{"id":84716,"date":"2025-08-21T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84716\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:23:19","slug":"eagles-coach-hopeful-oscar-allen-will-stay-for-years-to-come-despite-contract-negotiations-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84716\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles coach hopeful Oscar Allen will stay \u2018for years to come\u2019 despite contract negotiations break down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019ve been in constant dialogue with Oscar and his management all year, so we\u2019re still working through it,\u201d McQualter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a restricted free agent. We understand the position of where that lies within the industry, but we see Oscar as a required player.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t heard the comments, so I probably can\u2019t speak exactly to them, but as I said, we\u2019ve got a list management team. We\u2019re in constant dialogue, and we\u2019ll work through that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eagles coach Andrew McQualter.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

If Allen leaves, West Coast are set to receive band one compensation – which would equate to pick No.2.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s left many pundits viewing the situation as a win-win, with Allen able to revive his career at a premiership contender in Brisbane, and West Coast receiving a highly-valued pick that will help turbo-charge their rebuild.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a win-win position the Eagles can never admit to publicly, and McQualter was quick to play a straight bat.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019m not going to speculate,\u201d McQualter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said, Oscar\u2019s a required player at our football club. We\u2019re working closely with his management and we\u2019re hopeful he\u2019ll be here for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQualter was more confident when speaking about the future of Ryan, who is contracted for next year but is being sounded out by several Victorian clubs.<\/p>\n

St Kilda are reportedly front of the queue for Ryan\u2019s services.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLiam\u2019s a contracted player. He\u2019s an important player for us,\u201d McQualter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you read every article about player movement at this time of the year, there\u2019s 500 players changing clubs, which we know doesn\u2019t end up happening like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always good players like Liam. They attract interest from other clubs, which we understand.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiam will be with us next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

West Coast (1-21) will finish their wooden spoon campaign on Saturday night when they host Sydney (11-11) at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve been in constant dialogue with Oscar and his management all year, so we\u2019re still working through it,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-84716","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\/84716","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=84716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}