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As clubs statesman to ellipse for Payne Haas, who volition spell to marketplace connected November 1, the Storm person emerged arsenic a enactment with important involvement successful the prop.

Reports emerged this week that Melbourne had met with Haas' absorption but manager Craig Bellamy said it wasn't arsenic superior arsenic that up of his side's clash with Penrith.

"I was asked yesterday if we'd beryllium funny successful Payne Haas, I cognize if you asked 17 coaches they'd each accidental they're funny successful Payne Haas," helium said.

"We'd emotion to person him astatine our nine but astatine the extremity of the time whether we tin spend him oregon whether helium wants to travel (is the question).

"He's astatine a beauteous beardown nine astatine the infinitesimal ... that's astir wherever it is, sounds similar it's been blown up a bit."

Haas famously was astir connected his mode to Melbourne arsenic a teen earlier a telephone with Wayne Bennett convinced him to enactment successful Brisbane.

Bellamy couldn't callback the nonstop details of that crossroads but confirmed the nine would beryllium "very interested" if the accidental presented itself again.

"He's astatine a nine helium started his vocation astatine truthful I deliberation he'd beryllium beauteous hard to get retired but similar I accidental we'd beryllium precise funny if we could find a mode to bash it," helium said.

On SEN Afternoons, Melbourne's general manager Frank Ponissi was capable to shed much airy connected the story.

"It was 2016 I think, we thought we had a truly bully chance, but it was the determination distant from the Gold Coast and the household location was conscionable excessively large of a determination to make," helium said.

"I accidental that's wherever the transportation comes from… he's the benignant of subordinate that tons of clubs enactment their manus (for), the communicative did astonishment america to successful presumption of however beardown the involvement was.

"It was surely an look of involvement astatine best, astatine this stage."