Cameron Munster's departure from the Melbourne Storm is looking more and more likely by the day.

A report this week suggests the star five-eighth, who has been one of the competition's form players this year, has recently knocked back an offer from the Storm to remain at the club beyond the end of 2023.

It's hardly a surprise that it's come to that.

The Storm's salary cap is undeniably bloated at the top end, with Jahrome Hughes, Ryan Papenhuyzen and Harry Grant all recently signing on the dotted line for big-money extensions.

The crush for high-skilled targets is immense in the competition, and even more so thanks to the entry of the Dolphins in 2023, who have reportedly offered Munster more than $1 million per season.

Munster's manager Braith Anasta didn't exactly shy away from the fact he will hit the open market from November 1 either, and while he won't be losing the Storm before the end of 2023, Anasta admitted at least three or four clubs have already expressed interest in the star.

So, with his future in Melbourne looking chequered at best, where could the Queensland and Australian star wind up?

Here are the five most likely potential options.

3. Wests Tigers

The Tigers are a club who haven't played finals football in ten years. That, to put it simply, means that whatever they have been doing, hasn't been working, and it's time to push the big green reset button.

It's something the club have, for the most part at least, seemed relatively incapable of doing.

Luke Brooks has been running around for eight years and is the most-capped player without an NRL finals game, while other players who have been signed simply haven't worked for the joint venture anywhere near how they were supposed to when signing on.

Adam Doueihi is the likely number six in 2023, but he is also off-contract at the end of 2023 and could also play at fullback or in the centres.

Jock Madden is rated as a future star, but is yet to be re-signed, while Jackson Hastings appears to be shaping up to play at lock in the future rather than in the halves.

At any rate, clubs like the Tigers should be moving heaven and earth for a player like Munster.

That is the short, the skinny and the final line of it all. If there is a chance for Munster to wear black, white and orange, then the club must pursue it with every fibre of their being.