{"id":199185,"date":"2025-10-09T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:45:09","slug":"r360-add-two-more-nrl-stars-to-shopping-list-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199185\/","title":{"rendered":"R360 add two more NRL stars to shopping list – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabian-backed R360 have reportedly identified Reece Walsh<\/a> and Nathan Cleary<\/a> as the latest names on their shopping list.<\/p>\n

Walsh has been the NRL’s best player over the closing weeks of the 2025 season and finals series, while Cleary is a representative halfback who has won four premierships in a row prior to Walsh’s Broncos knocking the Penrith Panthers<\/a> off their perch this year.<\/p>\n

The R360 competition is promising major pay days for NRL<\/a> stars who make the switch, with the top rated players to potentially receive in excess of $2 million per year.<\/p>\n

Payne Haas<\/a>, who is at the top of the list, has reportedly told officials he won’t entertain offers unless they are north of $3 million, a request R360 apparently had no issue with.<\/p>\n

The ever-expanding list now features both Cleary and Walsh though, with reports the duo could both earn more than Haas per a News Corp report.<\/p>\n

Walsh has never publicly spoken about a potential code switch, but Cleary has, admitting he would entertain the idea of playing for the Wallabies one day.<\/p>\n

R360 players, however, will be ineligible to represent their nations after seven national boards banded together earlier this week and released a statement renouncing the competition.<\/p>\n

The NRL<\/a> have all but dismissed the idea that R360 will be a threat, and there could be more to follow with potential sanctions against players or agents who attempt to break contracts for a quick payday in the global rugby union competition where players could also set themselves up in tax free havens.<\/p>\n

Walsh is contracted until 2029, while Cleary is locked in at the Penrith Panthers<\/a> until 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabian-backed R360 have reportedly identified Reece Walsh and Nathan Cleary as the latest names on their shopping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-199185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}