The massive six-year offer put forward to Treloar has been placed at about $750,000 a season. Although both clubs refused to reveal the potential details of the agreement between Collingwood and GWS, the AFL has maintained a close watch on the forthcoming trade, which raised the ire of Richmond.

The AFL has denied its enhanced investigation capacities achieved in-house were put to clubs following reports of the Treloar deal with Collingwood.

"It's pretty simple," club president Eddie McGuire told Fairfax Media. "The kid wants to come to Collingwood."

McGuire scoffed at industry scuttlebutt, which reached the highest levels of AFL headquarters, that he had offered Treloar's partner, Kelsey, a position with McGuire Media.

"If that was what she wanted and we had arranged it, it would have gone to Ken Wood and been ticked off under the TPP," said McGuire. "But it's categorically wrong. It's not happening, never was. I can't even get Dane Swan to do a spot on my radio show for $150 without it being queried."