{"id":177031,"date":"2025-09-29T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177031\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:35:16","slug":"christian-petracca-arrives-in-adelaide-as-he-weighs-up-future-ahead-of-trade-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177031\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Petracca arrives in Adelaide as he weighs up future ahead of trade period"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne\u2019s Norm Smith Medal-winning midfielder Christian Petracca has flown to Adelaide to meet with the Crows as he weighs up his future ahead of the trade period.<\/p>\n

Petracca, who is contracted at the Demons until the end of 2029, was spotted arriving at Adelaide Airport on Monday with his manager, Anna Scullie, and wife, Bella.<\/p>\n

He is one of the biggest names potentially up for grabs in this year\u2019s trade period, which begins next Monday, along with Essendon captain Zach Merrett<\/a> and Carlton\u2019s dual Coleman medallist Charlie Curnow. All three superstars are contracted for multiple years.<\/p>\n

It is the second straight year that Petracca, who turns 30 in January, has been open to a fresh start at another club \u2013 but any move will depend on Melbourne\u2019s willingness to trade him.<\/p>\n

Petracca\u2019s meeting with Adelaide comes only a fortnight after Steven King was introduced as Simon Goodwin\u2019s coaching replacement.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Christian<\/p>\n

Christian Petracca and Bella Petracca on the Brownlow red carpet.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

He was runner-up to Max Gawn in the Demons\u2019 best-and-fairest award this past season as they finished 14th and missed the finals again. The other club linked to Petracca is Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

Melbourne and Petracca released a statement in August last year, saying he remained \u201ccommitted to playing for the red and blue\u201d, which temporarily ended weeks of speculation about his future.<\/p>\n

That followed him suffering gruesome injuries on King\u2019s Birthday, then airing concerns in his exit meeting, and with fellow leaders, about the club\u2019s direction and where it could improve.<\/p>\n

This masthead revealed in March that Petracca had split with Connors Sports<\/a> to be represented by Scullie, who had already been involved in some of his marketing deals and is the wife of former Crow and Blue Eddie Betts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne\u2019s Norm Smith Medal-winning midfielder Christian Petracca has flown to Adelaide to meet with the Crows as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-177031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177031","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=177031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}