{"id":403645,"date":"2024-06-17T01:10:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403645"},"modified":"2024-06-17T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:06:52","slug":"keary-linked-to-retirement-backflip-as-club-makes-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403645","title":{"rendered":"Keary linked to retirement backflip as club makes move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/sydney-roosters\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Roosters\">Roosters<\/a> halfback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/luke-keary-25z4\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Luke Keary\">Luke Keary<\/a> looks set to reject an offer from Super League club <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/catalans-dragons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Catalans\">Catalans<\/a> after reports linked the star with a possible retirement backflip.<\/p>\n<p>Keary announced earlier this year that his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> career would come to a close at the end of this season, despite the fact that he was contracted with the Roosters until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Reports emerged in England overnight that Keary had\ufeff been in discussions with Catalans coach Steve McNamara, a former member of the Sydney Roosters coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/news-2024-alex-de-minaur-wins-dutch-title-katie-boulter-jab-comments-reaction-20240617-p5jm9t.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Demon trolled by girlfriend after title win, rankings high<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/the-mole-exclusive-2024-news-round-15-latrell-mitchell-jared-waerea-hargreaves-herbie-farnworth-20240616-p5jm8y.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Downside&#x27; to Latrell recall after &#x27;moment of madness&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/combat-sports\/boxing-news-2024-liam-paro-australia-world-champion-subriel-matias-ibf-super-lightweight-title-20240616-p5jm8z.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussie&#x27;s classic interview after world title victory<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reports indicated that an agreement was close to being reached.<\/p>\n<p>Wide World of Sports spoke with Keary&#x27;s player agent, Paul Sutton\ufeff, who confirmed the 32-year-old will retire at the end of the season and will not make the switch to Catalans.<\/p>\n<p>Keary has been in excellent form for the Roosters this season and has been named in \ufeffthe extended NSW squad for both Origin games this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his strong performances however, Sutton was adamant that the playmaker was happy with his decision to hang up the boots.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2024 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/NGHBKQkVweb\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7c21067a-7c79-45da-9f12-1512647f676c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7c21067a-7c79-45da-9f12-1512647f676c\" alt=\"Luke Keary.\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Veteran Roosters halfback Luke Keary looks set to reject an offer from Super League club Catalans after reports linked the star with a possible retirement <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403645\" title=\"Keary linked to retirement backflip as club makes move\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403647,"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\/403645"}],"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=403645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403648,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403645\/revisions\/403648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}