Interim Fury chief executive Archie Fraser insisted the financially strife-torn club couldn't retain Fowler's services as they simply can't match the offers from rival clubs.

But Fowler's representative George Scott told au.fourfourtwo.com the Townsville club never actually made a financial offer for him to accept or reject.

"They didn't mention any figure at all whatsoever," he said. "They said they'd done their number-crunching and they felt they couldn't afford him.

"But they never mentioned any figure whatsoever to say we want him to stay."

Fowler was released from his original two-year contract with Fury after the club was plunged into crisis when owner Don Matheson gave up bankrolling the loss-making club and Football Federation Australia took over.

"I heard a couple of weeks before they weren't going to keep him anyway and the FFA was saying he's too expensive," said Scott.

"As far as I'm concerned, their onus is on keeping the club a club, which I admire them for, especially when Australia are making a bid for the World Cup, so they have to keep them afloat.

"But there was no way they were ever going to try and make him part of the North Queensland ongoing operation, which I think is wrong.

"Robbie went there with a purpose. He is a world-renowned player and he hoped to take them on and with a bit of work he could have done it."

Scott added: "It was just 'we can't afford him and that's it, goodbye' and that was, I believe, under FFA instructions that they wanted to keep everybody under the salary cap."

But he insisted that cash wouldn't have been a major factor in Fowler's decision to stay in Townsville.

"There's nothing necessarily to do with money, it is about lifestyle and everything else," he said. "He's a footballer and that's the be all and end all.

"Robbie's got more money than a horse can fish. So he just wants to play football."

Scott says Fowler is now weighing up a variety of options, including offers from 'three or four' A-League clubs but has yet to make any final decisions.

"The situation is, we are in discussions with several clubs," he said. "They are in Australia and also in the Middle East.

"Things will pan out within the next two weeks and then we'll see what's going to happen."

Scott wouldn't give away details of the interest from the Middle East, but said Fowler owns a home in Dubai and could be open to plying his trade in the United Arab Emirates city.

He believes the 35-year-old striker still has plenty to offer as a player that will bring instant rewards both on and off the field for any club that hires him.

"Robbie is a class player and there will be offers from everywhere," he said.

"If you consider if he goes to Sydney he'll put five thousand on the crowd at 15 bucks a piece that's $75,000 a game. It doesn't take long to recoup the money."

Fowler scored nine goals for seventh-placed North Queensland last season and Scott believes he could thrive in a stronger side than Fury's makeshift side last season.

Scott also claims Fowler was being made to play out of position as a playmaker instead of an out and out striker.

"That's not what he was taken there for," Scott said. "He was there to score goals.

"If they had the players there to feed him he would have scored the goals. He'd get 18, 19, 20 goals a season, no problem."

Scott added: "The bottom line is he wants to play football and that's it.

"He enjoys his life in Australia and I think there's every chance he'll end up with an A-League club."