{"id":372345,"date":"2026-04-10T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:41:14","slug":"exit-rumours-fueled-for-nathan-cleary-as-shock-bid-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372345\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit rumours fueled for Nathan Cleary as shock bid launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penrith Panthers<\/a> star Nathan Cleary<\/a> has an offer on the table to join the English Super League<\/a>, with Hull FC<\/a> understood to be ready to pay him one million pounds per year.<\/p>\n

Cleary, who has won four NRL<\/a> premierships with the Penrith Panthers<\/a> and is a current State of Origin<\/a> and Australian representative, would be one of the biggest scalps in the history of the English game if he made the switch.<\/p>\n

Ben Elias revealed the news on Fox Sports show NRL<\/a> 360.<\/p>\n

“Literally, this is from Gary Schofield over in England<\/a>, the ex-captain for England<\/a> once upon a time,” Elias said.<\/p>\n

“He says that Nathan Cleary<\/a> has been offered 1 million pounds a year for four years at Hull.<\/p>\n

“That is big, big bucks, so the level is now set way up here.”<\/p>\n

Cleary has previously indicated he would be willing to leave the NRL<\/a> if the right opportunity in either rugby union or the English Super League<\/a> became available.<\/p>\n

The offer from Hull is set at an intriguing time both for Cleary and the club.<\/p>\n

The English outfit parted ways with John Cartwright<\/a> earlier this week, although he will remain in charge of the club until the end of the year, while Cleary’s partner, soccer player Mary Fowler, lives in England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has fuelled speculation that Cleary will look for a way out of the NRL<\/a> at the end of his current deal where he is paid more than a million dollars per season.<\/p>\n

The star halfback admitted recently that, while he has never been to free agency before, he will likely test November 1 this year to see what is on the table from other NRL<\/a> clubs, including the PNG Chiefs<\/a> who will be cashed up and have tax breaks to help their cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penrith Panthers star Nathan Cleary has an offer on the table to join the English Super League, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-372345","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\/372345","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=372345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}