AFL writer Sam McClure detailed on Nine’s Footy Classified that, in case a race is to be had for Oliver, it is driven by Adelaide.
“I think he’s clearly up for grabs,” McClure told the program. “If he’s aiming to leave Melbourne, which is an on the off chance that at this arrange, it’ll be to the Adelaide Crows.
“This may be a complicated one. Adelaide have made it exceptionally clear to the rest of the competition that their to begin with choose is up for snatches — that’s not saying it’ll completely be for Clayton Oliver.
“There’s disappointment and pressure building between the two parties — Clayton Oliver is disappointed approximately recently beginning on the bench, this modern part that he’s been given — he doesn’t think he’s being used perfect way”>the most perfect way he can be. He’s on six a long time at more than $1.1 million (a season).
“I think there’ll be a discussion with all parties at the conclusion of the year … but on the off chance that he’s attending to go to the Crows, the Crows aren’t paying all of that cash.
“So, it’ll be difficult to offer to Melbourne individuals and individuals that ‘we are exchanging Clayton Oliver, gracious and by the way, for the leftover portion of that bargain we’re paying a reasonable chunk of it’.”
Oliver’s shape has been down within the dumps over 2024, with his most reduced season normal for transfers per diversion since all the way back in his make a big appearance year of 2016.
It’s critical to clarify that clearly transfers aren’t the sole metric for any player’s affect; but like numerous star midfielders, their yield is distant more noteworthy when the ball is in their hands more than out of it.
“What we know of him — (at) his best — he’s especially great. He’s not an uncommonly great player now,” Hawthorn awesome Dermott Brereton told SEN’s Crunch Time in late June.
“That’s great, and I think it’s brilliant given I think we know, no one’s ever truly come out and said what his trials and tribulations have been, but it sounds like a lovely rough way, and great luckiness to him.
“He used to require the ball, win the ball, take it absent and take ground … but (presently) he’s not taking ground the way Clayton Oliver does.
