The Herald Sun reports Goodwin is owed more than $1.2 million<\/a> in a payout from Melbourne for the remainder of this season and 2026 that will be a \u201ccostly\u201d blow to the club\u2019s soft cap and footy department spending. <\/p>\n\u201cOf course it\u2019s going to impact then. They also have football department taxes on top of that, as much as 50 per cent,\u201d Ralph added. <\/p>\n
\u201cHawthorn split Alastair Clarkson\u2019s $900,000 payout over two years. But let\u2019s face it, clubs have been screaming: \u2018We need a bigger soft cap.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden (Melbourne might) get $750,000 extra next year. You\u2019d imagine most of that would be taken up by (Goodwin). There will be decisions ahead on the likes of (head of development) Mark Williams and whether they can save some money if they move him on.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s going to be costly and cost them in terms of (footy department) personnel next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gaz’s heartfelt tribute to Goodwin | 01:58<\/p>\n
It comes as the future of several Dees stars hangs in the balance ahead of a defining off-season for the club as it looks to potentially shake up the list. <\/p>\n
That comes 12 months after Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver pursued moves. Meanwhile Jake Lever\u2019s name has been linked to trade rumours after he was dropped last month, and out-of-contract defender Judd McVee is weighing up his options.<\/p>\n
\u201cJake Lever is clearly upset about the way he was dropped as a senior leader and whether he had enough discourse with his coach in Simon Goodwin, that\u2019s something he has to work through,\u201d Ralph said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian Petracca doesn\u2019t want to leave and the club is adamant it is not letting him go. They want to set him up for a superstar return to form, he\u2019s not quite there this year. They also want to help him off the field to set himself up for life, if he hasn\u2019t already. <\/p>\n
\u201cJudd McVee has to be kept, he doesn\u2019t want to leave Victoria. His partner is an AFLW player and also plays for Melbourne. There\u2019s Victorian clubs swirling, but they just need to keep him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ralph said the \u201cbig one\u201d to watch is Oliver, who nearly left for Geelong last year, suggesting the only way the four-time best and fairest could move is if he took a pay cut and Melbourne contributed towards his salary elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he accepted a massive, massive pay cut \u2014 let\u2019s call it $400,000 \u2014 and Melbourne paid out \u2014 let\u2019s call it $300,000 \u2014 he\u2019s still on that $800,000-$900,000 a year. I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s any takers for him,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut if I was a fresh coach coming into this situation, would I want Oliver always in my midfield? I think I\u2019d probably want him to move on. But it\u2019s just so hard to factor a market where there\u2019s enough money off the books to pay him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you\u2019re paying over $1 million for him, Petracca and Kysaiah Pickett, that\u2019s too much of a handcuff. Especially if they\u2019re not going to win a premiership in the next couple of years. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s a big decision ahead on Clayton. If I was them I\u2019d move heaven and earth to move on Clayton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne and Simon Goodwin being misaligned on the club\u2019s premiership timeline and the Demons not wanting the premiership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,684,19120,7803,29927,40513,40506,1119,40509,667,653,10145,61,40508,40510,19082,30404,681,40511,40516,40517,40515,7804,40514,677,28885,40507,40505,685,40512,85,660,17064],"class_list":["post-47323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-christian-petracca","tag-clayton-oliver","tag-death-threat","tag-defining-off-season","tag-exit-press-conference","tag-football-club","tag-football-department-taxes","tag-footy-club","tag-fox-sports-news","tag-garry-lyon","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-inside-simon-goodwin","tag-interesting-sub-plot","tag-jake-lever","tag-john-longmire","tag-jon-ralph","tag-judd-mcvee","tag-key-flash-points","tag-leads-contenders","tag-mark-williams","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-misses-finals","tag-oceania","tag-premiership-coach","tag-premiership-timeline","tag-pursued-moves","tag-rock-bottom","tag-soft-cap","tag-sports","tag-victoria","tag-win-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323","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=47323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}