Chief SEN reporter Sammy Edmund has provided the latest on Adam Treloar and the haggling between Collingwood and the Bulldogs over his salary.
Despite the trade being completed, the teams remain in talks over who will be paying what percentage of his remaining $4.5 million over the next five years.
Edmund believes the gap in discussions is currently over roughly $300,000 per season.
“As of yesterday it’s still a genuine stalemate,” Edmund told SEN Mornings.
“So, broadly speaking, this hinges on the Dogs believing that Collingwood’s contribution was agreed to before the trade was completed.
“The Dogs say that the Pies now, after the fact, claim there was an agreement to review their contribution later.
“Collingwood, for their part, well they believe there was an agreement to get the trade through initially and talk about the money later and that was based on the trade that actually happened.
“The trade was won by the Dogs, no question about it, which is why the Pies believe it should affect the money they contribute to Adam Treloar’s contract.
“The Western Bulldogs were committed to paying, and this has been consistent throughout in the conversation I’ve had, $600,000 per year for Treloar for the next five years. They weren’t going to bend on that.
“Now at Collingwood, he was due to be paid somewhere between $700,000 and $750,000 next year and then more than $900,000 per season for the four years thereafter.
“Essentially he was due $4.5 million by the end of the 2025 season. So that’s a $1.5 million gap across the five years on the face of it between the Dogs deal and the Pies deal that was already in place.
“That’s about $300,000 per year on average – that’s a pretty good player, it must be said.
“Adam Treloar rightly won’t budge on being paid $4.5 million until 2025. He’s agreed to that and that’s what he’s owed, but within that $4.5 million, the Pies actually owe Treloar around $850,000.
“That’s the money he has pushed back within this $4.5 million. Collingwood should have already paid him that money. That’s money he’s owed historically and that he sacrificed for many reasons as Collingwood chased that flag.
“It’s not unusual for this sort of thing to be taking place, but the size and length of this contract makes it unprecedented.”
The AFL last week gave the two teams an extension to work out the specifics of the deal.