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The Roosters are confident of re-signing Sonny Bill Williams. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Limited
SONNY Bill Williams has promised the Roosters that he will not make any announcement about his future until after the grand final on October 6.
But despite receiving a new three-year offer to defect back to Super Rugby champions the Waikato Chiefs in 2014, Williams is still expected to remain at Bondi Junction for another season at least.
The Daily Telegraph understands the Roosters are manouvering to replicate their current arrangement with the dual international, which was only announced last November and registered on the eve of round one.
Sources close to Williams have confirmed he is keen on resuming professional boxing during the off-season, with one or two more fights in the pipeline.
As they did earlier this year, when Williams scored a controversial victory over South African heavyweight Francois Botha, the Roosters have given the move their blessing.
It also appears the NRL will be more accommodating, with the wholesale salary cap review striving for means to keep marquee players such as Williams in rugby league.
Between November 2012 and March this year, salary cap auditor Ian Schubert subjected the eight-month contract of Williams to intense scrutiny. Schubert challenged the Roosters about the Botha fight, as well as the fact the player's agent — Khoder Nasser — was not NRL accredited.
Williams was even frogmarched into League Central to be grilled as part of the probe — an undignifying experience that hardly endeared him to the code he grew up playing.
While they allowed Williams to play, the NRL vowed to punish the Roosters for not adhering to their rules and directives.
As yet, no sanction has been announced. But a number of new forces are combining to produce better spirited negotiations this time around, despite the fact Nasser is yet to be accredited.
Most crucially, the NRL is patently aware of how much promotional value Williams has single-handedly delivered to rugby league this year.
While there are concerns about the competition becoming lopsided, the drawing power of players such as Williams is too compelling to ignore. One proposal being considered as part of the review is a centralised marquee player fund that can used to subsidise salaries on application to the NRL.
Marquee player payments will also rise to $600,000 per club next year. It's believed Williams stands to earn around $1 million-a-season, meaning more than half his contract could be quarantined from the basic salary cap itself.
Described by Roosters CEO Brian Canavan as "vanilla", the deal is also unlikely to include third party sponsorships because Williams and Nasser avoid corporate backing.
Preparing to make his comeback from a two-week suspension, the 28-year-old is sure to be quizzed about his intentions over the final two months of the season after the NZRU entered the fray last weekend.
Accepting a three-year deal would fly in the face of recent commercial dealings, with Williams backing himself on minimum term contracts since he quit the Bulldogs in 2008.
And at present he's supremely relaxed about the future, telling Roosters officials that he wants to concentrate on the present task of winning a premiership before entertaining all offers.
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