Nick Blakey has\u00a0indicated\u00a0to associates he wants to leave the Sydney Swans at the end of the season after his relationship with the club deteriorated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old\u00a0remains\u00a0under club-imposed suspension with four teammates after the group breached the Swans\u2019 behavioural standards last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blakey still has five years\u00a0remaining\u00a0on his contract, which is worth more than $1 million a year, meaning any attempt to secure a trade would need to overcome significant hurdles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defender had already considered leaving Sydney once before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Age reported on Thursday<\/a> that Blakey explored a move to Gold Coast at the end of last season as his girlfriend, Olympic runner Ella Connolly, prepared to relocate to Queensland ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blakey\u00a0ultimately remained\u00a0with the Swans.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, three competition sources who were not authorised to speak publicly to The Age said the relationship between the player and club had since deteriorated.\u00a0<\/p>\n The\u00a0sources\u00a0said Blakey was angry with how the Swans handled the events at the Pullman East Melbourne, while the club was unhappy with his involvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n The club suspension followed allegations the players partied into the early hours and brought women back to the team hotel after Sydney\u2019s round 23 match against Essendon.\u00a0<\/p>\n That disciplinary action is separate from the Victoria Police investigation into sexual assault allegations involving three women at the hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n No police charges have been laid.\u00a0<\/p>\n News24.com.au is not suggesting any criminal wrongdoing by any of the players.\u00a0<\/p>\n Should Blakey formally request a trade, the Swans would have to decide whether to\u00a0facilitate\u00a0a move while the police investigation\u00a0remains\u00a0unresolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n Victoria Police said on Wednesday that another update on the investigation was not expected for about eight weeks, placing the next update in late October.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 2026 AFL Trade Period will run from Monday, October 5 to Wednesday, October 14.<\/p>\n Detectives from the Sexual Crimes Squad travelled to Sydney\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0to speak to four people connected to the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police have also spoken to three men believed to have been inside the hotel room when the alleged incident occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n Those men are being treated solely as witnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said they believe they have\u00a0identified\u00a0everyone who was inside the room and are not looking for anyone further.\u00a0<\/p>\n Riley Bice, another of the five suspended Swans players, has been cleared of any criminal conduct and is now being treated as a potential witness.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chad Warner, Isaac Heeney, James\u00a0Jordon\u00a0and Blakey remain under police investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read related topics:Sport<\/a>Sydney Swans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Blakey has\u00a0indicated\u00a0to associates he wants to leave the Sydney Swans at the end of the season after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77,12327,247,5009],"class_list":["post-87219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-afl","tag-nick-blakey","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-swans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}