{"id":23183,"date":"2025-07-26T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23183\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:43:09","slug":"essendon-deny-harley-reid-is-not-interested-in-their-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23183\/","title":{"rendered":"Essendon deny Harley Reid is not interested in their club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon chief executive Craig Vozzo has poured cold water on talk that Harley Reid has ruled out the Bombers, insisting the club remains firmly in the frame should the West Coast star look to move.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the club\u2019s weekend fixture, Vozzo said he\u2019d personally phoned Reid\u2019s manager Nick Gieschen, to clear the air following media reports suggesting the highly rated midfielder had dismissed Essendon\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a bit of a laugh the other day when it came out. I rang Nick Gieschen personally to apologise,\u201d Vozzo told SEN and 3AW. \u201cThere was something about Essendon not being happy with regards to Harley. Quite to the contrary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({event: &#039;element_click&#039;,item_type: &#039;affiliate link&#039;,item_id: &#039;https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/toby-greene-sanctioned-tom-papley-sledge-gws-sydney\/95f02d019653511468f19342&#039;,item_name: &#039;Should Toby Greene be sanctioned for Tom Papley sledge?&#039;,cta_type: &#039;contextual_link&#039;,cta_id: &#039;&#039;});\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/toby-greene-sanctioned-tom-papley-sledge-gws-sydney\/95f02d019653511468f19342\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Should Toby Greene be sanctioned for Tom Papley sledge?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are open for business\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers currently hold two top-10 picks and remain active in the player market despite a rough stretch of results on the field. Vozzo confirmed that Essendon would consider trading, splitting picks or chasing elite-level talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out to market strongly,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are open for business. Whatever we can do to extract the best outcomes\u2014picking early, splitting picks, trading for high-end talent in areas of need\u2014we are definitely open to all sorts of machinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While coach Brad Scott prefers to build through the draft, the club has kept tabs on Reid should a trade request emerge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vozzo acknowledged that Essendon\u2019s injury-hit season and poor run of form might make things harder with certain targets, but stressed the Bombers are focused on creating the right long-term environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou try to create an environment for people to thrive. The lack of success no doubt has an impact\u2026 but we can only control getting better internally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon chief executive Craig Vozzo has poured cold water on talk that Harley Reid has ruled out the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","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=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}