They will have new leadership on the field next season, and now it appears Manly will have new leadership in head office, too.

The Sea Eagles are expected to announce later this week that chief executive Tony Mestrov, the man who oversaw the negotiations that resulted in long-serving skipper Daly Cherry-Evans choosing to leave the club, is resigning.

Manly officials said on Monday they had “no comment at this stage” over their CEO’s future, but speculation first surfaced several months ago that Mestrov was poised to move on.

A former front-rower who played for the Sea Eagles and South Sydney in the 1990s, Mestrov was installed as Manly’s CEO in 2022, after a five-year stint running Greyhounds NSW.

He replaced Stephen Humphreys, becoming the club’s sixth CEO in eight years, and took over a club in turmoil after the infamous “pride jersey” boycott just a few months earlier.

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© The Sydney Morning Herald