Sep 22, 2026 · 13 min · 9 segments
Joel Amartey has decided to continue his career in Navy Blue as a Free Agent. 🔵 If you enjoy our content, don’t forget to rate and leave a review — your support means the world! Up the Baggers!…
And it has been reported on AFL.com.au and Kel Toomey, who is, I guess, one of the more reputable news breakers when it comes to all things news around the free agency trade and draft period.
It says, headlined, Make Me Blue, Swans goal kicker set to join Carlton as free agent.
Joel Amati wants to move to Carlton during this offseason.
And just reading here, the tweet from Kel Toomey himself says, Joel Amati has his exit meeting tomorrow at the Swans.
He wants to join the Blues as an unrestricted free agent.
And the article, let's just read it out, says there's been a major development at Sydney with Joel Amati set to join Carlton next month.
Amati is a free agent out of contract at the Swans and has been weighing up major interest from the Blues all season.
The 26-year-old played 15 senior games this year but was overlooked for last weekend's prelim final loss to Friot.
The key forward kicked 42 goals in 25 games as the Swans made the grand final in 2024, but has managed just 23 games since then due to a series of injuries and a suspension.
Charlie Curnow, 75 goals, and Logan McDonald, 51, led Sydney's forward line this year, while Hayden McLean kicked 16 goals in 12 games as a third forward in Amadi's absence.
The big, big news there is, of course, his interest in joining Carlton.
We're in the navy blue in 2027 and beyond, but of course, as we've spoken about in previous bits of content, the big lure for Amadi has been the length of deal, which has been five years.
Reportedly at big money and the, I guess, discrepancy, the difference in money between us and Sydney is around about $200,000 per season.
And the reported figure is anywhere between $800,000 to say $900,000.
I'd like to know your thoughts first and foremost with regards to that, the length of the deal and the, I guess, the salary behind it.
the fact that it is under $1 million reportedly, I can stomach it a little bit more compared to if it was over $1 million, which is completely overs.
But I do understand the market in terms of attracting a free agent from a different team, you do need to pay overs.
That is just the nature of the beast.
They paid big overs for him, but it tends to kind of always be the way when there isn't really an oversaturation of key position talent on the market, you need to pay overs in order to attract that player.
So it kind of just goes hand in hand with being a free agent, but also, you know, I guess the number of key position players on the market available at any given point in time.
So that's kind of where things lie.
It looks as though he is joining us The big question also is how he fits into our lineup.
And it has been reported on AFL.com.au and Kel Toomey, who is, I guess, one of the more reputable news breakers when it comes to all things news around the free agency trade and draft period.
It says, headlined, Make Me Blue, Swans goal kicker set to join Carlton as free agent.
Joel Amati wants to move to Carlton during this offseason.
And just reading here, the tweet from Kel Toomey himself says, Joel Amati has his exit meeting tomorrow at the Swans.
He wants to join the Blues as an unrestricted free agent.
And the article, let's just read it out, says there's been a major development at Sydney with Joel Amati set to join Carlton next month.
Amati is a free agent out of contract at the Swans and has been weighing up major interest from the Blues all season.
The 26-year-old played 15 senior games this year but was overlooked for last weekend's prelim final loss to Friot.
The key forward kicked 42 goals in 25 games as the Swans made the grand final in 2024, but has managed just 23 games since then due to a series of injuries and a suspension.
Charlie Curnow, 75 goals, and Logan McDonald, 51, led Sydney's forward line this year, while Hayden McLean kicked 16 goals in 12 games as a third forward in Amadi's absence.
The big, big news there is, of course, his interest in joining Carlton.
We're in the navy blue in 2027 and beyond, but of course, as we've spoken about in previous bits of content, the big lure for Amadi has been the length of deal, which has been five years.
Reportedly at big money and the, I guess, discrepancy, the difference in money between us and Sydney is around about $200,000 per season.
And the reported figure is anywhere between $800,000 to say $900,000.
I'd like to know your thoughts first and foremost with regards to that, the length of the deal and the, I guess, the salary behind it.
the fact that it is under $1 million reportedly, I can stomach it a little bit more compared to if it was over $1 million, which is completely overs.
But I do understand the market in terms of attracting a free agent from a different team, you do need to pay overs.
That is just the nature of the beast.
They paid big overs for him, but it tends to kind of always be the way when there isn't really an oversaturation of key position talent on the market, you need to pay overs in order to attract that player.
So it kind of just goes hand in hand with being a free agent, but also, you know, I guess the number of key position players on the market available at any given point in time.
So that's kind of where things lie.
It looks as though he is joining us The big question also is how he fits into our lineup.
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