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\u201cClayton Oliver has confirmed his desire to be traded to GWS. GWS will now work with Melbourne to strike a deal between the clubs,\u201d Gieschen said in a statement to AFL Media\u2019s Callum Twomey.<\/p>\n
Nine\u2019s Tom Morris said the Giants \u201cmoved swiftly\u201d on Oliver as soon as he was advised to find a new home.<\/p>\n
GWS officials were \u201cimpressed\u201d by Oliver and the midfielder was \u201cwon over by Adam Kingsley and company in the space of 48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday night, the Herald Sun\u2019s Jay Clark revealed the draft pick that the deal is likely to revolve around, pending any shock backflip. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe will be a discount pickup for the Giants,\u201d began Clark on Fox Footy\u2019s Trading Day on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo official trade request yet, we know he\u2019s weighing up between the Giants and Collingwood, (but) almost certainly this will be GWS. It could come in as early as tomorrow. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the deal for Clayton Oliver going to be? I can tell you it could be for as little as a future third-round draft pick.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old, who\u2019s contracted for another five seasons at the Demons, has played at least 21 games in each of the past two seasons but has been down on form from the 2021-23 stretch when he was one of the competition\u2019s most dominant midfielders. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWe know Oliver was one of the best midfielders in the competition in 2021, 2022. Clearly, he\u2019s not the player that he was, but this is a free hit (for the Giants),\u201d Clark added. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor a future third-round pick and considering the Demons are going to pick up as much as half of his salary … so, if this is (something like) Pick 50, Pick 55, this is a free swing at the stumps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Hawthorn sharpshooter forward Ben Dixon was just as bullish on the Oliver move from a Giants perspective, making a bold proclamation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think this could be the biggest bargain of the last 10 years,\u201d Dixon said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo be fair, a huge contract, they (the Dees) wear half and the Giants wear half \u2014 I still think the fire\u2019s burning in his belly. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt Melbourne, it was time to go. I just think a new start \u2014 we\u2019ve seen so many players move clubs and be able to impact \u2014 I think what the Giants have done with (recycled) players coming from another club, I think it\u2019s been huge. (Jake) Stringer, the list goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Herald Sun journalist Glenn McFarlane chimed in with a thought from a Melbourne viewpoint \u2014 with the Demons previously turning down Oliver offers from Adelaide in 2023 and Geelong last year. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you\u2019re a Melbourne supporter, you\u2019re sitting back thinking \u2018why didn\u2019t we take the Adelaide offer a couple of years ago? Why didn\u2019t we take the Geelong offer?\u2019 You\u2019re thinking \u2018why did we wait this long?\u2019\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
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Oliver had been told by the Dees he was free to explore his options this year despite being under contract, and Fox Sports News reporter David Zita believes it\u2019s those testy circumstances which could act as a \u201cfirestarter\u201d to a career revival. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good little firestarter for him if he\u2019s lacking motivation,\u201d he said on Trading Day. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor a club that\u2019s effectively just kicked him out of the club, the way they\u2019ve gone about it \u2014 yes, they respect him, he\u2019s a champion of the football club, but they\u2019re going to pay a lot of his money for him to play elsewhere. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have been a pretty bitter pill to swallow. It seems like he\u2019s taken it a bit personally as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dixon doubled down, speaking glowingly of the culture at the Giants under coach Adam Kingsley. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you right now, the standards and the culture at the Giants is as high as you\u2019ll get. Adam Kingsley has got a really well-oiled machine running there,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe said Stringer before \u2014 a really prime example, getting your players right, you work hard, no excuses, new environment up in Sydney, you\u2019re away from all the spotlight of Melbourne. I think it could be the bargain of the last 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants could be set to land \u201cthe biggest bargain of the last 10 years\u201d after Clayton Oliver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[1142,638,64,63,689,55,13032,639,7491,125037,125039,3239,7803,8011,125040,125036,11238,1119,653,2105,28450,1139,3231,19125,647,7804,673,677,125034,85,26889,670,125035,125038,660,25581],"class_list":["post-199972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-kingsley","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-football-league-house","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-dixon","tag-bold-proclamation","tag-career-revival","tag-carlton-blues","tag-clayton-oliver","tag-david-zita","tag-discount-pickup","tag-dominant-midfielders","tag-draft-pick","tag-football-club","tag-fox-sports-news","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-glenn-mcfarlane","tag-greater-western-sydney-giants","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jay-clark","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-official-swap","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-sydney","tag-third-round-draft-pick","tag-third-round-pick","tag-victoria","tag-zach-merrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199972","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=199972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}