No clubs have made an offer for Adelaide Crow Josh Jenkins with only days to go this trade period
He wants to go, and the Crows want him out, but no other club has come forward with an offer for Josh Jenkins and there are only days to go for him to engineer a move.
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No clubs have yet to come to the Crows with any offer for Josh Jenkins, with his management and Adelaide now having days to find the out of favour forward a new home.
After spending much of the year in the SANFL, despite a solid record at AFL level, Jenkins and the club mutually agreed to part ways.
Last month Jenkins said he felt the writing was on the wall for him and he would look to go to any other club in the league to continue in the AFL.
This would also involve him taking a significant pay-cut having signed a five-year deal in July 2016 worth about $600,000 a season.
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Jenkins, who averages two goals a game, could cost a new club as little as $200,000 plus match payments.
But Crows list manager Justin Reid said there had been zero concrete interest from other clubs for the 30-year-old.
“Not at this stage no,” he said when asked on Monday if any club had came forward with an offer for Jenkins.
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Jenkins has been linked with a move to Geelong on numerous occasions this trade period.
But The Advertiser understands this is unlikely to happen at all.
Collingwood and Essendon, where Jenkins began his career, have also been suggested as clubs that should look at recruiting Jenkins.
The lack of concrete interest has now raised the possibility that Jenkins could be unable to engineer a move away from West Lakes with only two days left of the trade period.
There is still confidence that Jenkins finds a new club by Wednesday night, but it isn’t as bullish as it was at the start of the trade period.
Jenkins is currently in America.
His potential departure is one of a number of deals the Crows will be hoping to finalise by Wednesday night.
Reid said there had been some more dialogue with the Western Bulldogs and Gold Coast Suns over the weekend for deals for Alex Keath and Hugh Greenwood respectively but there was still some distance to cover to strike up deals for the two former Category B rookies.
Sam Jacobs to GWS was expected to be finalised early last week but is now being facilitated by a trade rather than a free agency signing.