THE Ospreys are fighting to hang on to highly-rated giant lock Rhys Davies when his contract at the Liberty Stadium runs out at the end of the forthcoming campaign.
Several Premiership clubs are keeping tabs on the 22-year-old former Wales U20 international and are looking to make a move to bring him back across the Severn Bridge.
Davies returned to his home town club in south-west Wales in March 2020 on a two-year contract when his threeyear academy contract at Bath ran out.
He had been part of the Ospreys academy until he was 16, when he accepted a scholarship to study at Millfield School in Street before moving to The Rec.
Davies was targeting international honours when he joined the Ospreys, and Wayne Pivac called him into Wales’ set-up in the summer, but he didn’t manage to get onto the pitch.
That opens up a return to the Premiership where he isn’t short of suitors with Exeter Chiefs, Wasps, Worcester Warriors and Gloucester all expressing an interest in speaking to him.
Davies doesn’t have to wait until the New Year to talk to clubs and see what offers they are putting on the table as they tempt him to join them.
Now Toby Booth, above, who lured him to the Liberty Stadium, will need to use all his powers of persuasion to keep him at the club as better cash will likely be on offer if he returns to England.
