on his asking price
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