Panthers CEO Brian Fletcher has answered with an emphatic “no” when requested if the membership will permit Jarome Luai to move to the Tigers a yr early amid hypothesis the playmaker is rising discontent along with his present membership.
Luai has been granted depart from Panthers preseason coaching this week within the wake of experiences that he has agreed to a five-year, $6million take care of the Tigers from the 2025 season.
Fox Sports’ Cody Kaye spoke to Fletcher on Tuesday morning, with the Panthers boss laughing off solutions that Luai can be wherever however Penrith in 2024.
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“Fletcher said ‘there’s absolutely no way we are letting Jarome Luai off his contract in 2024 to play for a rival club’ and further to that, he says Jarome wants to be at the Panthers for the final year of his contract,” Kaye instructed Fox Sports News.
“However, we all know rugby league is a funny business and it wouldn’t be the first time that clubs have denied the release of a player only for that player to be released.
“At this stage, as far as the Panthers are concerned, Luai isn’t going anywhere.”
The Tigers in the meantime, would love Luai to reach in Concord a season earlier as they try and cease a two-year wood spoon streak below new coach Benji Marshall.
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Kaye spoke to new Tigers CEO Shane Richardson, asking the adorned rugby league administrator if the membership is eager to have Luai from 2024.
“You have to imagine that given this massive offer, the Wests Tigers are moving heaven and earth to try and get him (Luai) for the start of Round 1 next year,” Kaye stated.
“I asked him (Richardson) point blank if you’d like to get Jarome for the start of the 2024 season and he answered ‘no comment’. Read into that what you will.. It’s not a denial, but it leaves the open question.
“The only way they can do that is if the Panthers decide to let him leave a year early.”
Luai hasn’t been seen at Panthers preseason coaching since explaining teammates of his plan to go away the membership on the finish of 2024 to signal with the Tigers.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the Panthers had reluctantly granted Luai depart.
However in a tweet, SMH journalist Michael Chammas stated Luai had not answered the membership and as an alternative obtained a another person to inform them he “wasn’t coming to work because he was angry with them”.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
