Dylan Walker's centre switch has the former Kangaroos and NSW star in flux, but he and the Sea Eagles are hopeful the club's salary cap squeeze won't leave him left right out.

Walker is off contract and still adjusting to his new role at left centre, having switched from his favoured right edge to accommodate rising youngster Moses Suli.

With eight weeks remaining before the finals, NRL.com understands contract talks have started between Manly and Walker's management, though the 24-year-old is the first to admit his form hasn't been up to his own standards.

"We've been going pretty good as a team," Walker said leading into Sunday's clash with Parrramatta at Lottoland.

"Personally [I'm] probably not as happy as I'd like to be.

"There hasn't been a game where I've come off the field where I've been happy with my performance or even thought it was up to my standards."

Off-contract Walker not worried about his future

Of his switch to the left edge since Suli returned from injury a month ago, Walker said: "It's a little bit different. I had Chez [Daly Cherry-Evans] and Siro [Curtis Sironen, on the right] and now I have Joel [Thompson] and Cade [Cust]. Everything is a little bit different.

"I have always thought you could play both sides of the field and not pigeonhole yourself on one side. I have always tried to pride myself on playing both sides."

Domestic violence charges, of which he has been acquitted, at one point threatened to derail not only Walker's 2019 campaign, but his NRL career.