{"id":4979,"date":"2020-12-03T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2020-12-04T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:00:29","slug":"widdops-1-2-million-salary-sacrifice-in-nrl-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4979","title":{"rendered":"Widdop&#039;s $1.2 million salary sacrifice in NRL return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL star Gareth Widdop could become the NRL&#x27;s biggest bargain buy after being forced to slash his asking price by a whopping two thirds in order to secure a club for the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph reports, the former Dragons star is now on the NRL open market for a cut-price $300,000 a season.<\/p>\n<p>That&#x27;s a huge $600,000 downgrade from the approximately $900,000 a season deal he&#x27;s on with Warrington in the English Super League for the next two season.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/mole-gareth-widdop-comeback\/eba28699-242b-409d-8187-a4f41ab77f3b\" title=\"Widdop had hoped to earn around $550,000 to $600,000 a season in the NRL as first reported by WWOS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Widdop had hoped to earn around $550,000 to $600,000 a season in the NRL as first reported by WWOS<\/a>, but with interest at a minimal due to salary cap pressure at this time of the year, the English star has been forced to re-package himself.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"28e25b76-c744-426e-b10b-481d4481bfb3\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/28e25b76-c744-426e-b10b-481d4481bfb3\" alt=\"Gareth Widdop\" data-width=\"3500\" data-height=\"1968\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He has been shopped to the Sharks, Cowboys, Dragons and Roosters but all have knocked him back due to cap constraints, according to News Corp.<\/p>\n<p>There&#x27;s a hope that his new asking price might spark renewed interest to sign a veteran of the game with years of experience.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the former England and Great Britain international has returned to Sydney and is in hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Widdop&#x27;s wife, Carley, and his family, shifted back to Australia from England eight months ago and he now wants to return to be close to his three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former NRL star Gareth Widdop could become the NRL&#x27;s biggest bargain buy after being forced to slash his asking price by a whopping two thirds <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4979\" title=\"Widdop&#039;s $1.2 million salary sacrifice in NRL return\">[&#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\/4979"}],"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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}