{"id":410473,"date":"2024-07-08T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410473"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:06:45","slug":"goulds-mail-revealed-in-twist-over-stefano-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410473","title":{"rendered":"Gould's 'mail' revealed in twist over Stefano pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

League icon Phil Gould has revealed Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> could be on the way out from Melbourne<\/a> as the club ramps up its pursuit of Tigers star Stefano Utoikamanu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffUtoikamanu is a free agent<\/a> after clauses around finals and Origin appearances meant he could negotiate with rivals.<\/p>\n

Melbourne is one club interested in the prop, with 9News and Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> reporter Michael Chammas revealing on Nine's 100% Footy<\/em> that Craig Bellamy had met with Utoikamanu on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffThe meeting came after Melbourne defeated the Tigers on Saturday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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"\ufeffThe Storm are really intent on making him their next signing, they just need to convince him that Melbourne is the place to go … I think it ticks all the boxes from a football point of view, it's just whether or not he wants to make the move to Melbourne," Chammas said.<\/p>\n

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Gould said the Storm would be a good fit for the prop before hinting that Asofa-Solomona could be on the move, without naming any potential landing spots.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Everyone that goes to Melbourne improves, don't they?" the Canterbury Bulldogs general manager said.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffMy mail is that (Nelson) Asofa-Solomona won't be there so I suppose they're looking for a replacement.<\/p>\n

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"… His (Utoikamanu) next move's important. He's 24 years of age, he's not a boy anymore.<\/p>\n

"He's about to come into the prime of his career \ufeffand he'll need to put himself with a strong side and coaching and it doesn't get any better than the Melbourne Storm."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

League icon Phil Gould has revealed Nelson Asofa-Solomona could be on the way out from Melbourne as the club ramps up its pursuit of Tigers […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410475,"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\/410473"}],"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=410473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410476,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410473\/revisions\/410476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/410475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}