The former NRL star, Mat Rogers, warned Matty Johns about the possibility of training Newcastle after the gentlemen's legend revealed this week that she had been tied by a football club.
The former Newcastle and Cronulla star, 53, will see her lucrative contract with Fox Sports to reach an end at the end of this season and it is not yet known if that agreement will extend with the television station.
Johns revealed this week that he had been contacted by a club to evaluate his interest in training, although he was not free to reveal the club involved, but many have speculated that they are the knights.
“I have had a little focus of a third party that acts for a club that asked if there was an interest and would consider it,” Telegraph told Daily.
“I put them again … 'Let me know what is worth and then come to have coffee.'
Then he added: “If they are silly enough to pay me what I would be asking for, it could be silly enough to do it.”
Mat Rogers warned Matty Johns about the possibility of training Newcastle
Rogers says that many other great players have fought to train at the highest level
Rogers, who has great respect for Johns, warned him about the possible movement.
'In terms of football, its intellectual coefficient is huge. If transfers … 'Rogers told Stephen O'Keefe in Sen Radio.
'When you look in all areas, there are not many superstar players who become great coaches. I think it's because they see things differently from the average player.
'And the coaches cannot communicate what the player is thinking … because they are seeing things differently. There are anomalies in that rule, the Ricky Stuart … as a general rule, you do not see it so often.
The double code superstar was also not excited about the idea that Johns trained the gentlemen due to the pressure it would be.
'I don't know how it would be. Personally, I don't think Newcastle is not the place to do it, “Rogers said.
“I think that can be full of danger.”
Johns had recently been linked to the vacancy of Nueva Wales del Sur after Michael Maguire jumped to a ship to join the Brisbane Broncos at the beginning of the season, and Laurie Daley was later confirmed as her successor.
Johns revealed that he had sounded on a training role for a NRL club
Johns was not free to reveal which soccer club had contacted him, but declared that 'it can be silly enough to' assume a coach role, if he receives the right offer
But Johns declared in October that he had ruled out outside the career for vacancy declaring that he had chosen to follow the media route, instead of training, after his career as a player and that there may be better options compared.
But when Rothfield presses him if one day he would consider going on the training route, Johns said: 'It's a remote possibility but I would absolutely like to do it.
'There is nothing that can give more satisfaction than seeing players and teams improve.
'I have done many individual things over the years. I have worked with Cooper Cronk, Toby Sexton, Cameron Munster, Adam Reynolds and Cody Walker. I love it.
“But there are the things of the Bulls *** out of training, dealing with sponsors, dealing with people like you and me in the media, all that … and then all hard work.”
It occurs after Johns had apparently relieved the idea of assuming a coach's role, telling the podcast behind the stage to choose from going on the media route was the best option he took after hanging his boots.
“When people go out and tell me” Matthew Johns for NSW coach. “
'I will be perfectly honest, he feels good because he caresses the ego. In me, there is part of me who thinks I should take it and show them how good I am and win three or four in a row, “he told the podcast.
'(But) I have chosen my way and my career has been in the media and has been incredible. The best thing I have done in my life in the last 15 years is to make my life very low.
'I have a lot of fun and it is a low stress life. I put a currency to have a life like that, spend time with you (family) that with having to feel special when training.