{"id":169060,"date":"2025-09-29T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169060\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:17:05","slug":"arthur-romano-hull-fc-sign-catalans-dragons-back-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169060\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Romano: Hull FC sign Catalans Dragons back on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hull FC have announced the signing of Arthur Romano from Catalans Dragons on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old, who can play centre or wing, will leave France to join the Black &amp; Whites for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Frenchman becomes Hull&#8217;s seventh signing ahead of next year&#8217;s Super League campaign, joining Sam Lisone, Jake Arthur, Connor Bailey, Joe Batchelor, James Bell and Harvie Hill at the MKM Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The France international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hullfc.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/hull-fc-add-arthur-romano-to-2026-squad\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to take on this new challenge in a different country and culture, and I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting my new team-mates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romano is set to join up with Hull FC for pre-season in November and director of rugby Gareth Ellis is in no doubt he will bring quality to the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Arthur is an evasive player, one of the key attributes you need as a modern-day outside back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s strong, powerful, fast and is a great addition to our squad for 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC have announced the signing of Arthur Romano from Catalans Dragons on a two-year deal. The 28-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}