King told SEN Breakfast on Thursday morning.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cAs a coach I\u2019d love the opportunity to work with Christian and coach him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fully understand the landscape we\u2019re in. I respect Christian\u2019s decisions now to explore his options but he has got fours left on a contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it would have to be an amazing deal for our footy club for him to move. If things don\u2019t work out for Christian, it\u2019s a fresh start with me and Paul (Guerra) as CEO.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got his back around walking back into the club and playing great footy, and I\u2019ll back him in.\u201d<\/p>\n
King said Petracca \u201cwould be central\u201d to the Dees\u2019 plans should he stay.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve let him know the environment I want to create here at this footy club and more importantly the style and brand of footy we want to play,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian would be central to that. He\u2019s still runner-up in our best and fairest and we all know the player Christian is. He\u2019d be pivotal to those plans I\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n
Centre bounce and sub rule to end | 00:36<\/p>\n
\u201cI respect his time and space, I\u2019ll give him that, but he\u2019d be a central part of what we\u2019re doing moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emerging youngster Judd McVee has also requested a trade to Fremantle in what shapes as a big off-season for King and the Dees.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s meeting is further proof Melbourne is seeking a fresh start under Steven King,\u201d Nine\u2019s Tom Morris told AFL Trade Radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cClayton Oliver fully expects to be told to look at his options and I can tell you he is very flat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Petracca met with Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks in recent days, but Essendon great James Hird thinks the Crows should also look at Oliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Adelaide Crows could well and truly do with Clayton Oliver,\u201d Hird added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne superstar Clayton Oliver\u2019s \u201cimmediate playing future is uncertain\u201d after being \u201csummoned\u201d to a meeting with new coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9126,117645,63,689,117648,13120,19120,7803,10133,667,77698,2105,43,117646,48340,36878,16712,647,7804,7198,44,677,1911,117647,79260,8018,117644,1144,41,39,42,40,2535,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-183861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-adelaide-crows","9":"tag-amazing-deal","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-central-part","13":"tag-centre-bounce","14":"tag-christian-petracca","15":"tag-clayton-oliver","16":"tag-collingwood-magpies","17":"tag-footy-club","18":"tag-fresh-start","19":"tag-getty-images-inc","20":"tag-headlines","21":"tag-immediate-playing","22":"tag-james-hird","23":"tag-jamie-elliott","24":"tag-matthew-nicks","25":"tag-melbourne","26":"tag-melbourne-demons","27":"tag-michael-willson","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-oceania","30":"tag-paul","31":"tag-role-change","32":"tag-steven-king","33":"tag-steven-may","34":"tag-subsititute-rule","35":"tag-tom-morris","36":"tag-top-news","37":"tag-top-stories","38":"tag-topnews","39":"tag-topstories","40":"tag-trade-rumours","41":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861","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=183861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}