Monster seven-year upgrade to keep Olakau’atu with Sea Eagles until 2030

The Manly Sea Eagles are moving to lock up one of their most dangerous forwards, with the club tabling a humungous upgrade package for Haumole Olakau’atu that would see him stay on the Northern Beaches until at least the end of 2030.

Olakau’atu is already signed with Manly to 2025, but the Sea Eagles want to make sure he won’t play in anything but maroon and white in the NRL

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Work has been underway on the Northern Beaches for some time now, with several preliminary deals offered to Olakau’atu’s management before this official extension bid. The Sporting Base understands the deal—which would lock the 24-year-old up until his early 30s—is worth around $800,000 a season. He is expected to take up the extension.

The upgrade would make him one of the highest-paid second rowers in the competition.

While Manly is already paying quite a bit for stars like Daly Cherry-Evans and Tom and Jake Trbojevic, this masthead understands there was a need for urgency (and a bump in the pay department) because several NRL rivals were already quietly sounding out Olakau’atu’s future. This included at least the Wests Tigers and St George Illawarra Dragons.

Olakau’atu is already headed in the right direction to earn $800,000 a season through the 2020s, especially considering he was named among the best in the comp by his peers just this week.

Since joining Manly he has scored 29 tries in 73 games and twice represented Tonga in 2022. He could well have played State of Origin last season too but elected to play for Tonga instead. Since then, the damaging forward has said, “If the chance comes around again I will 100 per cent take it and grab it with both hands.”

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This deal is the third longest in the comp behind Tino Fa’asuamaleaui at the Gold Coast Titans and Dylan Brown at the Parramatta Eels, who are signed to 2033 and 2031 respectively.