{"id":231953,"date":"2025-10-22T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231953\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:57:10","slug":"hot-property-hoskins-sotutu-attracting-renewed-interest-from-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231953\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot property Hoskins Sotutu attracting renewed interest from England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former All Black back row Hoskins Sotutu<\/a> is once again being touted for a move to the Gallagher PREM when his contract with the Blues<\/a> and the NZRFU runs out in 2026.<\/p>\n

Auckland-born No. 8 Sotutu, who is 27 years of age, qualifies internationally for three countries: New Zealand<\/a> by birth, Fiji<\/a> through his father Waisake, and England<\/a> via his mother Adelita, who is the director of sport at Auckland\u2019s Howick College.<\/p>\n

Sotutu, who has made 80 appearances for the Blues, ironically won the last of his 14 All Blacks<\/a> caps against England in November 2022 and will become available for Steve Borthwick<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n

The 2024 Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> Player of the Year, last October, declined the opportunity for an All Blacks recall for the autumn tour of Europe, which was seen as an attempt to keep his options open.<\/p>\n

Sotutu, who has played in the NPC for Auckland<\/a> and Counties Manukau, appeared for the AUNZ Invitational XV against the Lions<\/a> in the summer and admitted his agent had been exploring options.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say I had a chat [to Borthwick], but my agent went to work and explored options,\u201d he told the New Zealand Herald earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Gloucester, who lost key ball carriers Zach Mercer<\/a>, Ruan Ackermann<\/a>, and Albert Tuisue<\/a> at the end of last season, were immediately linked with a move for Sotutu.<\/p>\n

While he also attracted interest from Leicester<\/a> Tigers and Saracens, who could revive their interest after confirming Tom Willis<\/a> was moving at the end of the season, after agreeing to join Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

Sotutu, who is held in high regard by the England coaching team, might be offered an Enhanced Elite Player Squad contract, worth about \u00a3150,000, to make a move to London more appealing.<\/p>\n

The former Premiership and European Champions are now drawing up a shortlist of potential targets, now that Willis\u2019s future has been confirmed and they will start to work their way through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Black back row Hoskins Sotutu is once again being touted for a move to the Gallagher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-231953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231953","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=231953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}