Mahoney has already been spotted meeting with Bulldogs officials<\/a> this week and the race to his signature heats up.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> England crumbles as New Zealand reaches maiden T20 World Cup final<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n All three players are managed by the same agent, Sam Ayoub.<\/p>\n Parramatta has tabled offers to all three players and the club had reportedly told Ayoub to give them a definitive answer on each deal before the end of this week.<\/p>\n Now, the Sydney Morning Herald reports the Eels have sensationally backed down on that ultimatum.<\/p>\n "Parramatta have tonight avoided a stand-off with the players in what is becoming a rather messy contract saga," journalist Michael Chammas told Nine News.<\/p>\n "The club has contacted Nine News to inform us they have backflipped on that (deadline) decision, and the deadline has been removed to avoid a stand-off with the players."<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Formula 1 race director defends decision not to punish Ricciardo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Supercars legend set to abandon Bathurst 1000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The news comes the same day Parramatta lost gun backrower Marata Niukore to the Warriors.<\/p>\n The Eels face a threat from several rivals to retain their star trio, including incoming club the Dolphins, which needs to fill a roster before entering the competition in 2023.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parramatta has reportedly backflipped on a bombshell contract deadline placed on three of the club's best players. Eels captain Clint Gutherson, hooker Reed Mahoney, and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158457,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158455\/revisions\/158457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n