Andrew Johns backs Parramatta Eels to signal Lachlan Galvin on $1 million deal

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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 12 months.

Contemporary off a standout rookie marketing campaign at Harmony, {the teenager}’s supervisor has now come out and stated Galvin can be accessible 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.

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 associate Mitchell Moses

And that is the place Galvin may enter the equation in response to Johns, who believes the 19-year-old may very well be sporting blue and gold sooner fairly than later.

“They’re going to be shopping for in all probability probably the greatest younger five-eighths within the sport,” Johns stated on Broad World of Sports activities’ Immortal Behaviour.

“Final week it was talked about that from November 1 he can negotiate and his supervisor stated 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 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 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 can be $1 million – that is how loopy it’s,” he stated.

“There isn’t any high quality halves and now we have 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.