Evening news tonight. Martin Offiah telling Salford bosses what it would take to keep the little genius. Is he worth it? My heart says yes my head says no.

what would it take? news on web not showing story.
and can other clubs take him without offloading for the salary cap?

Pay him - if he goes, who do we replace him with - some 2nd rate garbage like Thorman probably. Before we know it, we're letting Adamson and Turner move on as well. We need to tie up our young players on longer deals. Without relegation Super League isn't about simply staying up anymore. We need to build a team and that involves having a core group of young players.

Get him signed until the season that the next decision on franchises is made. If the new stadium is almost finished/finished (we live in hope...) then we can look to possibly keep him for longer, if we've made no progression then wave goodbye.

The worrying thing about the agent is that he is looking for personal publicity as well as the best deal for his client. Remember, there will be no loyalty to Salford from either Myler or his agent - but both love the limelight, so you can be sure the story will run and run.

Offiah will be pushing for a six-figure salary, surely?

No doubt. If Offiah's appearances on Sky Sports News are anything to go by I could imagine any potential contract talks stalling with Offiah stuttering his way through them whilst forgetting Myler's name and the salary that they are asking for....

Salford City Reds need to offer Richard Myler a five-year contract.

The 19 year old Myler is now an International player and should be rewarded.

Also Salford need to sign Luke Adamson, Jordan Turner and Stefan Ratchford on long term deals.

These four young players are a big part of our future and we need to keep them on board..

If we used the money from a potential sale of Myler to sign up Adamson/Turner/Ratchford on long term deals you wouldn't see me complaining.

heard were after him at Hull fc and i wouldn't mind ratchford he never seems to get much acclaim but whenever iv'e watched you guys he's the i think has the most potential

Ratchford is contracted until the end of the 2011 season and I know that Myler is contracted until 2010.

Didn't Adamson sign a new contract during pre-season?

I don't know when Turner's contract expires though. Anyone?

Either way, like you say, we have a nucleus of young players that we can hopefully build around.

Myler heading to Wire it's a done deal

LOL Wire girl - Wires only sign pensioners like Carney. I heard they were after Robbie Paul.

was talking with shaun mcrae on sunday he said he thought jordan had been got at by a big club was really worried he wont sign a new contract luke adamsons contract is up but he thought luke will sign an extension to that contract and we cant go out and start signing players for next year as we are still waiting to hear how much money we are getting for the salary cap

Isnt there anything Forever Reds can help with in keeping these players perhaps a bonus of some sort?

Then what do you sign another decent scrum half with????

Maybe SM can help with some punctuation LOL.

Have a gut feeling that Turner will end up at Leeds as he strikes me very much as there type of player.

Can anyone tell me do RL agents need to be registered and have rules to abide by as it smacks of openly touting Myler around for Offiah to be leaking these kinds of statements to the press.

I would think that Ratchford would make a decent scrum half and Turners position of choice is stand off so you maybe have the answer stareing you right in the face.

If ALL our season ticket holders JOINED Forever Reds, we could possibly look at doing something like that, what we have financially is probably peanuts, but if all the fans want to go down the route you suggest R.J. i'm sure we could look at doing the bonus scheme to keep our young players.

it would still count on the cap though

Yes, but there is now a level salary cap in SL. The problem Salford have is that we can't afford to spend up to it. If we had more money we have space under the cap to spend a few hundred thousand pounds more on players.

why the feck do people always go on about fecking punctuation you can read the post ffs

If we are to loose Turner and Myler I will become seriously dissolutioned with the whole idea of the franchice and the clubs ambition to be a big club.

offiahs job is 2 get his player the most money.the problem we have is offiah knows a lot of people in the press and he his exploiting this 2 the max

for which the powers that be at the rl should be doing something about it. The idea of the franchise is the bring youngsters through and give them a chance and also to even out the playing field as much as they can to make for an exiting season.But while Idiots like offiah are doing what he is doing it will always be the big teams at the top and teams like us at the bottom