{"id":495940,"date":"2026-03-26T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495940\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:43:08","slug":"jonny-gray-departs-his-club-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495940\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Gray departs his club with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland international\u00a0Jonny Gray\u00a0has left\u00a0Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles\u00a0with immediate effect to join Top 14 strugglers\u00a0Perpignan until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old requested the move himself, Bordeaux confirmed in a statement, bringing his time at the European champions to an abrupt end ahead of his contract expiring this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel\/AbYd2l05pp1bM_Ix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Join RUCK\u2019s Instagram broadcast channel <\/a>and get the latest rugby news straight to your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Perpignan act amid injury crisis<\/p>\n<p>Perpignan have moved swiftly to bring in reinforcements as injuries continue to pile up in both the forwards and backs.<\/p>\n<p>Gray\u2019s arrival is seen as a major boost to their pack, with the club currently battling near the bottom of the Top 14 table and desperately needing experience in the second row.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Reus departs in swap deal<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move,\u00a0Hugo Reus\u00a0has been released despite only joining Perpignan in December on a short-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who had already agreed to join Bordeaux this summer, will now make that move immediately as a medical joker.<\/p>\n<p>Reus is expected to provide cover in the backline, with injuries mounting for Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>Injury blows mounting<\/p>\n<p>Ireland international\u00a0Joey Carbery\u00a0is sidelined with an ACL injury suffered in February, while centre\u00a0Nicolas Depoort\u00e8rehas undergone shoulder surgery following his Six Nations involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Perpignan are also struggling with injuries in the pack, including Scotland flanker\u00a0Jamie Ritchie, who fractured his leg during the Six Nations clash against England.<\/p>\n<p>Live Transfer Blog<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland international\u00a0Jonny Gray\u00a0has left\u00a0Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles\u00a0with immediate effect to join Top 14 strugglers\u00a0Perpignan until the end of the season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-495940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495940","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=495940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}