{"id":330328,"date":"2025-12-05T22:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:59:42","slug":"perth-bears-set-to-lock-up-another-signing-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330328\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Bears set to lock up another signing – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> have reportedly secured the signing of Iszac Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a> for their inaugural NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

Fa’asuamaleaui is heading to the south of France<\/a> for 2026 where he will join the Catalans Dragons<\/a>, following his departure from the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

Reports out of England<\/a> per News Corp overnight suggest the forward, who played 28 games for the Gold Coast at the top level since debuting in 2023, suggest he will join the Bears on a deal for 2027.<\/p>\n

His season in France<\/a> will likely see him become a full-time top tier player, something he struggled to achieve at the Titans where he played alongside brother and club captain Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tino has multiple player options in his contract from the start of 2027 and is currently available on the open market.<\/p>\n

While the Titans, Queensland and Australian prop has suggested he will give the Gold Coast time to turn things around before making a call on his future, it has been rumoured that he could be offered as much as $1.5 million per year by the Bears.<\/p>\n

The move would make him the game’s highest-paid players, with the Western Australian outfit currently having four players officially to their name – Toby Sexton<\/a>, Harry Newman<\/a>, Emarly Bitungane<\/a> and Luke Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club are understandably looking to lock up a marquee recruit in a bid to kick their recruitment run into hyperdrive.<\/p>\n

It’s something the Dolphins<\/a> struggled with ahead of their first campaign, and already the Bears have missed the likes of Luke Metcalf<\/a>, Cameron Munster<\/a> and Fa’asuamalaeaui’s Titans teammates second-rower Beau Fermor<\/a> and halfback Jayden Campbell<\/a>. All four have either re-signed or re-committed to their current clubs.<\/p>\n

The signing of Iszac could potentially convince Tino to shuffle across the country though in what would be a major coup for Mal Meninga<\/a> and his recruitment staff.<\/p>\n

The Bears, who are also believed to be close to signing Liam Henry<\/a> and Tyran Wishart<\/a>, have spoken publicly about the fact they would like to have ten players signed by Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears have reportedly secured the signing of Iszac Fa’asuamaleaui for their inaugural NRL season. Fa’asuamaleaui is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-330328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330328","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=330328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}