Tigers great urges $1m star to avoid the club

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Tigers large Benny Elias believes a determination backmost to Leichhardt would beryllium an intolerable merchantability to his nephew, weapon Eels halfback Mitchell Moses.

Moses played his inferior footy successful the Parramatta system, but his uncle Elias was connected the Tigers committee erstwhile helium primitively signed with the Concord nine successful 2011 - 3 years earlier his NRL debut successful 2014.

Moses spent 3 seasons playing for the Tigers earlier helium signed with the Eels for the 2018 season. He was past granted an aboriginal merchandise midway done 2017.

Now the 28-year-old's playing aboriginal is again nether the microscope, off-contract and baulking astatine a million-dollar connection from the Eels.

"I should beryllium screaming from the extortion for the Tigers, but I erstwhile upon a clip got him implicit to the Tigers, and they fto him go," Elias told Wide World of Sports.

"How bash you merchantability that backmost to him? I've been there, done that. Move on.

"It wasn't a beauteous exit, you know, helium near with Aaron Woods and James Tedesco - each 3 of them near unneurotic ... and it's hard to spell back.

"Fool maine once, I tin bull that, but fool maine twice."

The Eels connected Monday greeting announced they had resigned No.6 Dylan Brown until the extremity of 2025, with subordinate options that could spot him successful bluish and golden until 2031.

The woody could extremity up being 1 of the longest successful the club's history.

Eels main enforcement Jim Sarantinos said determination was nary deadline connected the club's connection to Moses, oregon information of Brown's caller woody tipping his halves spouse retired of the club.

"Keeping Dylan doesn't person thing to bash with the connection we person for Mitch, not from our perspective," Sarantinos told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"Mitch and Dylan person some been priorities for america and that remains the case. Our tendency is for Mitch to stay, we've made that precise wide to him and his manager and hopefully helium does stay."

Moses has besides fielded involvement from the Bulldogs. Elias said portion a halves operation of Moses and Matt Burton would beryllium formidable astatine Canterbury, re-signing with the Eels was his champion option.

He said Brown's re-signing is simply a monolithic boost to Parramatta, which mislaid this year's expansive last to Penrith.

"I powerfully judge that whether it beryllium successful the moving situation oregon the sporting situation ... if you're happy, you enactment there. And it's casual to enactment determination if you're happy," Elias said.

"He's been precise happy. They've been precise bully to him, and he's been precise bully to them. It's been a precise bully two-way relationship."

"(Moses with Brown) they've got a large combination. They cognize each other's personalities, they cognize each other's play.

"His No.6 is going to beryllium determination for a agelong clip - he's signed a semipermanent declaration ... he's enactment his shoes nether the bed.

"We haven't seen the champion of (Moses) yet."

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