{"id":383458,"date":"2025-12-31T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:17:09","slug":"top-14-club-reportedly-seal-priority-deal-to-sign-scottish-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383458\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 14 club reportedly seal ‘priority deal’ to sign Scottish star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Hastings is the latest Scottish international to take up a Top 14 offer, with French media reporting he has agreed to leave Glasgow for Montpellier next season.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old out-half, whose most recent Test cap came in the November rout of the USA at Murrayfield, has helped the Warriors to fourth place in this season\u2019s URC and backboned their unbeaten two-game start to the Investec Champions Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is Hastings\u2019 second season back in Scotland after he decided to return to Scotstoun in 2024 following three years at Gloucester. He had originally made his first-team breakthrough at Bath before linking up with Glasgow<\/a> for four seasons and then going back to the Premiership.<\/p>\n

Now he is said to have agreed to try out the Top 14<\/a> and his decision to go to Montpellier will see him join up with a pair of fellow Scots, Test scrum-half Ali Price, who joined this year from Edinburgh, and Stuart Hogg<\/a>, who came out of retirement at the start of the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cScouring the fly-half market\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Full-back Hogg started 12 matches last season<\/a> at out-half before a ruptured Achilles sidelined him in April. He has returned to start three matches at No.10 since then, most recently versus Zebre in the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n

Argentine Domingo Miotti has been Montpellier\u2019s first-choice out-half this season, starting in 10 of their 13 Top 14 matches, and the reported arrival of Hastings will be accommodated by the departure of Thomas Vincent to Oyonnax.<\/p>\n

A rugbyrama.fr<\/a> report read: \u201cMontpellier had for weeks been scouring the fly-half market and had made progress on various leads, ranging from Baby Black Rivez Reihana to Anthony Belleau and Enzo Herve, but the club have finally settled on Adam Hastings.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to our information, the Scottish international fly-half has agreed to join Montpellier next season. The son of the legendary Gavin Hastings, Adam currently plays for the Glasgow Warriors, recent Champions Cup winners against Toulouse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving previously played for Bath and Gloucester, the back-up to Finn Russell for the Scottish national team is determined to take on the French challenge starting in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically, Hastings will have the opportunity to form an all-Scottish half-back pairing at Montpellier alongside scrum-half Ali Price, who arrived last July from Edinburgh. He will share the number 10 jersey with another compatriot, the versatile Stuart Hogg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Montpellier finalised this priority deal, one of their current fly-halves found a new club: Thomas Vincent will be joining Oyonnax next summer. The former Agen player is coming to the end of his two-year contract with Montpellier, for whom he has made 21 appearances so far without managing to establish himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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