{"id":55766,"date":"2025-08-09T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55766\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:33:10","slug":"jayden-campbell-puts-contract-talks-on-hold-as-rivals-circle-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55766\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Campbell puts contract talks on hold as rivals circle – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Coast Titans<\/a> star Jayden Campbell<\/a> is set to become one of the most sought-after free agents in less than three months, with the 25-year-old reportedly hitting pause on contract talks with his current team.<\/p>\n

The son of legendary Indigenous rugby league player Preston Campbell<\/a>, Jayden has made the halfback jersey his own this season, having played a variety of roles over the past few years, such as fullback and as a utility coming off the interchange bench.<\/p>\n

However, his time at the Titans may potentially come to a close sooner than expected, as several rival teams and the NRL<\/a>‘s two newest expansion teams look to poach him away from the sunny Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

With the future of coach Des Hasler<\/a> up in the air at the moment,\u00a0The Courier-Mail<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that Campbell has paused contract talks with Gold Coast at the moment as he prepares to hit the open market in less than three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve thought about that [future] but at the same time I just want to play good football here,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve really enjoyed the last month of football. [My future] hasn’t really crossed my mind too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’d love to stay here at the coast. I just want to keep putting in a good performance while I’m here and whatever happens, happens.”<\/p>\n

\"NRLGOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – AUGUST 19: Jayden Campbell<\/a> of the Titans looks on during the round 23 NRL<\/a> match between the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> and the Melbourne Storm<\/a> at Cbus Super Stadium, on August 19, 2021, in Gold Coast, Australia<\/a>. (Photo by Chris Hyde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Previously linked with a move to the Canberra Raiders<\/a>, Campbell is one of many players off-contract at the end of the 2026 season, including Alofiana Khan-Pereira<\/a>, Beau Fermor<\/a>, Brian Kelly<\/a>, Carter Gordon<\/a>, Jaimin Jolliffe<\/a>, Phillip Sami<\/a> and Sam Verrills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a few of these players are unlikely to be retained due to the club already having AJ Brimson<\/a>, David Fifita<\/a>, Keano Kini<\/a>, Moeaki Fotuaika<\/a> and Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a> taking up nearly $5 million in their salary cap.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve grown up around the club from dad playing here and Gold Coast have given me an opportunity to look after my family and I feel I have to give back to them,” Campbell added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a bit tough at the moment but I want to be able to say that I was here through the tough times and then when we start seeing success, I’d love to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast Titans star Jayden Campbell is set to become one of the most sought-after free agents in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-55766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55766","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=55766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}