{"id":330476,"date":"2025-08-09T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330476\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:57:16","slug":"welsh-team-emerge-as-surprise-contenders-in-major-battle-to-sign-louis-rees-zammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330476\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh team emerge as surprise contenders in major battle to sign Louis Rees-Zammit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Rees-Zammit may be coming ‘home’ in every sense of the wordLouis Rees-Zammit could play his club and international rugby in Wales. (Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency Ltd)<\/p>\n

Cardiff Rugby have reportedly emerged as surprise contenders to sign Louis Rees-Zammit ahead of his return to rugby. The former Wales international left rugby in January 2024 to become an NFL player but has returned after a season with Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Gloucester Rugby winger did not play for Jaguars despite being part of their 17-player practice squad, and is now hoping to return to club and international rugby. He revealed to Sky Sports last week that he has received “loads of interest”<\/a> since the announcement was made.<\/p>\n

RugbyPass have reported<\/a> that Cardiff<\/a>, who are currently owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, are in the race to sign Rees-Zammit.<\/p>\n

If he were to pen a deal at the Arms Park, it would be a substantial shot in the arm for the game going forward in Wales.<\/p>\n

Rees-Zammit will no doubt be the subject of interest from across England and France, too. The 24-year-old’s stock has risen massively since his bombshell move, and his rugby ability coupled with commercial potential will make it an incredibly tough battle for his signature.<\/p>\n

Cardiff have already signed Wales stars Ioan Lloyd and Taine Basham, and with an EPCR Challenge Cup group that includes Racing 92 and Ulster, firepower like Rees-Zammit’s could be very handy next season. The obvious caveat here is how Cardiff would finance such a deal, of course.<\/p>\n

Because Rees-Zammit won’t be short of interest and he will surely be allowed to name his price. He is also understood to be a target of the new breakout R360 league, which is aiming to poach the world’s greatest players on huge contracts in a eight-franchise competition set to take place across the world in 2026.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Mail, Rees-Zammit will sign a 12-month contract with a club for the 2025\/2026 season, and then join the R360 league.<\/p>\n

R360, should it get off the ground, would take place in London, Tokyo, Dubai, Cape Town and Miami.<\/p>\n

Some players could earn \u00a3740,000 a season, which will run from September to December 2026, with just eight games to begin with.<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears are also reportedly interested in opening contract talks with the Welshman, according to The Telegraph, <\/a>as they have space in the salary cap and need a winger for the new season.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports, Rees-Zammit provided clarity on his current situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I obviously can\u2019t name teams, but we\u2019ve had a load of interest, which is unbelievable,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You know, I\u2019m very grateful for that. We\u2019re still going through what the full plan is for me.<\/p>\n

“Obviously the season starts pretty soon. So it\u2019s about finding the right team for me in terms of location, in terms of how quick I\u2019ve got to get into camp.<\/p>\n

“All of these things are going to happen pretty sharpish, and because the season\u2019s right around the corner, so all of these things are going to happen pretty sharpish.<\/p>\n

“So me and my brother are going through negotiations and seeing teams interested, which is amazing. So we should find out in the next week or so.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit may be coming ‘home’ in every sense of the wordLouis Rees-Zammit could play his club and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,13416,4884,47465,16,15,1764,14261],"class_list":{"0":"post-330476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff-rugby","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales","15":"tag-welsh-rugby-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998689654009919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330476","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=330476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}