{"id":200745,"date":"2025-10-09T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200745\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:04:10","slug":"new-zealand-international-released-on-the-lookout-for-a-new-team-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200745\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand international released, on the lookout for a new team – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After missing consecutive NRL<\/a> Grand Finals due to suspension, Melbourne Storm<\/a> front-rower Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> is on the lookout for a new team after being released by the club.<\/p>\n

Missing the 2025\u00a0NRL<\/a>\u00a0Grand Final due to suspension, the future of Asofa-Solomona has been clouded in uncertainty over the past few months as he has failed to live up to his $850,000 a season price tag.<\/p>\n

Far from his dominant best over the past couple of seasons, the front-rower only played 12 matches this year and has even found himself appearing in reserve-grade at times due to being a liability on the field.<\/p>\n

After missing back-to-back NRL<\/a> Grand Finals,\u00a0News Corp<\/a>\u00a0reports that Asofa-Solomona has now been released by the Storm after he informed teammates on Wednesday of his plans to depart the club despite being contracted for another two seasons with a mutual option for 2028.<\/p>\n

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The decision made by the New Zealand<\/a> international comes after he was shopped to the New Zealand Warriors<\/a> through a third-party contact, but it was\u00a0subsequently knocked back by the club.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI have been committed to the Storm since signing as a junior in 2011,\u201d he said via the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith over 10 years now at the top-level and given all I have achieved with the club, I have chosen to step away and consider other opportunities and new challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve loved my time in Melbourne. I’m very thankful to all the players, coaches, and staff that I had the privilege to work alongside during my time at such a prestigious club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also want to give a special thank you to the greater Storm family and fans for all their love and support over the last decade\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing consecutive NRL Grand Finals due to suspension, Melbourne Storm front-rower Nelson Asofa-Solomona is on the lookout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-200745","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\/200745","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=200745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}