RUMOUR Foran reconsidering Parra deal

[Renegade]

I'm confused, the NRL has a week 13 rule and this deal has been known to us for quite a while so it's to late for him to back out of the contract now?

It's starting to get very annoying players signing contracts and then changing their mind all the time. If Parramatta lose Foran they will be the biggest basket case club in the game, even bigger than the Sharks and Titans.

If Parra change the contract, the original contract Foran signed will be void, thus Foran would not be contracted to anyone.

 

[Nashy]

Wouldn't it already be registered, meaning, too fucking bad?

 

[Socnorb]

Cut and dried legal issue if the signed and the contract lodged are different.

 

[Unbreakable]

According to Paul Kent, Foran hasn't even signed the contract that Parra tried to register with the NRL, he also said that Manly is preparing to offer him the same deal as DCE, life time contract.

 

[Super Freak]

And for a similar amount of money..

I hope it's true. Manly will be fucking screwed.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

And for a similar amount of money..

I hope it's true. Manly will be fucking screwed.

Didn't they learn anything from this year? The two halves are pretty meaningless without any go forward up front.

 

[Foordy]

THE unravelling of Kieran Foran’s contract to join the Parramatta Eels can be traced back to a meeting at the club’s O’Connor Street headquarters three weeks ago.Present were chairman Steve Sharp, recently departed chief executive Scott Seward, board member Tom Issa and head of football operations Daniel Anderson.

Anderson, the ex-NRL coach brought in to Parramatta to clean up the club’s salary cap position, raised the alarm about the get-out clauses where Foran could walk away and claim $1 million in damages against the Eels.

With the round 13 rule still in play, The Daily Telegraph has been told Anderson suggested the club wait until the deadline passed before it began work on Foran removing the clause.

At the same time, it was agreed the Eels would ask coach Brad Arthur to start the process of changing the agreed contract once any chance of the five-eighth doing a backflip to stay at Manly was eradicated.

Arthur did this a fortnight ago, arranging to have dinner with Foran, raising the clauses and being told Foran was unaware of them.
The dinner took place before the Eels travelled to Melbourne to play the Storm in their round 14 clash, which came a week after the round 13 clause had expired.

The meeting at Eels Leagues Club headquarters throws into question claims the board was unaware of the clauses until contacted by the NRL.

In a statement to Channel Nine last night, Foran said: “I don’t know how it has come to this.
“I entered into an agreement three months ago in good faith and have never wavered.
“I have shown the utmost respect to Parramatta and I’m not 100 per cent sure this has been shown to me.”

Asked when he became aware of the clauses, Eels chairman Steve Sharp about was reluctant to go into detail for fear of jeopardising the Foran contract.
“I can’t really discuss that at the moment,” the Parramatta powerbroker said. “I’m happy to talk in detail once it all gets resolved but at the moment I don’t want to say anything that might jeopardise the process.”
The Eels chairman, everyone at Parramatta and the club’s legion of blue and gold fans were hopeful Foran would agree to the changes in the clauses, sign the new contract and the Eels could submit it to the NRL ASAP.
As of last night, he hadn't.
And the longer the clock ticks, the more rival clubs rub their hands.
The Daily Telegraph has been told Foran spoke to Eels coach Brad Arthur yesterday afternoon and there were no guarantees.
Canterbury and the Sydney Roosters have been mooted as possible destinations for the Kiwi international, while Manly have began investigating how they could retain their star five-eighth.


The other issue clearly at play here is the power struggle between Arthur and Anderson. When Anderson attempted to get the clause removed last week, Foran’s camp asked for a get-out clause to be inserted stating if Arthur was sacked as coach, the five-eighth was a free agent.

Anderson refused.

The Eels board has since changed its position, with the club stating it is prepared to include the clause to get Foran’s deal over the line.
Another embarrassment for the Eels is the existence of two contracts, both of which were submitted to the NRL.
Only one of them was signed by Foran and both were for different amounts. One was $4.2 million over four years, submitted on April 28 with no clauses.

The signed version was for $4.8 million, including the clauses, submitted in early June.
The Eels claim they made a mistake due to the multiple contracts and inadvertently reduced the club’s offer to Foran by $600,000 last week.
Once they realised the existence of the other $4.8 million version, they were happy to honour it.

Which, once again, raises the question. If the Eels discussed getting rid of the clauses in the $4.8 million contract three weeks ago then, how was the club in the dark about its existence?

If the Foran deal falls over, it’s arguably the darkest day in Parramatta’s rich history.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...-three-weeks-ago/story-fniabng4-1227411688837

it really does seem like a cluster-**** from the Eels.

The Eels seem to have thought they could wait until after the round 13 deadline had passed, then change the terms of the agreement that Foran had signed and Foran would just have to accept it without recourse.

what the Eels don't seem to understand is that once a contract has been signed by the other party, it can't then be changed because they regret what they put in there.

 

[broncos4life]

How can they be this stupid. How?

 

[Sproj]

Did Parra register the contract though? Seems they possibly haven't in order to be so underhanded.

 

[Foordy]

Did Parra register the contract though? Seems they possibly haven't in order to be so underhanded.

There is a video from Kent (yeah, i know, lol) on that article that i posted, saying that the NRL sent the contract back to the Eels, refusing to register it for a number of reasons.

1. That get out with compensation clause
2. Apparently, as part of the $4.8 million contract value, they tried to include several third party agreements that they weren't permitted to under NRL salary cap rules.

sounds like it a combination of the Eels being underhanded and being incompetent.

 

[Kimlo]

According to Paul Kent, Foran hasn't even signed the contract that Parra tried to register with the NRL, he also said that Manly is preparing to offer him the same deal as DCE, life time contract.

Hopefully this is true.

 

[theshed]

Wow some people are bad at their jobs. It could almost be suggested that Sewerd may have agreed to the clause because it would give him some job security.

 

[mitch222]

So they presented Foran with two contracts. Sounds dodgy like the storm cap scandal

 

[Sproj]

Yeah but how do you penalize Parra for a dodgy salary cap? Its not like they are doing any good on the field.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Manly will need to offload a shit load of players if they are going to pay Foran what he is worth. How could Foran sign with Manly for less than DCE is getting?? This will be interesting to watch play out.

 

[Sproj]

Yep, any of their older players they can probably hold on to but any young gun who comes through, see you later buddy.

 

[1910]

So they presented Foran with two contracts. Sounds dodgy like the storm cap scandal

If you're doing the wrong thing you don't send the contracts to the NRL. They submitted both for registering with different amounts on. They got sent back saying how about you submit one and fix the errors.

 

[1910]

Manly will need to offload a shit load of players if they are going to pay Foran what he is worth. How could Foran sign with Manly for less than DCE is getting?? This will be interesting to watch play out.

They rid themselves of Watmough's huge amount of money they pay him this year in October.