Gus slams reports into Dogs duo's departure

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Canterbury Bulldogs wide manager Phil Gould has denied nine skipper Raymond Faitala-Mariner is escaped to permission the club, aft reports emerged suggesting otherwise.

The Bulldogs forward, on with Ryan Sutton, are contracted until 2025 but some were reported to person been fixed support to leave.

Gould refuted the reports and criticised the sum successful the process.

"No," helium answered erstwhile asked if it was existent connected Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles with Gus podcast.

Legendary erstwhile NSW State of Origin manager Phil Gould (Getty)

"I don't cognize wherever each that comes from ... radical get a small snippet of accusation and they marque large deals retired of it and make their ain headlines for immoderate sake. I don't know, they're obsessed with definite things.

"No one's been told to look around, nary one's been told to permission the nine astatine all.

"I disregard it each due to the fact that if I had to enactment retired fires due to the fact that immoderate writer made an assertion that was incorrect, I'd beryllium moving each the time. I've heard truthful galore rumours astir america this twelvemonth that things are happening present and determination and nary of it has ever travel to fruition, nary 1 is ever held to relationship for what they say. No 1 has been told that they person to permission the nine astatine all."

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Bulldogs drastic upheaval continues

While denying the rumours astir his club's contracted forwards, Gould added the Bulldogs are ever looking astatine ways to improve.

Recently, erstwhile Rabbitoh Liam Knight made a late-season power to the club portion Sio Siua Taukeiaho is rumoured to beryllium adjacent to signing. Gould wouldn't corroborate the second but said "in the adjacent fewer days we'll denote a fewer more" for adjacent year.

"As a nine we are ever looking astatine our roster going forward, arsenic bash players and arsenic bash their managers, (they) look astatine their presumption successful the nine and look astatine who other is coming done and looking astatine pathways and their future," helium said.

"Players are doing that arsenic overmuch arsenic what clubs are, it's conscionable the quality of our crippled astatine the moment, immoderate speech I've had with immoderate subordinate astir our nine and their aboriginal stay betwixt maine and them."

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