{"id":67095,"date":"2025-08-14T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67095\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:40:08","slug":"rival-nrl-club-approached-by-third-party-over-david-fifitas-future-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67095\/","title":{"rendered":"Rival NRL club approached by third party over David Fifita’s future – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An independent third party has reportedly made contact with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> to gauge interest in the future of David Fifita<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second-rower has endured the season from hell on the Gold Coast, only playing a handful of games.<\/p>\n

That has come as a result of a persistent injury, and at one point, being dropped by coach Des Hasler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Hasler may not be in charge of the Titans next year as the club hurtles towards the wooden spoon – in what would be the first of Hasler’s career – Fifita is another not guaranteed to be at the Titans next year.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the Gold Coast are keen on Fifita seeing out his contract through to the end of next year, but previous reports suggest the situation may be untenable.<\/p>\n

No other club have the right to negotiate with Fifita until November 1 without the express permission of the Gold Coast, but\u00a0News Corp\u00a0is reporting a third party has now become involved to understand if there is any interest from\u00a0Wayne Bennett<\/a> and his recruitment staff to sign Fifita.<\/p>\n

The Rabbitohs themselves will likely only narrowly avoid the wooden spoon this year after a disastrous, injury-riddled campaign.<\/p>\n

South Sydney won’t act on the information until they are allowed to do so under NRL<\/a> rules, and as such, it’s not clear if they have an appetite to sign Fifita, either for 2026 if he becomes available, or in 2027.<\/p>\n

Their own salary cap position is a tricky one with plenty of top-end contracts led by those for Cameron Murray<\/a> and Latrell Mitchell<\/a>, while they are still balancing a number of plates, with Jye Gray<\/a>‘s contract the most pressing to be upgraded and extended ahead of the Perth Bears<\/a> entering the competition in 2027.<\/p>\n

First mentions of Fifita being linked to the Rabbitohs were made about a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n

The second-rower could well find himself leaving the Titans at the end of 2026 if not before, even if not for South Sydney.<\/p>\n

It’s believed other Sydney-based clubs would be interested in his services, while the Perth Bears<\/a> would almost certainly make a play as well, as they look to build a 30-man squad from scratch ahead of their entry into the NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifita is currently on more than a million dollars per season at the Titans, and, combined with Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, who is also now seemingly set to test the open market from November 1, the club are paying more than $2 million – or about a sixth of their salary cap – on the two Origin-calibre forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An independent third party has reportedly made contact with the South Sydney Rabbitohs to gauge interest in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-67095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67095","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=67095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}