A Super League supremo has made the shocking claim Nathan Cleary wouldn’t get a start in his side after the halfback shut down speculation of a potential move abroad.
Clear, now a four-time NRL premiership winner, was overseas for the Super League Grand Final last weekend to support good mate Tyrone May in his Hull KR side’s loss to Wigan.
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“I won’t be moving over here any time soon,” Cleary said when asked on the swirling rumours during the game.
Despite the 27-year-old being regarded as the code’s best player, Wigan chief executive Kris Radlinski made a bold claim when speaking to SEN on 파워볼 Wednesday.
He wasn’t sure Cleary, a player any club would be desperate to have on their books, would find a place in the Super League champions’ top 17.
“You know what, I might be the only club in the world who says he might not get into our team,” Radlinski said.
“I mean that really respectfully because I love him but at the minute I’ve got Bevan (French) at No. 6 and I’ve got a guy at No. 7 called Harry Smith who had an outstanding grand final and we’ve got him long-term and I believe he is the future.
“I think (Cleary) witnessed the game at Old Trafford and he would have been really impressed by what he saw.