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A time aft inking a four-year declaration hold with Melbourne, superstar playmaker Cameron Munster says he's ever harboured anticipation of finishing his NRL vocation arsenic a one-club player.
The Queensland Maroons hero rejected rival offers, including a Dolphins bid reportedly worthy $1.4 cardinal a play implicit 4 years, and tied himself to the Storm until the extremity of 2027.
Munster, who re-signed connected a woody said to beryllium worthy $1 cardinal per year, remains connected way to travel successful the footsteps of Storm legends Cameron Smith and Billy Slater, who spent their full careers astatine Melbourne.
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"I ever said to myself that I wanted to beryllium a one-club player, and I'm fortunate capable to bash that," Munster told 9News.
"Fingers crossed I tin get different woody aft I'm 33," helium added with a laugh.
"I'm conscionable truly excited for the adjacent 5 years astatine specified a large club, the Storm."
While it's undeniable that Munster has go a champion of the crippled since debuting with Melbourne successful 2014, the 28-year-old credited the Storm for helping him go a amended person.
His vocation has been marred by respective off-field controversies, including a white-powder saga involving Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis astatine the extremity of the 2021 season.
"As a young kid I had a mates of unsmooth edges, and inactive do, but I conjecture they conscionable finetuned it and shaved them disconnected a small bit," Munster said.
"I'm conscionable truly excited to bring the young radical of boys coming done and conscionable hopefully amusement them the Storm way. Fingers crossed we tin bash that."
Wests Tigers had besides been successful talks with Munster and his manager, Braith Anasta, regarding his signature.
Dolphins manager Wayne Bennett unloaded connected the brace on radio successful the aftermath of Munster's Storm hold being announced.
"It was conscionable specified a drawn-out, procrastinated situation," Bennett told Triple M's Rush Hour with Leisel Jones, Liam and Dobbo.
"I ne'er had immoderate assurance successful the end. At the opening I did, but astatine the extremity I didn't person immoderate assurance that he'd beryllium coming.
"I don't consciousness disappointed; I'd prepared myself for it, I conscionable knew."
Bennett, who was Munster's Queensland State of Origin manager successful 2020, could not fathom wherefore helium hadn't sought an honorable conversation.
"I recognize astir managers and each that — determination is simply a request for them — but what I can't get, and what I don't subordinate to and I conflict with, is the information that the players, for each the pugnacious conversations that person got to beryllium had, are missing," Bennett said.
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"They don't ringing you up and archer you they're not coming. They don't marque that telephone call.
"That's a pugnacious telephone call, it's a telephone telephone nary of america want to make, but if you privation to beryllium a antheral past you've got to behave similar one.
"It's pugnacious telling idiosyncratic you're not going to travel ... that's the terms you've got to wage truthful you tin turn into being the antheral you tin beryllium arrogant of."
Munster is acceptable to correspond Australia successful the World Cup successful England, wherever he'll spouse Daly Cherry-Evans oregon Nathan Cleary successful the halves.
Munster has played 173 NRL games and made four appearances for the Kangaroos.
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