{"id":48930,"date":"2025-08-06T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:55:09","slug":"cameron-munster-future-manager-braith-anasta-speaks-after-craig-bellamy-addresses-perth-bears-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48930\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Munster future, manager Braith Anasta speaks after Craig Bellamy addresses Perth Bears rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation over Cameron Munster\u2019s future has been rife but his manager Braith Anasta has declared the situation a \u201cnon-event\u201d despite Storm coach Craig Bellamy seemingly being open to losing the superstar half.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours the incoming Perth franchise could make a mammoth offer of close to $2 million a season for Munster, who is off-contract at the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/storm-set-for-surprise-hughes-boost-as-bellamy-gives-update-on-injured-no7-munster-talks\/news-story\/e7fb4232fa0130d4f139910b3587aaff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Addressing the speculation on Wednesday<\/a>, Bellamy made it clear the club wanted to keep the Test and Queensland star, but also accepted the prospect of the 31-year-old moving on was a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameron\u2019s got to do what\u2019s right for him and at the end of the day if that\u2019s going to Perth, it\u2019s the best thing for him and his family. What he\u2019s done for our club, we\u2019re not going to be dirty on that,\u201d Bellamy said.<\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo?<a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=nrl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cam Munster free to explore Perth switch | 02:22<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019d love to keep him at our club and we\u2019ll do everything we can to keep him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NRL 360 host Anasta, who manages Munster, took the opportunity to \u201cclear a few things up\u201d in discussing Bellamy\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameron doesn\u2019t want to leave Melbourne and Melbourne dont want to let him go. At the moment it\u2019s all just speculation,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is for sure, I\u2019m not stopping him to Perth. I\u2019m not allowed to shop him to Perth, but also, I don\u2019t need to. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a unique situation because you\u2019ve got a new franchise which doesnt come along too often and they could have interest in him or in building a team around him as a marquee player. Then you\u2019ve got Melbourne Storm who are trying to fit five or six players, superstars \u00a0into their salary cap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about Munster joining the Bears has included suggestions he could even be released by the Storm early but Anasta again stressed none of those talks had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scenario as it is, nothing is going to change. He\u2019s going to be at Melbourne for the next couple of years and that\u2019s it,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <\/p>\n<p>CRAWLS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-opinion-and-analysis-why-souths-must-target-luke-metcalf-transfer-news-market-phil-gould-treating-fans-like-mugs-over-lahclan-galvin-paul-crawley\/news-story\/f180b0af70c86d468326db6572468c97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">$1m move Souths are mad not to make; how Gus is treating fans like mugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dodd free to leave | 00:20<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything changes and there comes a point where all of us have got to come together and have a chat about it, we will, but right now there\u2019s really nothing to talk about unless things change in terms of who they sign and where the cap is at and all that. Right now it is a non-event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NRL 360 panellists and commentator Dan Ginnane felt it was notable that Bellamy mentioned only the Bears in his comments about Munster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made it clear they want to keep him but there was something about the way he talked about Perth. &#8230; it seems very specific that Melbourne are comfortable with Cam going off to Perth. That\u2019s what it feels like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd how old is he &#8230; 31? He could make a lot of money in Perth and that\u2019s why I think they probably won\u2019t want to stand in his way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation over Cameron Munster\u2019s future has been rife but his manager Braith Anasta has declared the situation a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,18194,4567,8089,12732,763,41606,647,4466,761,762,158,677,46,701,7889,85,41607,660,3439],"class_list":["post-48930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-braith-anasta","tag-cameron-munster","tag-craig-bellamy","tag-dan-ginnane","tag-fox-league","tag-marquee-player","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-queensland","tag-salary-cap","tag-sports","tag-things-change","tag-victoria","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48930","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=48930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}