COLLINGWOOD will today be asked to fork out as much as $300,000 a season to see the back of Adam Treloar.
Treloar’s future will be determined by how much the Magpies are willing to pay to see the midfielder play for the Western Bulldogs next season.
While there is no formal offer on the table from the club, the Bulldogs are prepared to pay Treloar $600,000 a season for the next five years.
That leaves a gap of around $1.5 million on what Treloar is owed by Collingwood and what the Dogs are willing to pay.
Will the Pies pay $1.5 million - $300,000 a year – over the next five years just to get Treloar out of the club?
Treloar, 27, doesn’t want to leave a cent on the table given he has long been owed a significant sum of money.
So if the two clubs can’t come to an agreement he is happy to go back to Collingwood despite coach Nathan Buckley telling him that he and senior players want him to move on.
It is hoped by the Treloar camp that one more year at Collingwood would see more options available to him in 12 months’ time.
But at the same time, he is excited about the prospect of joining the Bulldogs and was impressed by coach Luke Beveridge during their meeting on Tuesday.
The Dogs insist they have the capacity to bring in Treloar and keep wantaway midfielder Josh Dunkley.
The Bulldogs remain steadfast over their refusal to release Dunkley to Essendon for anything other than two good first round picks.
It’s understood the club is united from board level down to hold Dunkley to a contract that has two years to run if the Bombers don’t come to the party.
Essendon, for their part, are adamant they will not be offering two first round picks and say they will be “bankrupting” the club by doing so.
Yet the Bombers are confident they can eat into the Bulldogs resolve and get Dunkley in the door before 7.30pm.
The Western Bulldogs have picks 14, 41 and 54 in this year’s national draft. Pick 14 would appear to form the spine of any trade for Treloar given the Bulldogs have academy prodigy Jamarra Ugle-Hagan waiting in the draft.