Rival's audacious play for $1.25m star revealed

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The Raiders have escalated their propulsion to lure David Fifita to the nation's superior with manager Ricky Stuart gathering the absorption of the million-dollar guardant past week, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Fifita, who's reportedly making $1.25 cardinal astatine the Titans, has been allowed to negociate with rival clubs since November 1 due to the fact that his declaration expires astatine the extremity of 2023.

While Canberra is yet to array an authoritative connection to Fifita, the nine is intent on gathering its guardant battalion astir the Queensland State of Origin enigma from 2024.

The Raiders are not lone chasing Fifita but his partner, Shaylee Bent, for their NRLW side.

Fifita near the Broncos pursuing the 2020 play to instrumentality up a colossal three-year declaration with the Titans.

Gold Coast wants to support the 22-year-old but won't hold to a woody anyplace adjacent his $1.25-a-year contract, with the Titans unhappy astatine the instrumentality connected investment.

Fifita failed to gain Maroons enactment this twelvemonth and scored lone 7 tries successful the NRL, aft chalking up 17 successful 2021.

Speaking connected Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles with Gus podcast successful September, Phil Gould criticised the Titans implicit the mouthwatering magnitude of currency they threw astatine Fifita.

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"If you spell backmost successful clip to erstwhile they signed him, I said it was an irresponsible signing," Gould said.

"$1.25 cardinal for a 20-year-old back-rower is reckless spending.

"It really caused problems with the full subordinate marketplace and the values successful the market.

"When you get an outlier acquisition similar that wherever idiosyncratic goes and pays a ridiculous magnitude of wealth for a young back-rower, past the different back-rowers, forwards, halves, five-eighths and fullbacks successful the contention say, 'Well if he's worthy that, what americium I worth?'.

"It created a full mendacious economy.

"It's not his responsibility he's connected that money, but it was harmful to the game."

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