\n Dual Brisbane Lions premiership player Callum Ah Chee’s proposed move to Adelaide has failed, prompting a furious reaction from his manager\n <\/p>\n
Callum Ah Chee after the AFL Grand Final between Geelong and Brisbane at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 27, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
CALLUM Ah Chee’s manager has taken the extraordinary step of fronting a press conference with Adelaide after the dual Brisbane premiership hero’s trade to the Crows failed.<\/p>\n
After the Lions held firm on their desire to net a first-round draft pick for Ah Chee, Ben Williams was seething with the reigning premiers.<\/p>\n
Williams declared there was “zero chance” Ah Chee would return to Brisbane next year, with the Crows set to pick him up in the pre-season draft.<\/p>\n
“I’m disappointed in Brisbane,” Williams said, standing alongside Adelaide list boss Justin Reid.<\/p>\n
“We’ve told them for months what we wanted to do, and we tried to go through the front door and be as transparent as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’ll pick up the player welfare pieces after this, and then concentrate on getting to Adelaide.”<\/p>\n
The Crows offered a future second-round draft pick for Ah Chee, declaring from the start of the trade period they would not be handing over No.16 to Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Lions list manager Dom Ambrogio wanted to keep Ah Chee and retained a glimmer of hope the 28-year-old would stay.<\/p>\n
“Our main aim has been trying to retain him the whole time,” Ambrogio said.<\/p>\n
“We put a lot of effort into that. We put a long-term deal to him.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the journey, I don’t think there was that much difference between the deals. We think he’s a great player and we’d love to have him around.<\/p>\n
“He’ll be disappointed, I’m disappointed for him. But at the end of the day, it was largely out of our control.”<\/p>\n
Callum Ah Chee celebrates a goal during the match between Fremantle and Brisbane at Optus Stadium in round 23, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ah Chee has played 124 games for the Lions after joining them from Gold Coast ahead of the 2020 season.<\/p>\n
He became a Brisbane hero in the 2024 finals, starring in the club’s run to the premiership, including kicking four goals in the grand-final smashing of Sydney.<\/p>\n
Ah Chee enjoyed another outstanding grand final this year as the Lions claimed back-to-back flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dual Brisbane Lions premiership player Callum Ah Chee’s proposed move to Adelaide has failed, prompting a furious reaction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-215789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215789","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=215789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}