Port Adelaide General Manager of Football, Chris Davies says the club will feature in the trade period, including expressing interest in Orazio Fantasia.
Davies confirmedย this morning that if Essendon small-forward, Orazio Fantasia decides to return to South Australia, Port Adelaide will aim to recruit him.
โI can certainly tell you that when a young South Australian player wants to come home at any point that we have got an interest,โ he said on AFL Trade Radio.
Fantasia has recently parted ways with his manager, Andrew McConville - who was managing him for six years.
โI havenโt spoken to him no. Heโs in a situation where he is in-between managers, so I imagine that once he is settled on who he is going to go with, weโll be able to have a conversation with whoever his manager is," Davies said.
Fantasia still has two years left on his contract with the Bombers.
Davies confirmed that Port Swingman Dougal Howard, has been linked to a move to Victoria to spend more time as a defender.
โHeโs got to work out what he wants from his own career and throughout the trade period thereโs the potential for us to look at different things we can do.
โDougal has to work out what he wants, but heโs a contracted player who we value really highly so right now Iโd be suggesting heโll be at our club into the future unless he makes a decision that thatโs not necessarily going to be the case for him.โ
Davies also said that young on-baller, Sam Powell-Pepper is expected to stay a Port Adelaide player.
โHeโs another contracted player who we highly value so unless thereโs a specific reason for him to go, Iโd be suggesting heโs going to be at our club into the future,โ he said.
However, Sam Gray is a Power player who has expressed interest in testing out free-agency in 2019.
โWe havenโt been told which club his management want us to deal with so weโll look throughout the trade period to whatโs best for us and Sam.
โHeโs out of contract so he is well within his rights to look at opportunities in front of him.โ
