Brisbane’s list manager, Dom Ambrogio, has declared that signing two-time premiership star Zac Bailey on a new contract is the club’s ‘absolute priority’.<\/p>\n
Bailey earned his first All-Australian blazer this year and became a two-time premiership player after the Lions<\/a>‘ 47-point win over Geelong<\/a> in a game that saw him kick 3.6 amongst his 23 disposals.<\/p>\n He will be a free agent next year and is expected to be offered big deals to move from the Lions, with clubs such as Adelaide and Essendon<\/a> interested in the star.<\/p>\n Lions list manager Dom Ambrogio explained there will be more talks about Bailey’s contract in the off-season.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0King adds further Geelong feel to Melbourne coaching panel<\/a><\/p>\n “Absolute priority for us is to sign and extend Zac Bailey. There is no question about that,” Ambrogio said on\u00a0AFL Trade Radio.<\/p>\n “We have had some discussions, [and] we did agree that the best time for these discussions would be in the off-season. That’s what we’ve traditionally done [with Bailey for] the last two extensions he’s done.<\/p>\n “We’ll get through the trade period, and that will be job number one to sit down with the guys from Mac’s Sports.”<\/p>\n Tom McConville from Mac’s Sports Promotions, Bailey’s management group, said the new contract would be based on various components.<\/p>\n “We haven’t had those chats yet. He has obviously just come off a flag and is in Japan at the moment and is enjoying a little bit of downtime,” McConville said on AFL Trade Radio.<\/p>\n “We’ll have a conversation with him when he comes back and see what he wants to do. There is no doubt he’s had a career-best year, and I think he is going to be hot property next year as a free agent. We’ll work through that in due course.<\/p>\n “It will be a lifestyle and football decision, but there is also the financial component.<\/p>\n “He wants to be winning games, playing well and getting the best out of himself. He is going to be looked after well.”<\/p>\n Bailey is one of the biggest free agents next year, with Port Adelaide<\/a>‘s Zak Butters, Carlton’s Sam Walsh and Gold Coast<\/a>‘s Ben King also out of contract next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane’s list manager, Dom Ambrogio, has declared that signing two-time premiership star Zac Bailey on a new contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202866","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\/202866","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=202866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}