Campese signed a new six-year deal yesterday , tying him to the club until the end of the 2015 NRL season.

The 24-year-old was already contracted to the Raiders until the end of next season but the financial terms of 2010 were upgraded as part of the new deal.

The previous record of five-year contracts at the Raiders was shared by former club legends Mal Meninga, Ricky Stuart, Laurie Daley and Bradley Clyde.

Meninga was the first to commit for such a period, signing a five-year extension into the second year of his original three-year deal in 1987.

Stuart, Clyde and Daley signed theirs before the Super League war but only the latter played his out.

The Raiders were initially keen to re-sign Campese until 2014.

But the NSW five-eighth and his manager Jim Banaghan pushed for the extra year, the main reason for the prolonged negotiations.

The deal comes 12 months after the Raiders almost lost Campese, when they chased hard for Trent Barrett before losing out to the Cronulla Sharks.

According to Furner, there are no get-out clauses in the contract Campese signed yesterday, and no representative bonuses.

Instead, the latter was calculated into the deal on the club's assumption Campese would feature regularly in NSW and Australian teams for the next six years.

Furner accepted the length of the contract was greater than most players would be offered but believed Campese was worthy of such risk.

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