Magpies, Dogs at odds in pay saga

COLLINGWOOD and the Western Bulldogs remain significantly apart over a resolution to the Adam Treloar contract dispute.

Figures close to the standoff say the Dogs are adamant they will not be paying Treloar a cent more than a “watertight” five-year, $600,000-a-season contract agreed with the castoff Magpies midfielder.

It would mean he is still owed $300,000-a-year — or $1.5m — under the terms of his original Magpies contract.

But Collingwood insists the Bulldogs agreed to further negotiations over who would pay what to Treloar, pictured, after the trade went through, which the Bulldogs dispute.

He was traded to the kennel along with picks 26, 33 and 42 in exchange for the Dogs’ No 14 pick and a future second-round selection.

The Dogs are confident any money owed above and beyond Treloar’s arrangement at Whitten Oval is simply a matter for Collingwood.

The only concession the Western Bulldogs did offer, one figure said, was an offer to front-end some of Treloar’s wages to assist the Magpies with management of their salary cap.

If Collingwood’s position is right, the Bulldogs agreed to a trade without knowing how much it would pay Treloar.

The clubs agreed to the trade one minute before the AFL trading period deadline.

But no paperwork outlining any financial details has been lodged with the AFL.

Attempts by Collingwood to push back on payments owed to Treloar will inflame an already bitter relationship.

The AFL has yet to become embroiled in the negotiations.

The clubs held amicable talks on Thursday and have been given extra time before Treloar’s financial arrangements must be submitted.

The day after he was traded, he revealed how hurt he was by Collingwood’s treatment of him at the end of the season.

The Bulldogs recruit said he was shocked to be told by Magpies coach Nathan Buckley that teammates did not want him, given the strong relationships he had built across five seasons at Collingwood.