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All's well between Fev and Ratts

All's well between Fev and Ratts

16/07/2008 2:59 PM

Carlton coach Brett Ratten insisted on Wednesday the relationship between himself and controversial spearhead Brendan Fevola has not become strained in the wake of the stand-off regarding Fevola's future at the club.

Fevola, the 2006 Coleman Medalist and the Blues' leading goalkicker in the past five years, has still not re-signed with the club despite being offered a lucrative contract - believed to be worth as much as $2 million over three years amidst speculation he is keen on a move to Sydney.

The saga has dragged on for weeks and was compounded by Fevola's poor performance against St Kilda last Friday night as the Blues lost a must win game to slump a game outside the top eight with seven rounds remaining.

The following day Ratten was interviewed on Melbourne radio and said if players - he did not mention Fevola by name - were interested in chasing more money elsewhere than that was fine but he did not want those players at Carlton.

Fevola then responded by ringing a rival Melbourne radio station saying he was committed to staying at Carlton but yet he has still not signed a new contract.

Ratten said on Wednesday the pair had spoken privately since their respective comments on radio saying he was fine with how things stood.

"We had a brief chat this week about it - Brendan and me," he said

"We didn't speak about that (the pair's respective radio interviews) and it's not like him (Fevola) to call up (a radio station) but I think it's great he got out there on the front foot
and says he want to be at Carlton."

"That is fantastic news for us and I am pretty confident he will sign."

But yet Fevola still remains unsigned and Ratten says he was not concerned by the on-going delay.

"The two managements (Carlton's and Fevola's) are going to get together to sort it out - I don't do the contracts," he said.

"The (the Blues' management) don't give me the hurry-up to win games so I (won't give them the hurry-up to re-sign Fevola), I just want to see if we can win games of football."

Another issue surrounding Fevola in the wake of his poor performance last week was his seemingly over-friendly behaviour with the Saints' players after the game - as he hugged several opposing players and did not appeared too concerned with the Blues' costly defeat.

But while Ratten said "you might not see

 
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