St George Illawarra have landed a huge recruitment scalp by securing Australian star Keaon Koloamatangi to a long term near $5 million deal.

It is understood that Koloamatangi has told the Dragons he will join the club from 2027 on a five year deal. The contract is now in the cooling off period.

It is a clear circuit breaker for the Dragons who were in the market for a marquee player.

Koloamatangi’s current club South Sydney wanted to secure him as did Parramatta.

The Dragons though look set to land the prized recruit after gazumping the Eels and Rabbitohs with a monster five year deal

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      • Why they finished the season strongly 😂 I do think Ryles has a lot of say in our recruitment to. Same as Galvin he's not going to increase his offer. If the player wants more money to join then Ryles isn't going to budge 

      • Obviously he is not an attractive enough to attract other players along with Ryles

      • Cause Ryles didn't want that money on a winger and also wanted players who were all in. 

        • Ryles isn't desperate yet, wait until we fail again and he's heading into year 3. He might start sweating a bit more then and loosen the purse strings.

    • R&R prob extend Matto

    • Lomax will never come back to Parramatta 

      • Yeah I know he would take a massive pay cut to play for 400,000 dollars for a different competion than rather come back to the NRL to play for the Eels. And honestly looking back still this Pezet deal is so shit, just sign him long term or don't sign him. We are so embarrassing 

        • A lot praise Ryles and rightfully so. I do a lot too. But Ryles deserves some blame for agreeing to the Pezet deal too. 

      • I wonder why. ^

        • I'm not sure , maybe it was their a centre not a winger 🤷🏼‍♂️

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