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It comes as Paul Alamoti and Jack Cogger prepare to return to the field for next week\u2019s preliminary final with Carayannis suggesting Penrith may not stand in Talagi\u2019s way if a rival comes calling for his services.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe may not play again for them potentially,\u201d he said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at this situation, he played centre on the weekend for Luke Garner. (Paul) Alamoti is back and Jack Cogger is back from suspension so Cogger will go to six. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s off-contract at the end of next year so clubs will be circling and if rival clubs comes knocking next year I don\u2019t think Penrith stand in his way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broncos back Prince’s message | 01:05<\/p>\n
Currently on the outer at the Panthers, Talagi\u2019s potential departure would also allow the club to free up some much-needed space in the salary cap as they look to retain the core of their star-studded roster such as Nathan Cleary, Liam Martin and Isaah Yeo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other factor is this is Penrith\u2019s salary cap situation,\u201d CODE Sports reporter Brent Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re trying to keep a lot of guys and you can free up money next year if Blaize goes. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt helps you keep the rest of that roster. It\u2019s a big decision to make in the off-season.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Talagi does become available, one team already looms as the obvious destination.<\/p>\n
The Parramatta Eels.<\/p>\n
Although they have signed Jarome Luai for next season on a one-year deal, Read believes the side could offer him a pathways back into the halves and it will also allow him to play alongside his brother, Ryda Talagi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are some obvious clubs that look at him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Parra signed Jarome Luai next year, but you can stick him in the centres for a year, then play him at six the year after that. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re an obvious club for me because Parra\u2019s his junior club and his brother\u2019s there. That\u2019s one that sticks out.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The uncertainty of Talagi\u2019s future at the foot of the mountains comes after head coach Ivan Cleary revealed the club is still searching for a long-term No.6.<\/p>\n
It comes despite the former Eels standout being brought into the club as the heir apparent to Jarome Luai\u2019s in the halves with him being viewed as Nathan Cleary\u2019s long-term partner.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince Jarome left a couple of years ago, we\u2019re still trying to find a permanent replacement,\u201d Cleary said on SEN Radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlaize\u2019s best two games have been at centre lately. One thing about Blaize is he\u2019s not afraid of the big occasion, and I think he\u2019s awesome. He did what we wanted him to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of Blaize Talagi has been thrown into fresh doubt with rivals expected to circle the young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-894180","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\/894180","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=894180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}