Jake Waterman's Manager, Paul Peos, joined Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage to comment on recent headlines surrounding the contract situation and future of West Coast's forward revelation.
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Jake Waterman's Manager on Interstate Interest - Paul Peos (04/07/2024)
Jake Waterman's Manager, Paul Peos, joined Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage to comment on recent headlines surrounding the contract situation and future of West Coast's forward revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Duration:
- 9m
- Broadcast on:
- 03 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
We're drilling down, thanks for Tukidepo. It's the ultimate range of trade till we're drilling down. My latest on Jake Waterman, this surface courtesy of John Ralph, who said, and I quote, Melbourne and Geelong have expressed strong interest in Jake Waterman. The Eagles should get cracking because he's very keen to stay, but there's no dealing in front of him. He's a free agent next year, and we know, of course, he signed last year off that serious illness. He wasn't sure if he wanted to stay. Let's go straight to the top. Inside 50, manager is Paul Pios, and Paul, of course, is the manager of Jake Waterman and others. Pudu, appreciate your time. Good morning. Morning, Gus. Morning, Scotty. How are you? We're very, very well. Okay. All right. So you manage Jake Waterman. Where's the act in regards to his contract situation at West Coast? We're in negotiations, probably the best way to put it. We've made a down at the Eagles, my clerk, the risk manager. We've had a sit down a couple of weeks ago now, just to discuss his current fall. The deal where we ended up last year was sort of probably filling in a lot of where we got to at the end of last year, and we sort of went away from that with Matt prepared to put some working and come back and present something to Jake that more reflect these current fall. So can you do that, Pudu? He's got a contract until the end of next year. Can you halfway through say, and I might, I hope he gets everything he deserves. I love him, and I love watching him go about his business. He'd be much sought after by more than two clubs over the knee. Can you say halfway through a contract? Well, he's playing better than the contract that we've signed. Let's rejig it, please. I don't think it's something that happens all the time, but it certainly does happen. I think there's ongoing discussions with list managers, probably annually. We review how the players are going and where the club sits in terms of how it's going all the time. So I think there's sort of more of that ongoing. I think the situation with Jake was with a new list manager coming into the group. I've done this prior before. There's always a sit down with who's on the list at the current point in time and how that sort of worked through. The situation with Jake is a little bit unique, and I think this is pretty much on the table from last year or was a long extended negotiation. It was complicated a bit, obviously, with Jake's medical issues. Late in the year, we've found it pretty difficult to get to an end point. I think it's also on the record that there were some fairly in-depth discussions with some other clubs and they're interested at that point in time, but we settled on something that Jake found acceptable to be able to move forward. I think that was reflective of the situation that he was in at the time. Clearly, here we are mid through next year, and Jake's playing a sort of footy that he thought he could play. He's coming up to free agency. The year before free agency, I think a lot of discussions start to happen about the clubs moving them away from that threshold year or other clubs, seeing that as a little bit of a window over where they can present a case. Yep. You're trying to strike while the iron's hot, and that makes sense. Paul Pios is inside a 50-player manager for Jake Waterman, who's out of contract to end the next year, enters free agency. How many clubs, Pudu, has been reported Melbourne and Geelong, have expressed interest? Can you tell us if there's more? We'll be a little bit careful here. Gosson, I don't want to put anyone specifically in that. Last year, there was three clubs that had some fairly in-depth discussion, and this year followed in, and it started off as there's more of a follow-up in terms of where is he at now? Obviously, he's playing good footy, the medical matters that we had concerns with a little bit behind us, and it started off with how's anything progressing towards a new and a longer deal towards something getting presented a little bit stronger. How many clubs do you have to name them, but how many clubs? Oh, I'll say there's three at this point. Okay. Do you think you will have a contract from Matt Clark and the West Coast Eagles presented and a contract extension anytime soon? Do you want one anytime soon? Look, I think this is going to progress pretty quickly, and absolutely indicated that it was part of his priorities in terms of what was sitting in front of me. It's always a little bit hard to dig down on exact timeframes here, but the party's jakin' eagles are working towards finding a solution here, and I expect that it'll happen sooner rather later. Last year, Pudu, we had Muddy come in, obviously the great Chris Waterman, who's one of the all-time good blokes. And I know that they were a little concerned, Muddy set it on our show. They weren't overly wrapped with the way the Eagles handled Jake's illness last year, and I think it was around, gather around, and that's where they'll trip to Adelaide and trip back. Is there any lingering discontent from that, or is Jake likely to want to stay here in Perth? Look, I think Jake's family moved on and passed those things. There was some lingering concern at the time, but I think the support from the club and the medical team and how Jake's responded through that is, I think all those matters are well behind them. I think Jake's in it, we know here where it's an important on his grief. He's been on the list with the Eagles for seven years. He's certainly looking at part of the furniture for the future, as we see things he currently is in that age bracket, I think that the year he was going to be looking through a future, never got a lot in his age group. On the list at this point in time, obviously, gets out a little bit to the younger boys coming through. I think Jake has always wanted to be part of the Eagles, and I think the Eagles always wanted Jake to be part of it. It feels like that's the underlying way forward, but all of that sits in and around commercial reality. Well, just before you answered that from Scotty, I'm under the impression that you think, well, you mentioned that it is a priority one for Matt Clark, the list manager at West Coast. It feels like you as the player manager for Jake and Jake himself want all this to happen fairly quickly. I think you're closer to, I might be wrong, Perdue. I don't want to be wrong yet. No, very true. 35, 40 year media career. But I'm very close to taking it to the bank that I think a contract will be offered and signed very, very quickly. I think you want all this done so everyone can concentrate on the future at West Coast. I think that's a pretty good summary. I know from Jake's end, and I understand with list managers, there's always a lot of balls in the air. But certainly from Jake's end, he's pretty keen to be able to put something to bed and be able to really focus on the balance a year and a year ahead. Give him what he wants. Let him start forward. Is it going to be done by 12 o'clock today? Is that what I'm thinking? If we get up here at 10 past eight and there's an announcement, Perdue, we really pissed off. That definitely won't be happening. Really appreciate you coming on. So there is some good clarity there from Paul Pios inside 50 player manager. Thanks, mate. Appreciate it. Thanks for the chat. Here's a good man, Paul Pios. That was a drill down in Jake Waterman's situation. Thanks to talkie depot. Seen a better price. We'll beat it with our price boost promise. It's in the club scenes. Actually, it's in the club scenes. It's done. The right thing and we'll be seeing Jakey Waterman's kicking goals for a fair while. It'll be a revision of the current deal. It'll be a contract extension. It'll be nice. It'll be signing with the West Coast Eagles. For a contract extension, probably all told be another contract for three years plus a fourth because of the current one. It'll be a four-year deal or something along those lines. But well done to Paul Pios and we appreciate him coming on. Not a lot of player managers. Would and it's been the hot topic and we've drilled down right there. Thanks to the inside 50 play manager Paul Pierce.