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Andrew Johns believes younger Wests Tigers playmaker Lachlan Galvin will obtain presents of $1 million, ought to he hit the open market on the finish of this 12 months.
Contemporary off a standout rookie marketing campaign at Harmony, {the teenager}’s supervisor has now come out and mentioned Galvin would be available to rival clubs from November 1.
The feedback – maybe coincidentally, maybe not – have come on the similar time that the sport’s greatest 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 12 months. 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 in line with Johns, who believes the 19-year-old may very well be carrying blue and gold sooner relatively than later.
“They will be shopping for in all probability top-of-the-line younger five-eighths within the recreation,” 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 may very well be sizzling property on the finish of 2024. Getty
“I’ve received such a rap on him, he is an unbelievable participant. He needs the large 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 every little thing at him.”
Whereas his deal on the Tigers is fairly affordable for a participant with one season below 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 supply could be $1 million – that is how loopy it’s,” he mentioned.
“There is not any high quality halves and we have now half a dozen ageing playmakers – DCE, Cody, Hunt and Reynolds – and there is no actual, top-notch high quality playmakers.”
Galvin will tackle Parramatta in spherical two at CommBank Stadium.
