Lake says his contract negotiations were more with Ospreys than the WRU.<\/p>\n
“They’re [Ospreys] not really sure about what kind of position they’re going to be in next year either,” said the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n
“I know it was very tough for them to be able to put contracts on the table with everything that is going on.<\/p>\n
“It’s not an easy decision, but it’s one that I feel I’ve got to take.”<\/p>\n
Lake says he did not take the decision to leave Ospreys lightly.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough decision because you never want to leave the club you started out at,” said Lake.<\/p>\n
“The staff and the boys are always the toughest things to leave. We’ve got a good group of boys that I’ve been with since I came through. <\/p>\n
“The coaches as well, a lot of them were my coaches at Under-18 level.<\/p>\n
“That’s the hard bit to leave. The people that you form good bonds and friendships with. The fans as well have been class over the years, too.”<\/p>\n
Lake says he is looking forward to play in the English Prem.<\/p>\n
“Very excited, it’s an exciting league, a big league,” Lake said.<\/p>\n
“It is a new opportunity for me, leaving a place where I’m comfortable and going out of my comfort zone a bit to test myself in a new league and a new environment.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited, but not ready to go just yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake says his contract negotiations were more with Ospreys than the WRU. “They’re [Ospreys] not really sure about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-642992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115748499217429548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642992","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=642992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}