Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract, : Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:23 am  

Surely they are offering him a deal... absolutely barmy if they don't. Match winner, plus we're letting Sutty go.. back line would be much much weaker without him next year.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract, : Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:34 am  

Wasn`t it rumoured we were looking at offering him a 1 year deal and he wanted 2 years?
Agree he is too good a player to let go if nothing else his ability to play anywhere across the backline from 1-5.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract, : Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:20 am  

Yeh, no brainer to give him a 2 year deal tbh.
He's been very good.
With Sutcliffe, Briscoe, Broadbent and possibly Walker leaving, we are short across the backs.
He can cover anywhere.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:56 am  

So no room in salary cap to offer Zak a deal. Says Rohan

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:41 am  

While there are bound to be contract upgrades for squad members / new signings (some maybe not announced) etc eating into the cap that we wont be privy to but I just cant fathom Leeds not signing up Zak.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:00 am  

with 5 or 6 leaving and much cheaper players coming in we must have been over the cap then.
and if there was no deal for zak he would have gone by now imo

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:15 pm  

I don’t think he’d have risked playing in the NZ game if he didn’t have a contract pretty much sorted. That would only be speculation on my part mind.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:38 pm  

It just does not add up . We have 4 / 5 players leaving and we have not recruited any stars on big money.
Unless we have some average players on massive money , which knowing Garys history , I doubt , we cannot be up to the salary cap.
The only other explanation can be that in view of the finances of the club over the last 2 years, the club are unable or unwilling to spend up to the cap limit - we are making the decision based on finances and not on the requirements of the team.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:23 am  

Boots wrote:

The only other explanation can be that in view of the finances of the club over the last 2 years, the club are unable or unwilling to spend up to the cap limit - we are making the decision based on finances and not on the requirements of the team.

No that's definitely not the case.
I'm sure there's some questionable cap management in the mix in this but there's also some signings still to announce by all accounts. And some upgrades to other players kick in next year.

Re: Zak Hardaker - New contract : Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:03 pm  

Let's hope we are not in the Wasps or Worcester finance area.