{"id":152519,"date":"2025-11-25T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152519\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:28:11","slug":"fijian-international-forward-makes-decision-on-short-term-future-for-next-season-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152519\/","title":{"rendered":"Fijian international forward makes decision on short-term future for next season – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following months of speculation about his future and links to at least five different rival NRL<\/a> teams, Melbourne Storm<\/a> front-rower has reportedly confirmed his future by inking a new deal.<\/p>\n

A stalwart of the Melbourne line-up since 2017, Kamikamica’s future has been up in the air for some time, with many believing that his time at the club had come to an unexpected end.<\/p>\n

Linked to the Super League<\/a>, Brisbane Broncos<\/a>, South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> and a host of other teams,\u00a0News Corp\u00a0<\/a>reports that Kamikamica will, however, remain in Melbourne after signing a one-year contract extension with his current club.<\/p>\n

Although the club were facing salary cap issues in keeping the Fijian international, they have been helped out by the departure of Jonah Pezet<\/a> and the release of Ryan Papenhuyzen<\/a> and Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Agreeing to remain at the Storm until the end of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season, the Fijian international is still free to speak and negotiate with rival teams for the following season as he looks to sort out his long-term future.<\/p>\n

“Tui would love to finish his career at Melbourne, but they have salary-cap pressures,\u201d his manager Jeff Jurotte told\u00a0News Corp in October.<\/a><\/p>\n

“He has had an offer from the Storm, and he has interest from St Helens<\/a>, but his preference is to stay in\u00a0Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He was close to going to Souths with Wayne, but unfortunately, the deal fell through.<\/p>\n

“I had some talks with the Broncos, but that didn’t work out either.<\/p>\n

“Tui is still in brilliant shape. If you look at him with his shirt off, he has one of the best physiques in the\u00a0NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He has a young family, and he’s got commitments here, so ideally Tui can stay in the NRL<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following months of speculation about his future and links to at least five different rival NRL teams, Melbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-152519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}