{"id":109829,"date":"2025-09-01T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109829\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:51:10","slug":"st-kilda-table-five-year-offer-to-free-agent-jack-silvagni-jimmy-bartel-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109829\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda table five-year offer to free agent Jack Silvagni; Jimmy Bartel comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Kilda<\/a> have “ramped up” their pursuit of in-demand free agent Jack Silvagni<\/a>, tabling a long-term contract offer for the deparing Carlton<\/a> star.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old confirmed last week that he would be taking up his unrestricted free agency after a decade with the Blues<\/a>, ending a lengthy family history at the club.<\/p>\n

Silvagni has been linked with a number of rival clubs including the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood – but it now appears another team in firmly in the mix.<\/p>\n

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\"MELBOURNE,<\/p>\n

Jack Silvagni\u00a0Dylan Burns via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Nine’s chief AFL reporter Tom Morris revealed on Sunday’s edition of Footy Furnace that the gun defender is in the sights of the Saints, who have put forward a sizeable offer.<\/p>\n

“St Kilda’s interest in him has really ramped up in the last few days,” Morris said.<\/p>\n

“I think St Kilda’s offer, according to rival clubs, is somewhere between $800,000 and $850,000 a year – which could even trigger band one compensation for Carlton.<\/p>\n

“He will meet with St Kilda in the next few days, do a medical and then it’s a matter of whether he wants to go to Collingwood, Western Bulldogs or Moorabin.”<\/p>\n

Morris also revealed that the Bulldogs are “not as confident” as they were earlier in the negotiation process with Silvagni.<\/p>\n

After locking down Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera<\/a> on the league’s first $2 million contract, as well as closing in on the signing of Tom De Konig<\/a> on big money, Jimmy Bartel believes the aggressive approach from the Saints is a sign of “flexibility” in their salary cap.<\/p>\n

“I love it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They are standing for something, they are having a crack.<\/p>\n

“[I said to] make sure you take care of the ones you’ve got in your building, which they have with Wanganeen-Milera.<\/p>\n

\"Nasiah<\/p>\n

Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“They must have some space in their salary cap, but also the length of those deals actually allows you flexibility.<\/p>\n

“The more years you’ve got up your sleeve, the more money you can move around.”<\/p>\n

St Kilda finished in 12th spot this year, recording nine victories under coach Ross Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda have “ramped up” their pursuit of in-demand free agent Jack Silvagni, tabling a long-term contract offer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-109829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}