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Read then warned the Roosters want to see more from their young playmaker given his slow start to the season. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it depends on how Sam plays,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSam Walker has acknowledged his form hasn\u2019t been as good as he could be. <\/p>\n
\u201cI still think Sam is an immense talent, who is going to be a great footballer in this game for a long time, but at the Roosters if you don\u2019t aim up the spotlight is on you.\u201d <\/p>\n
Anasta interjected: \u201cYou think they are watching him at the moment? Do you think this rumour is a chance of happening?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWell it\u2019s not my rumour, but we have all heard it,\u201d Read replied. <\/p>\n
Is Young the long term Dragons option? | 06:25<\/p>\n
League legend Gorden Tallis feels the Roosters are doing their due diligence by gauging Cleary\u2019s interest. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is common sense for a club like the Roosters and they are a marquee organisation to try and get the best player,\u201d Tallis said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think every club would be interested in Nathan Cleary.\u201d <\/p>\n
Read agreed every club would be mad not to make a play for Cleary when he tests his value on the open market. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf Nathan Cleary goes to November 1 and you don\u2019t ask the question, you are not doing my job because he is the best player in rugby league and he can transform you overnight,\u201d Read said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it is the Roosters or Manly or Tigers or the PNG Chiefs and Perth Bears, if you are not asking the question about Nathan Cleary, it is almost irresponsible not to ask the question.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are rumours the Sydney Roosters could make a stunning double play for Nathan and Ivan Cleary if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,302497,75282,302496,18194,302500,254747,17343,4430,302502,2057,2592,302501,5098,54310,4746,302498,115688,761,762,48267,158,30092,4598,4478,302499,85,1080,302091,2062],"class_list":{"0":"post-624503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-awkward-halves-headaches","11":"tag-bold-bid","12":"tag-bold-double-play","13":"tag-braith-anasta","14":"tag-contract-stars","15":"tag-crew-look","16":"tag-daily-telegraph","17":"tag-daly-cherry-evans","18":"tag-double-play","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-glamour-signing","22":"tag-ivan-cleary","23":"tag-john-strange","24":"tag-mark-st-john","25":"tag-marquee-organisation","26":"tag-name-signing","27":"tag-national-rugby-league","28":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","29":"tag-nick-politis","30":"tag-nrl","31":"tag-open-market","32":"tag-penrith-panthers","33":"tag-sam-walker","34":"tag-side-bombs","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sydney-roosters","37":"tag-ugly-recruitment-truth","38":"tag-western-europe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624503","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=624503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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