When
Eels skipper
Keiran Foran reflects on the most difficult period of his life; Parramatta’s salary cap penalty won’t feature most prominently in his mind.
The most underplayed element of Foran’s breakdown a week ago was the leaked story about him chasing
Manly for $140,000 in unpaid third party agreements.
Foran had desperately guarded the issue for months, privately convincing reporters privy to the information to stay quiet.
But that changed when he hired a lawyer to pursue the money – and told certain Eels officials.
According to Foran’s camp, the story appeared simultaneously in both of Sydney’s Sunday papers a few days later after the halfback confided in his clubmates.
Foran was gutted.
Those close to him feel there was an obvious motivation to leak the story – to deflect attention from Parramatta’s ongoing woes and put Manly under the gun. To some extent it has worked.
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The NRL Integrity Unit now has no option but investigate Foran’s dealings with his previous club. That put enormous strain on Foran, who was already struggling over his well-documented relationship split.
He’s now recovering at an Interstate clinic that specializes on those suffering from depression and anxiety.
Unlike good mate
Mitchell Pearce in Thailand, he’s maintained contact with a range of people on the outside over the past week.
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What’s been largely forgotten about Foran’s revised four-year deal with Parramatta is that he’s a free agent at the end of next season, because he has an option to stay with the club in 2018 and 2019.
The events of the past week could hardly have worked in Parramatta’s favour in that department.
http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/sp...reports-kieran-foran-gutted-after-manly-leak/