St Kilda has tabled a lucrative offer in a bid to keep star playmaker Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera

St Kilda has shown its hand in the chase for Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera’s signature, officially tabling a lucrative offer to convince the star playmaker to stay. Will it be enough?

St Kilda has tabled a lucrative offer to star playmaker Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera in the hope it can keep its biggest star at the club for at least two more seasons.

The Saints have formally offered the line-breaking backman a contract believed to be worth at least $1.2 million a year which includes options to stay for as many as eight years.

But the most likely outcome is a two-year extension for Wanganeen-Milera which would tie him to Moorabbin until the end of his sixth AFL season in 2027.

The deal would mirror the contract extension which coach Ross Lyon signed to keep him in charge at the club until the end of 2027.

Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera in full flight. Picture: Getty Images

The Saints remain confident the 22-year-old will stay at the club considering his strong relationship with teammates and his brilliant development in recent seasons.

Wanganeen-Milera has become one of the top players in the competition and boasts one of the most lethal kicks in the league.

His manager, Ben Williams, has been in close contact with his client on his future throughout the season and has met with Saints’ list boss Stephen Silvagni over the past fortnight.

Wanganeen-Milera, who is from South Australia, is also weighing up bumper offers from Adelaide and Port Adelaide, but the Saints may be impossible to satisfy in any sort of trade deal.

St Kilda has not yet considered a trade return, but the club could ask for as many as three early draft picks considering Wanganeen-Milera’s importance to the club’s list build.

Port Adelaide is considered ahead of the Crows in the queue for Wanganeen-Milera, but has already traded its first-round pick in this year’s draft to Gold Coast.

The Saints are confident of keeping their star man

Melbourne flagged it would want three first-round draft picks for Kysaiah Pickett in any deal before the gun forward recommitted to the club on a blockbuster contract last month.

Star midfielder Miles Bergman has inked a two-year deal to stay at the Power meaning, he would not be part of any trade.

The likely whopping draft demands for Wanganeen-Milera would likely make it difficult to sort a trade for him which would satisfy St Kilda.

Geelong star Jeremy Cameron was the last man to be traded from GWS to the Cats for three early picks, although Geelong received two second-rounders back in the deal.

The Saints stood on their heels over Luke Ball’s future when a trade deal fell through in 2009, forcing the hard nut to make his way to Collingwood at pick 30 in the national draft.

Carlton’s Tom De Koning is expected to join St Kilda as a free agent on a deal worth as much as $1.7 million a season.

Originally published as St Kilda has tabled a lucrative offer in a bid to keep star playmaker Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera