Manly is reportedly set to signal Wests Tigers half Luke Brooks from 2024 on a long-term contract.
News Corp experiences Brooks will earn round $2m over a possible three-year deal on the Sea Eagles, a hefty pay reduce from this season’s $1.15m Tigers paycheck. Channel 9’s Danny Weidler reported the deal may as a substitute be 4 years.
28-year-old Brooks is off contract on the finish of this season, his eleventh on the joint-venture aspect, and not too long ago snubbed a suggestion to stay at his boyhood membership past this yr.
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Brooks had been linked to NRL rivals the Cowboys, Bulldogs, and Dragons, and likewise attracted curiosity from the Super League.
But he’ll now hyperlink up with Manly’s celebrity half Daly Cherry-Evans in a transfer that places Josh Schuster’s future at Brookvale doubtful.
Schuster this yr switched to five-eighth to switch Kieran Foran after the veteran’s transfer to the Titans, and regardless of some struggles the 22-year-old has reportedly been supplied a three-year contract extension in current weeks.
Manly had reportedly supplied Schuster to the Tigers in current weeks, however Fairfax reported over the weekend that the Concord membership dominated out a transfer for the rising five-eighth.
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The departure of Brooks leaves the Wests Tigers trying to find a long-term halves pairing, with the enjoying way forward for Adam Douehi nonetheless unsure following a critical knee damage.
24-year-old Brandon Wakeham is off-contract at season’s finish, whereas News Corp not too long ago reported that the Tigers reached out to Broncos halfback Jock Madden over a possible return to the Tigers.
23-year-old Madden, who debuted for the Tigers in 2021 earlier than transferring to Brisbane this season, is below contract with the Broncos via 2025.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au