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Andrew Johns believes younger Wests Tigers playmaker Lachlan Galvin will obtain gives of $1 million, ought to he hit the open market on the finish of this yr.
Contemporary off a standout rookie marketing campaign at Harmony, {the teenager}’s supervisor has now come out and mentioned Galvin could be out there to rival golf equipment from November 1.
The feedback – maybe coincidentally, maybe not – have come on the identical time that the sport’s largest contract was signed, with Dylan Brown heading to the Knights.
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Brown will stand to earn as much as $1.4 million per season as soon as he joins Newcastle as the kind of numbers being thrown round for halves continues to develop.
Dylan Brown will head to the Knights subsequent yr. Getty
His departure from Parramatta will give the membership loads of cash to play with, in addition to the necessity to signal a five-eighth to companion Mitchell Moses
And that is the place Galvin may enter the equation based on Johns, who believes the 19-year-old could possibly be carrying blue and gold sooner fairly than later.
“They’re going to be shopping for in all probability the most effective younger five-eighths within the sport,” Johns mentioned on Vast World of Sports activities’ Immortal Behaviour.
“Final week it was talked about that from November 1 he can negotiate and his supervisor mentioned to get the cheque books out.
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Lachlan Galvin could possibly be sizzling property on the finish of 2024. Getty
“I’ve acquired such a rap on him, he is an unimaginable participant. He desires the massive moments, however he is nonetheless uncooked as a sushi bar and he is solely gonna get higher.
“He is a 15-year playmaker and I would be shocked if they do not throw all the pieces at him.”
Whereas his deal on the Tigers is fairly cheap for a participant with one season beneath their belt, Johns believes the Eels would blow Galvin’s present membership out of the water.
“We’re speaking hypothetical, but when Lachie Galvin was to go to the Eels, the primary provide could be $1 million – that is how loopy it’s,” he mentioned.
“There is no high quality halves and we have now half a dozen ageing playmakers – DCE, Cody, Hunt and Reynolds – and there isn’t any actual, top-notch high quality playmakers.”
Galvin will tackle Parramatta in spherical two at CommBank Stadium.
