{"id":30083,"date":"2021-02-03T04:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30083"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:59:15","slug":"dragons-face-whopping-fee-to-buy-folau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30083","title":{"rendered":"Dragons face whopping fee to buy Folau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/israel-folau-nrl-return-paul-gallen-drew-mitchell-reaction-st-george-illawarra\/12e0dea9-0c96-4f8c-a142-eb875e6afec1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Israel Folau&#x27;s return to the NRL\">Israel Folau&#x27;s return to the NRL<\/a> has moved a significant step closer with his French club Catalans declaring they are prepared to release the controversial star &#8211; for a price.<\/p>\n<p>Folau is still contracted to Catalans for next season and would not be allowed to join St George Illawarra without a release.<\/p>\n<p>But Catalans boss Bernard Guasch has declared his club will release Folau if the Dragons gave his club a tidy sum for their troubles.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are not going to break the contract of Israel Folau without compensation,&quot; Guasch said in a clear message to the Dragons.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"61f93717-6d62-405d-8489-35543ab7268e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/61f93717-6d62-405d-8489-35543ab7268e\" alt=\"Israel Folau \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is believed the Catalans club will allow Folau to return to Sydney for around $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Dragons have to decide whether it is worth paying that amount &#8211; on top of Folau&#x27;s hefty wage demands.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another hurdle &#8211; the NRL is yet to give the Dragons the green light in the wake of Folau&#x27;s homophobic rants that ended his association with Rugby Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I ran a poll on Twitter over the past 24 hours and over 5000 fans voted &#8211; with around 65 per cent saying they did not want to see Folau back in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1356480908178587652\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1356480908178587652<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>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> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Israel Folau&#x27;s return to the NRL has moved a significant step closer with his French club Catalans declaring they are prepared to release the controversial <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30083\" title=\"Dragons face whopping fee to buy Folau\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/30083"}],"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=30083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30085,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083\/revisions\/30085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}