Tom has beforehand proven his willingness to place the membership above his personal wants. This masthead reported final 12 months that the NRL rejected a request from the Manly famous person to take a $750,000 pay reduce within the wage cap over the following two years as a gesture of fine religion.
The Sea Eagles fullback, who has been suffering from accidents over the previous 5 years, utilized to scale back his $1.15 million wage by virtually 1 / 4 after he was sidelined for 2 months following a hamstring harm final 12 months.
Jake (left) and Tom Trbojevic (proper) and Daly Cherry-Evans have been the faces of the Sea Eagles for the very best a part of a decade.Credit score: Rhett Wyman
When Trbojevic is match, he’s nonetheless thought to be top-of-the-line gamers within the competitors and would demand in extra of $1 million a season on the open market.
Nevertheless, his harm historical past will add to the complexity of negotiations as Manly weigh up what constitutes a good and cheap supply to maintain Trbojevic on the membership.
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The Sea Eagles have additionally indicated they’d be able to supply Jake a one-year extension. Each Tom and Jake are on back-ended offers. Jake is prone to should take a pay reduce of near 50 per cent to stay on the membership.
The Sea Eagles have indicated they’ll supply him round $500,000-$550,000 for a one-year extension. Jake has beforehand indicated he, too, would by no means play in opposition to Manly.
“It simply wouldn’t occur,” Jake Trbojevic stated concerning the prospect of taking part in in opposition to the Sea Eagles within the aftermath of Cherry-Evans’ determination to depart Manly.
“I couldn’t do it, personally. Folks do this, however no, I undoubtedly couldn’t think about it. You by no means say by no means. We by no means thought Glenn Stewart would go away the membership, [even though] he bought pressured out. We by no means thought Cherry-Evans would go away the membership.
“Proper now, my reply could be no. I like this membership; it means the world to me. I’ve been right here since I used to be 14 in junior growth.”
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