{"id":266639,"date":"2025-07-16T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:51:10","slug":"josh-charnley-leigh-leopards-winger-says-he-wants-to-stay-at-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266639\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Charnley: Leigh Leopards winger says he wants to stay at club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leigh Leopards winger Josh Charnley said he wants to stay at the club and has apologised for suggesting he could return to his former side Wigan Warriors next season.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 34-year-old is out of contract at the end of the Super League campaign and currently does not have a deal for 2026. <\/p>\n

Charnley, who is second on the Super League all-time try-scoring list, added his 250th and 251st tries in Leigh’s convincing 28-10 victory against Hull KR<\/a> on Saturday. He is nine behind Ryan Hall, who has 260.<\/p>\n

Although his future is not settled, Charnley would like to stay where he is.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to finish [my career] off at Leigh but I’m just trying to enjoy the time that I’ve got here because I don’t know if I’ll still be in the squad,” he told BBC Radio Manchester’s Total Sport programme.<\/p>\n

“I’ve just got to keep performing, and if something comes at Leigh, I’d grab it with two hands, but I’m just in a bit of limbo mode and I don’t know what my future holds.<\/p>\n

“I want to stay in Super League. It’s the best in the country and I want to be up there with the top try-scoring talent, but I want to be number one.<\/p>\n

“I’m really enjoying it at Leigh, the way that [owner] Derek [Beaumont] and [head coach] Adrian [Lam] are putting on performances at the club \u2013 it’s just a good environment to be in at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards winger Josh Charnley said he wants to stay at the club and has apologised for suggesting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266639","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863006302784632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}