{"id":428239,"date":"2026-05-06T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428239\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:58:13","slug":"rob-baxter-exeter-chiefs-squad-could-receive-boost-from-new-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428239\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Baxter: Exeter Chiefs squad could receive boost from new investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter says fresh investment in the club could allow some new players to join in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter members will vote on a proposed takeover by American investors on Thursday &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvg0dg03402o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">understood to be Black Knight Football Club that owns Premier League side AFC Bournemouth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chiefs have extended the terms of a number of their players who were out of contract this summer, as well as agreeing deals to sign the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czx411kxngvo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crusaders&#8217; back Dallas McLeod,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c20zng2j54eo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saracens forward Harry Wilson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c89q3yjyn53o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bath centre Will Butt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a little bit of room, but not loads and loads,&#8221; Baxter said when asked how much of the Prem Rugby salary cap the club had available to spend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you say, can we go out and get one player? Yeah, of course you can, but on the whole, we&#8217;ve got a pretty settled senior squad there with a good group of good players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Is there room for a specialist in a certain position? Potentially, yes, and that&#8217;s probably what we would look at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But right here and now, we&#8217;re not going to do that until we know exactly where we are financially longer term.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter says fresh investment in the club could allow some new players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-428239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}