{"id":18500,"date":"2025-08-15T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-wales-wing-wants-to-be-best-in-world-says-bristol-boss-pat-lam\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:04:43","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-wales-wing-wants-to-be-best-in-world-says-bristol-boss-pat-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-wales-wing-wants-to-be-best-in-world-says-bristol-boss-pat-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: Wales wing wants to be &#8216;best in world&#8217; says Bristol boss Pat Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before moving to the United States last year Rees-Zammit had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/67497498\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">been linked with a switch to a club in France&#8217;s Top 14.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winger &#8211; who scored 42 tries in his 77 games for Gloucester and 14 tries in 32 Tests with Wales &#8211; was widely regarded as one of the standout attacking threats in European rugby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lam says Rees-Zammit had a number of proposals for his return, some which were more lucrative than what he was being offered at Ashton Gate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I really enjoyed about the whole thing is that he could have gone anywhere for lots of money,&#8221; Lam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know there was big money out there and I&#8217;d say our offer is nowhere near what people might think it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I liked about that is that left it purely on him to decide if he wanted money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He probably had four or five other offers that he could take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But he wanted a good rugby programme and a style of rugby that gets him back into the game and gives him the best chance to play for Wales again, which is important to him&#8230; that was the main thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c1w8lvgrxngo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before moving to the United States last year Rees-Zammit had been linked with a switch to a club in France&#8217;s Top 14. The winger &#8211; who scored 42 tries in his 77 games for Gloucester and 14 tries in 32 Tests with Wales &#8211; was widely regarded as one of the standout attacking threats in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18502,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions\/18502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}