HOLIDAY PAY: JARRYD HAYNE’S 180,000 REASONS TO PUT OFF RELEASE REQUEST

Hayne has good reason to silence Eels talk ...

SUPERSTAR Jarryd Hayne has 180,000 reasons to wait until January to ask the Gold Coast Titans for a release to join the Parramatta Eels.

The Fijian World Cup fiveeighth is due to be paid his monthly salary of $90,000 on November 30 and December 30 – well before he is due to return to Titans training in the new year.

Hayne (pictured) would forfeit the $180,000 if he was to ask – and be granted – an immediate release from the club.

The $180,000 in World Cup “holiday pay’’ would allow Hayne to soften the financial pain of having to take a pay cut at Parramatta.

The Eels would pay him about $500,000, which would effectively lift his earnings to about $700,000 for the season.

It is believed the Hayne deal is all but done at Parramatta.

At this stage all coach Brad Arthur will say is: “If Jarryd wants to come and play on our terms and if he gets released, we’ll obviously be looking at it. We’ll see what happens.”

Obviously Hayne can’t say more because it would put in danger the first two monthly instalments of his $1 millionplus Titans contract.

Hayne has been careful on social media in his denials of wanting out from the club.

He tweeted: “I have NOT instructed my manger (sic) to SPEAK to teams in Sydney.”

Maybe not teams (plural) but certainly his old club Parramatta. As a contracted Titans player, it would have to be kept hush hush anyway.

Hayne’s signing at the Eels has also been delayed until the NRL finalises the new ownership of the Titans.

The NRL feels any decision on a likely release should be left to the new owners, who could even be confirmed this week.