{"id":36555,"date":"2025-08-01T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36555\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:58:08","slug":"david-fifita-linked-with-shock-move-to-rabbitohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36555\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fifita linked with shock move to Rabbitohs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Coast Titans forward David Fifita is once again at the centre of NRL transfer speculation, with reports linking the star back-rower to the South Sydney Rabbitohs as his future at the Titans becomes increasingly uncertain.<\/p>\n

One of the NRL\u2019s highest-paid players on a reported $1 million-a-season deal, Fifita has struggled to recapture the explosive form he displayed during his time with the Brisbane Broncos before his move to the Titans.<\/p>\n

Since arriving at the Gold Coast in 2021, the 25-year-old has flashed moments of brilliance, but inconsistency has held him back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This has recently resulted in the former Maroons forward\u2019s relegation to the Queensland Cup, where he has been playing for the Ipswich Jets over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

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Veteran NRL journalist Paul Kent revealed on Kenty Blitz that Fifita has reached out to Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett and is making moves to engineer an exit from the Titans.<\/p>\n

“It’s going around that he called Wayne Bennett up a few weeks back, obviously he’s having problems at the Titans and he’s not in favour with Des Hasler,” Kent stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think if he’ll get out, he’ll get out, and I think if the Titans can get rid of him, they’ll get rid of him.<\/p>\n

“That’s going to be the issue. How much money he’s on and how much Souths are prepared to pick up if he goes, because the Titans will want to get him off the books…but they [Souths] don’t want to pay close to a million dollars.<\/p>\n

“Whether it comes to fruition or not, I don’t know but certainly, he’s making a few calls about getting out of the club.”<\/p>\n

The Rabbitohs interest comes just over a year after Fifita famously backflipped on a reported four-year deal with the Sydney Roosters to remain on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast Titans forward David Fifita is once again at the centre of NRL transfer speculation, with reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-36555","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\/36555","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=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}