{"id":68867,"date":"2025-08-15T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:39:07","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-wales-wing-wants-to-be-best-in-world-says-bristol-boss-pat-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68867\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: Wales wing wants to be &#8216;best in world&#8217; says Bristol boss Pat Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before moving to the United States last year Rees-Zammit had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/67497498\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been linked with a switch to a club in France&#8217;s Top 14.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winger &#8211; who scored 42 tries in his 77 games for Gloucester and 14 tries in 32 Tests with Wales &#8211; was widely regarded as one of the standout attacking threats in European rugby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lam says Rees-Zammit had a number of proposals for his return, some which were more lucrative than what he was being offered at Ashton Gate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I really enjoyed about the whole thing is that he could have gone anywhere for lots of money,&#8221; Lam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know there was big money out there and I&#8217;d say our offer is nowhere near what people might think it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I liked about that is that left it purely on him to decide if he wanted money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He probably had four or five other offers that he could take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But he wanted a good rugby programme and a style of rugby that gets him back into the game and gives him the best chance to play for Wales again, which is important to him&#8230; that was the main thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before moving to the United States last year Rees-Zammit had been linked with a switch to a club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-68867","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\/68867","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=68867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}