COLLINGWOOD defender Tom Langdon’s future hangs in the balance 10 days after he played a starring role in his club’s heartbreaking Grand Final defeat.

Langdon, who is out of contract and has had an offer from the Magpies on the table since last Tuesday, was spotted in Sydney today and it is believed his toured the club’s facilities as he considers a move.

Langdon received one vote in the Norm Smith Medal count: From Sydney coach John Longmire.

Fremantle is also keen on the 24 year-old, who played a career-high 23 senior games this year following two seasons ravaged by injuries.

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And despite reports last week effectively securing Langdon’s future at Collingwood, foxfooty.com.au understands there is still plenty to play out in negotiations.

When contacted on Tuesday afternoon, the Sydney Swans elected not to comment on their interest in Langdon.

Collingwood remained bullish on securing the defender as recent as Monday morning.

“We’re hoping to lock away Tom Langdon sooner rather than later,” Magpies list manager Ned Guy told reporters at Etihad Stadium.

“We’ll hopefully have some good conversations in the next day or so and hopefully that will help get that done, then we’ll see what else is out there.”

Tom Langdon consoles Chris Mayne after the grand final loss to West Coast at the MCG. Source: Getty Images

Those close to Langdon say his preference is to stay at Collingwood for 2019 and beyond, but this has not stopped the smooth moving defender from keeping his options open as the Magpies balance their attention between current players and trade targets such as Steve May.

“We’ve been in discussions with Collingwood throughout the year and I think it’s fair to say from mid-year Tom had been very keen to sign with the Pies,” Manager Scott Lucas told AFL Trade Radio on Thursday.

“In saying that, Collingwood had put things on hold I think for obvious reasons. We received an offer for Tom only on Tuesday so therefore if we were to assume that was forthcoming and if it wasn’t then we would be behind the eight ball.

“So it’s fair to say in the meantime, leading up to that, we had spoken to other clubs to gauge their level of interest because the worst thing that can happen is we get to this point of the year and Collingwood, if they landed one that we think they might have, they come to us and say, ‘look, we don’t have a contract for Tom,’ and there’s been no prep work done on our behalf for him to gauge the market interest and so forth.”

Langdon has played 80 games for Collingwood since debuting in 2014.