Complex sentence: Phil Gould, the coaching director of the Panthers, offering an easier path to first-grade football with the loss of prop Petero Civoniceva and Wayne Bennett, the coach of the Knights, personally telling Anderson that he was in his future plans for the Knights.
Split into simpler sentences: Phil Gould, the coaching director of the Panthers, offered an easier path to first-grade football with the loss of prop Petero Civoniceva. However, Wayne Bennett, the coach of the Knights, personally told Anderson that he was in his future plans for the Knights.