The South Sydney Rabbitohs have reportedly received their man after agreeing a three-year deal to convey Wayne Bennett again to Redfern.
The Sydney Morning Herald first reported the information, with Bennett’s contract value $3 million.
Though Bennett has not formally signed on, the report claims Rabbitohs powerbrokers will meet with the 74-year-old throughout Magic Spherical to seal the deal.
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Bennett will return to the membership in 2025, 4 years after he first left to take up the position because the Dolphins’ inaugural head coach.
The deal reportedly contains efficiency bonuses aligned with South Sydney’s outcomes on the sector.
Nonetheless, Souths officers are reluctant to have fun Bennett’s homecoming given his historical past of eleventh hour modifications of thoughts, most notably when he left the Roosters hanging to change to the Dragons in 2008.
Bennett is reportedly additionally eager on the Eels head teaching position if it turns into obtainable, however Parramatta have thus far backed Brad Arthur to show issues round amid an damage disaster.
Souths CEO Blake Solly led the negotiations and was one in every of a number of South Sydney officers to satisfy with Bennett earlier this week.
Souths’ half proprietor Russell Crowe was not on the assembly, however has in talks with Bennett all through the courting course of.
Souths presently sit in final place on the NRL ladder two weeks after sacking former coach Jason Demetriou, who labored with Bennett as an assistant throughout his earlier three-year tenure with the membership from 2019 to 2021.
Bennett took Souths to 2 preliminary finals and a Grand Remaining, which Souths misplaced to the Panthers in his final recreation in cost on the membership.
The Rabbitohs are anticipated to formally announce the deal after their assembly with Bennett throughout Magic Spherical.
Initially printed as Wayne Bennett, South Sydney agree on $3 million transfer
