The AFL looks certain to cover the wages of every footballer at every club from next season as part of a radically restructured financial model to be rolled out to club chiefs this week.

And Fairfax Media understands the league will also make a commitment to cover the poorer clubs' major discrepancies in football department spending over the next six years.

Matthew Pavlich and other AFLPA directors met the AFL Commission late last month to press their revenue-sharing claim. Credit:Getty Images

With the AFL and the players still philosophically divided over the union's demand for a revenue-sharing model, most clubs have lobbied the competition to fund its entire player wages bill as part of the new financial structure which is being completed by league executive Ray Gunston.

A push by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire that the AFL adopt the NRL model and fund every club 130 percent of the salary cap has been rejected.