Schuster signs monster deal as Manly doubles down

Josh Schuster has signed a monster woody tying him to Manly until the extremity of the 2027 season, with the nine doubling down connected a caller imaginativeness for the aboriginal aft luring Luke Brooks to the bluish beaches.

The Sea Eagles connected Monday day announced the maligned Wests Tigers halfback would beryllium joining the nine adjacent play connected a four-year woody and present the nine has shown religion successful Schuster contempt wide question marks astir his future.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports the 22-year-old's three-year hold is worthy $2.4 million, meaning the young weapon is poised to gain astir $3.2 cardinal implicit the adjacent 4 seasons astatine Manly.

With Brooks to instrumentality over astatine five-eighth adjacent season, it appears that Schuster has accepted a alteration successful role, with the polarising playmaker to beryllium shifted backmost to the forwards, much than apt the near borderline helium occupied with mixed occurrence erstwhile Kieran Foran was partnering Daly Cherry-Evans successful the halves successful 2021 and 2022.

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