{"id":24545,"date":"2021-01-19T23:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24545"},"modified":"2021-01-20T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:03:14","slug":"folau-ghosts-club-as-new-code-switch-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24545","title":{"rendered":"Folau ghosts club as new code switch looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/israel-folau\" title=\"Israel Folau\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israel Folau<\/a> has returned Down Under and has failed to report back to his French club Catalan Dragons, fuelling speculation that he is set for another switch to rugby union.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial code-hopping star brought his family to Australia during the Christmas break but was expected to return to France for a second season of Super League after joining the club last year.<\/p>\n<p>Catalans resume training in less than two weeks and the club hasn&#x27;t heard from Folau, fearing he won&#x27;t fulfill his rich contract with the club this season.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It doesn&#x27;t look good,&quot; a Catalans official told Wide World of Sports. &quot;The feeling is he won&#x27;t be back.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1c79553a-4520-4a1a-b03f-65dc623e9271\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1c79553a-4520-4a1a-b03f-65dc623e9271\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Folau was involved in an ugly nine-month legal battle with Rugby Australia after he continued to air his controversial views on gay marriage and other issues, before returning to league with Catalans last July.<\/p>\n<p>There is no chance of the 31-year-old returning to rugby in Australia as a result of that but he is in hot demand in French rugby, with wealthy clubs Toulon and Bayonne keen on signing him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Israel Folau has returned Down Under and has failed to report back to his French club Catalan Dragons, fuelling speculation that he is set for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24545\" title=\"Folau ghosts club as new code switch looms\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24547,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions\/24547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}