{"id":45006,"date":"2025-08-05T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45006\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:33:03","slug":"western-bulldogs-utility-could-leave-club-for-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45006\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs utility could leave club for opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buku Khamis is weighing up his future at the Western Bulldogs despite being contracted until the end of 2026, with his manager confirming the versatile tall would consider a move if greater opportunity emerged elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old swingman hasn\u2019t played since Round 16 and has grown frustrated at his lack of senior opportunities under Luke Beveridge, despite making 14 appearances earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf he is not playing games, he reaches a threshold\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Herald Sun<\/a>, Khamis\u2019 manager Ray Purcell made it clear the talented utility needs regular football. \u201cIf the right opportunity came up, then he would go. But it has to be a club where he is going to play,\u201d Purcell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can have a very long and productive career if he\u2019s in an environment where he is playing games, or he can have another year like this and he\u2019s on the shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n

Purcell added: \u201cEveryone felt this would be his breakout season and he\u2019s a huge talent who keeps improving, but he\u2019s got to play games.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Bulldogs remain keen to keep Khamis and have discussed extending his deal. But with key-position depth already under pressure, and fellow NGA product Jamarra Ugle-Hagan also out of contract, the potential loss of Khamis would be a serious hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has the capacity to play forward or back,\u201d Purcell said. \u201cWhat he needs is consistency of games in a position at the highest level. It\u2019s how you get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buku Khamis is weighing up his future at the Western Bulldogs despite being contracted until the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-45006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006","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=45006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}