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The New Zealand Warriors have agreed to immediately release Kiwi star Shaun Johnson from the rest of his contract.
Johnson, the best scorer in the history of the Warriors club, asked for a release after learning that he was free to negotiate with rival clubs before the club offered him a contract extension for the 2020 season .
Cameron George, CEO of Warriors, said the club had initially expected that Johnson would stay at least for the club for the 2019 season, but that the decision to allow the half-back to leave the city was taken from day to day. next day.
"The club had informed its director in mid-September that we would not make an offer before November 1," George told reporters Tuesday morning.
"It's important as a club participating in the toughest competition in the world in the rugby league to take your time when you consider your spending according to what we call the salary cap, and we have to make sure we get it right. We have a chance to get this right every year when players are renewing themselves.
"We were not expecting deadlines at that time, so we realized that Shaun was going to be in the open market." We never warned that we would not consider it to be in the open. In the future, we said we would talk to Shaun when he came back from the UK and finished his job with the Kiwis.
"On this basis, we have seriously thought about what our future would be, not only in 1919, but also in 2020, 2121," 22.
"In 1919, this was never questioned because Shaun was hired at the club, which was never taken into consideration – it was all about the future.
"So when he came back from the UK, there was a lot of speculation about the media and social media, so we met with Shaun and his manager yesterday and Shaun asked his club to immediately provide him with release.
"At that time, he was met by myself, Stephen Kearney and Peter O. Sullivan, our hiring manager, and we followed up on this request from Shaun and his manager all day long. and overnight, agreed to give Shaun a release immediately, we are finalizing this paperwork as we speak.
"We are convinced that this is the right thing to do for the club.It is a club mentality first.We do not want to compromise the progress we have made in 2018 to the Approaching 2019. "
"We are very excited about our team and we are now in a position where I would say that we are potentially the best placed in terms of salary caps for NRL clubs."
Johnson, 28, played 162 games with the Warriors, scoring 63 tries and 915 points.
Young semi-goaltender Mason Lino has already left the Warriors for Newcastle this season, leaving the club without a clear replacement for Johnson.
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