The biggest name out of contract this year is GWS star forward Jeremy Cameron who, despite strongly suggesting he will stay, is yet to put pen to paper.
Sportsday journalist Sam McClure revealed on Wednesday night that Cameron and the club are not quite on the same page with what his next contract will look like.
“Jeremy Finlayson has signed a three-year contract extension. Rival clubs thought as early as this week that he was gettable, but he is now off the table. Aidan Corr is out of contract and he’s done, he’s going to North Melbourne … and yet Jeremy Cameron remains unsigned,” McClure said.
“Now, despite saying in July on SEN Breakfast that he loved the club and once the contract freeze is up, he’d be re-signed, there are people at GWS who are confused as to why he hasn’t re-signed.
“He had a contract offer on the table at the start of the year.
“Alex McDonald (his manager), who I have made contact with today, has gone back to GWS with a counter offer and the two are a fair distance apart.
“Jeremy Cameron has repeatedly told the Giants this year that he is not interested in going anywhere else.
“There’s been talk about Essendon, there’s been talk about Geelong – he’s never considered it, is what he has told the club and I take him on face value.
“So why would you hold out? There’s only one answer isn’t there? More money.”
The reigning Coleman Medallist currently sits outside the top 10 of this year’s goal kicking leaderboard with 24.
Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy wonders whether the Giants are a little apprehensive about handing out a monster deal, after Stephen Coniglio’s poor 2020 season.
Coniglio signed a seven-year deal multi-million dollar deal with the club after turning down offers from Victorian clubs, but found himself omitted on form for Round 17.
“Well maybe they’ve learned their lesson from the skipper. The fact that you just don’t pay people what they are demanding,” Healy said.
“You have to work within a salary cap and the Coniglio contract, you could argue it may well cost them Zac Williams.”
Williams is another key Giant out of contract at the end of the year. The rebounding defender is a free agent.