Essendon has signalled their interest in out-of-contract Collingwood forward Jordan De Goey, according to SEN Chief Sports Reporter Sam Edmund.
The future of the 24-year-old remains the subject of rampant speculation following Nathan Buckley’s comments after their 68-point hammering at the hands on Geelong on Saturday night.
Tim Watson revealed on Friday that Carlton is “keen” on luring De Goey to IKON Park and now Edmund says Essendon is the latest club to pursue the forward.
“Essendon’s interest is strong,” he said on SEN Breakfast.
“Valuing (De Goey) is tricky, it’s the promise versus performance. He’s shown he can be a match-winner but do you want to see him join the dots a bit more between those stand out games.
“(The Bombers are) absolutely in there as well."
After parting ways with his manager earlier this year, De Goey has been represented by his father Roger.
Edmund says the exciting forward was poised to sign a new manager as negotiations reach a critical stage, while also revealing that a loosening on third-party deals could pave the wave for De Goey to sign a deal worth less money, but with other incentives built into it.
“Jordan De Goey is being represented by his dad Roger and for the record, I don’t think that will be happening for too much longer,” he said.
“I’m hearing a few things this morning that he’ll be represented by a more traditional manager soon given the complexities of what this deal will look like.
“The salary cap is going to come down, but it’s matter of how much and there’s some wildly different opinions on how much it’s going to come down.
“Third-party deals might be loosened so whether Jordan De Goey can sign for less than he can command elsewhere and then it’s going to take some pretty crafty orchestrating to get those third-party deals opened up across the board.
“Roger and by extension Jordan (De Goey) were painted solely as being driven by money and you do wonder if that causes some damage to the relationship.
“If Jordan De Goey was driven by money, he would’ve left a couple of years ago for North Melbourne (on a big-money deal).
“I don’t think those comments went down too well.”