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[QUOTE="Super Freak, post: 2693216, member: 8536"] The Eels are facing more damaging headlines in the wake of Chris Sandow’s messy exit, with allegations that some players were receiving huge sums of money outside the salary cap. Eddie Obeid Jnr, who is the son of disgraced former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid, is alleged to have played a key role in the secret payments, organising for Sandow’s estimated $550,000 salary to be topped up by as much as $200,000 a year. Obeid Jnr has admitted to assisting the pair, and also offering real estate advice to Will Hopoate, according to Fairfax media, which claims Will Hopoate was also paid an extra $50,000 to $100,000 a year in deals not registered with the NRL and that Darcy Lussick was provided a discounted apartment. The claims come a day after the acrimonious relationship between Eels and Sandow came to an abrupt end, with the club releasing a statement confirming the club and the player were done. "Parramatta Eels have agreed to release Chris Sandow effective immediately, pending lodgment with the NRL," read the statement. The announcement frees up Sandow to join UK Super League club Warrington, who have reportedly offered him a one-year $450,000 deal. Sandow's exit from Parramatta was expected after the relationship between the player and the club deteriorated dramatically in recent weeks. Sandow and the club were understood to be at odds over third party payments to the halfback, with club legend Peter Sterling also claiming Sandow should never play for Parramatta again after an insipid display against Canterbury last Friday night. Controversial former Eels chairman Roy Spagnolo, who controlled the club from 2009 to 2013, is also embroiled in the latest claims. Mr Spagnolo, who was recently found to be "not a fit and proper person" to run a registered club, is alleged to have directed a number of third-party player payments, including money owed to Jarryd Hayne, into front companies he had set up for his own property development deals. The Sydney Morning Herald says one unregistered payment to Hayne went through even after the star had left the Eels to play American football with the San Francisco 49ers. Fairfax Media does not suggest any of the players knowingly breached the salary cap. [URL="http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=9011235"]Eels mired in 'secret payments' scandal[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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