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The media are a fantastic bunch aren't they?
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/na...n/news-story/f4e70d54ee79501b2f4a8810c2adf89c
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/na...e/news-story/cc2f19095ce3056d102a43ea910c415f
From the end of 2015 until now the club and Nat Fyfe (and his management) have kept a consistent, low key message. He has said that he will explore his options but that he see's himself as a Fremantle player moving forward.
I love that our club does not perform trading / contract discussions via the media and keep it all in house.
Now that it is crystal clear to the media that he is only dealing with Fremantle and will re-sign shortly they are going with the angle that clubs are not offering him what they were due to this year's less than Brownlow winning form. The line from St Kilda that they have withdrawn is in my eyes nothing more than them trying to save face after being spurned by him.
I'm sure it is great for their fans to try and control the narrative a bit but every single club in the AFL would benefit from him.
Anyone who says he is not worth $1,200,000 per year as a MINIMUM is kidding themseves. That works out to be (roughly) 9.6 percent of the 2018 salary cap and just 8.8 percent of the 2022. Considering he is making $1,000,000 per year at the moment at roughly 11.5 percent of the cap the numbers work well.
Fyfe was never leaving, why would he when the club has created a great environment to foster the next generation of players with a stable leadership, coach and more importantly a developing list that will see us challenge again by 2020.
His last contract was 2.5 million over 3 years (Back ended). His form has not improved a lot since then.
A 20% increase on that is pretty close to a million a year. I don't want to pay any more, 9.6% is a lot of the salary cap, if we save 200k that could allow us to target 1 more player.









