{"id":195725,"date":"2025-10-07T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195725\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:45:22","slug":"multiple-clubs-approach-collingwood-magpies-nick-daicos-about-trade-willingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195725\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple clubs approach Collingwood Magpies’ Nick Daicos about trade willingness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rival clubs have gone directly to Collingwood<\/a> superstar Nick Daicos<\/a> and asked him whether he would be open to a move in this year’s trade period, according to AFL journalist Cal Twomey.<\/p>\n

That bombshell news shows just how far the trade period has developed in recent years, with these ‘brazen’ approaches being made to even the most untouchable players.<\/p>\n

Daicos, the son of Collingwood great Peter Daicos, is signed with the club until 2029 where he will hit free agency. <\/p>\n

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He would undoubtedly be one of the highest paid players in the competition, he bleeds black and white, he plays for the biggest club in the land and has three successive Brownlow podium finishes to his name.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos of the Magpies celebrates\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

And yet rival clubs seemingly feel it is worth posing the question to him to see if he would potentially make a move.<\/p>\n

“It shows the world we’re now in where nothing and nobody is off limits and anything can be prised open,” Twomey told AFL Media.<\/p>\n

“It’s noteworthy how ambitious and brazen clubs are now that even he is considered approachable and fair game in a trade sense.”<\/p>\n

And this year’s trade period speaks to that. Charlie Curnow is contracted until 2029, Clayton Oliver until 2030, Christian Petracca 2029, Jy Simpkin 2029, Zach Merrett 2027, Bailey Humphrey 2028, Ben Ainsworth 2028, Rowan Marshall 2027… they’ve all either requested trades or expressed a desire to leave.<\/p>\n

Contracted players are more attainable than ever before. The balance of power is well and truly in the favour of players, who can sign long term and then ask out and push for it to happen at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

These approaches from clubs are likely part of that. Curnow and Geelong met mid-season to discuss a plan to get him out of Carlton. The Cats have made similar plays with Jeremy Cameron and Bailey Smith in the past as well. Every club would do it.<\/p>\n

Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell met up with West Coast star Oscar Allen in April. The season had barely started and the Hawks were trying to lure a rival club skipper.<\/p>\n

So it is no surprise that clubs feel they can go to Daicos directly and ask him whether he would consider a move. As Twomey said himself, clubs are more “ambitious and brazen” than ever, and they can be given the nature of the trade space.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos of Collingwood and partner Arlette Amor at the 2025 Brownlow Medal.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Nine’s chief AFL reporter Tom Morris revealed that Peter Daicos stormed out of Collingwood’s best and fairest award over a joke made by Pies coach Craig McRae about his son finishing second in the Brownlow once again.<\/p>\n

“He came runner-up in the Brownlow Medal again. Maybe a few more 16-disposal games might get you there next year,” McRae said, joking at some of the curious games Brownlow winner Matt Rowell polled in.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Daicos would finish, you guessed it, second in the club’s best and fairest behind ruckman Darcy Cameron.<\/p>\n

It would be interesting to know whether the approaches from rival clubs came before or after that awkward misstep.<\/p>\n

Regardless, even in a hypothetical world where, let’s say Hawthorn, convinced Daicos to request a trade from Collingwood, it still wouldn’t eventuate.<\/p>\n

There’s no world where the Pies would trade a young superstar this heavily contracted – and few clubs even have the assets to put a realistic trade together.<\/p>\n

Richmond could offer picks three and four, maybe a few of the first-round kids from last year’s draft, throw in Tim Taranto … the Magpies would still say no, and rightly so.<\/p>\n

The only world where Daicos departs Collingwood is likely when the Tassie Devils enter the competition.<\/p>\n

They will have the capacity to hand out sign-on bonuses to any players who join the club in their first two years. They could effectively pay Daicos $2.5m per season, and give him an extra $3m in each of the first two seasons as a sign-on bonus, money that would be tough to turn down.<\/p>\n

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Nick Daicos in the AFL finals series. \u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Tassie link gets stronger, given Derek Hine, the club’s list manager, worked previously at Collingwood and club great Nathan Buckley might be their inaugural coach.<\/p>\n

SEN AFL commentator Andy Maher gave his immediate reaction to the report.<\/p>\n

“Is there a more unlikely trade request in the AFL right now? I don’t think there is,” Maher told SEN.<\/p>\n

“But Gary Ablett Jr left Geelong. Tasmania has $5m they can give to anybody in a few years when Daicos is in his prime.<\/p>\n

“What if (other clubs) heard somewhere along the line that there’s something to (him potentially leaving in a few years). I’ve got no idea.<\/p>\n

“To say that it is fanciful to consider that Nick Daicos would leave at some stage \u2026 I don’t know that. Gary Ablett left.”<\/p>\n

But that is all a discussion for well in the future. For now, Daicos will surely remain a long-term Pie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rival clubs have gone directly to Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos and asked him whether he would be open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-195725","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\/195725","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=195725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}