Nathan Cleary cheers on girlfriend Mary Fowler from the stands as the Matildas forward stars in Man City's 2-1 WSL victory vs Aston Villa

Fresh from spearheading Penrith's 4th successive premiership title, Nathan Cleary has been enjoying a travel complete to Europe to walk immoderate clip pinch his woman Mary Fowler. 

Cleary looks group to clasp disconnected connected undergoing room connected his troublesome enarthrosis wounded until he returns to Australia, pinch nan halfback having flown complete to nan United Kingdom a week ago. 

In that time, he's been very engaged catching up pinch his woman Fowler, who connected Sunday, helped Manchester City clinch a 2-1 triumph against Aston Villa astatine the Joie Stadium. 

The Australian sporting powerfulness mates person been enjoying immoderate clip together, being pictured a week agone astatine Old Trafford watching nan Super League Grand Final betwixt Wigan and Hull Kingston Rovers. 

Fowler besides shared a threat of Cleary connected her Instagram successful caller days, pinch nan Penrith prima looking done a camera that still had its lens screen on. 

'Nice photograph babes,' Fowler captioned nan picture.

Fowler has had a engaged fewer weeks of precocious pinch Man City, pinch nan Matildas prima heading retired to Vienna past week for City's Women's Champions League triumph against St Polten. 

The 21-year-old has been earnestly impressing for City and has 2 goals successful each competitions truthful acold this season. 

And today, Cleary popped up successful nan stands astatine nan Joie Stadium to cheer connected his girlfriend. 

The Panthers prima shared a image connected his Instagram communicative appearing to show Fowler playing for Man City. 

City would show their resilience to travel backmost from going a extremity down, pinch second-half goals from Lauren Hemp and Jill Roord helping support Gareth Taylor's broadside 3 points clear of rivals Manchester United astatine nan apical of nan WSL. 

Cleary, meanwhile, has precocious poured acold h2o connected rumours that person linked him pinch a move distant from nan Panthers. Some reports had claimed that he could move to Europe to beryllium person to his partner, Fowler. 

But nan NRL star, whose statement astatine nan Panthers runs retired successful 2027, claimed he wasn't readying connected moving distant from nan nine anytime soon. 

It comes aft Former Rugby Australia president Hamish McLennan claimed that nan Wallabies should effort to poach Cleary from nan Panthers, by offering him a ample sum of money. 

Joseph Suaalii precocious made nan telephone to switch codes, and McLennan believes Rugby Australia should do nan aforesaid pinch Cleary.  

'Joseph [Suaalii] has already driven monolithic liking successful rugby national and paid for himself complete and complete again,' McLennan told SMH.

'He's a world rugby superstar earlier he has moreover pulled connected a Wallaby jumper, and he'll beryllium a awesome domiciled exemplary for aspiring young players.

'The decades-long under-performance of nan Wallabies intends they request finance successful nan apical tier to thrust worth successful sponsorship, media authorities and crowds. We haven't won a World Cup since 1999, and a Bledisloe Cup successful 23 years, truthful you don't request much grounds nan strategy needs an overhaul and to beryllium centralised.'

McLennan wants nan recruitment thrust into nan NRL to proceed and urges rugby to unfastened nan chequebook for Panthers playmaker Nathan Cleary.

'I'd beryllium having a ace astatine nan likes of Nathan Cleary and a fewer others,' he said. 

'The crippled needs different 5 Josephs arsenic nan World Cup for '27 [to beryllium played successful Australia] is conscionable astir nan area and nan timepiece is ticking ... Thank deity for Joseph, because that's each everyone is talking about. 

'Australia is No.10 successful nan world [rankings] and needs an injection of talent aliases location will beryllium thing near to sell.'