There's numerous things that might be happening behind the scenes. So I understand why Gus might be playing coy. Could really just take one comment to throw a spanner in the works in something in any given negotiation.
For instance the Connor Votano thing where he's potentially speaking to other clubs right now, but according to his loudmouth relatives, he actually has his heart set on being a knight for life at this stage. If you are Connor and trying to get the Knights to offer you decent coin, you'd kick your cousin in the nuts for announcing that you are ultimately 100% loyal and your club of choice can just lowball you because your cousin doesn't like what someone is saying about your loyalty.
So perhaps with KO, we're quite ok with letting him go if we get a player in compensation. But there's still a lot of decisions to be made. Eg, we want a prop/centre/or whatever position we're lacking that's decent and looking like being within a year of being NRL ready otherwise we'll keep KO for now. The dolphins can potentially sound out several players about a move and meanwhile KO isn't required at training as long as he keeps up his running and gym sessions.
But in the interests of not putting heat on KO, Gould is playing his cards close to his chest so KO doesn't have a handful of dopey supporters hitting his socials telling him he's an ungrateful so and so for accepting our aid with rehab then jumping ship when he's healthy. We may or may not make a trade. But the one truth Gould can disclose is that we're supporting KO until things are sorted out.
