{"id":42628,"date":"2021-03-09T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42628"},"modified":"2021-03-09T05:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:22:50","slug":"pearce-agrees-to-cut-price-new-knights-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42628","title":{"rendered":"Pearce agrees to cut-price new Knights contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/mitchell-pearce\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Mitchell Pearce\">Mitchell Pearce<\/a> has reportedly agreed to a cut-price one-year contract extension with the Newcastle Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports reported the looming deal on Tuesday, with Pearce off-contract beyond this season. The deal, locking him in until the end of 2022, will reportedly be finalised within the next 48 hours and announced before Friday&#x27;s round one clash against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>On a base salary of about $900,000 this year, with potential bonuses that can push him well past $1 million, Pearce is looking at a pay-cut of about $300,000 next season, according to Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7feca7d1-499d-4f1f-b0c4-2d45c932ccb2\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7feca7d1-499d-4f1f-b0c4-2d45c932ccb2\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pearce was at the centre of a major pre-season controversy, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/mitchell-pearce-addresses-text-message-scandal-newcastle-knights-captaincy\/cb94369e-ed37-41c9-874a-9e9731e9ec77\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"losing the Knights captaincy after a &#x27;sexting&#x27; incident involving a female staffer\">losing the Knights captaincy after a &#x27;sexting&#x27; incident involving a female staffer<\/a>. His wedding was also cancelled amid the furore.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce arrived at the Knights in 2018, forced out of the Roosters after the club signed Cooper Cronk.<\/p>\n<p>He has played 297 NRL games by age 31. He was a 2013 premiership winner at the Roosters and has a Newcastle team that has the talent to improve on a one-and-done finals appearance last season, in which the Knights lost 46-20 against South Sydney in their opening match.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mitchell Pearce has reportedly agreed to a cut-price one-year contract extension with the Newcastle Knights. Fox Sports reported the looming deal on Tuesday, with Pearce <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42628\" title=\"Pearce agrees to cut-price new Knights contract\">[&#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\/42628"}],"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=42628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42630,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42628\/revisions\/42630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}