If his player agent is even half decent, he will be asking Melb to tear up the existing contract and offer up something close to the Crows offer. Either, you cough up a shitload of extra cash to keep him happy, or you hold him to his contract and he earns 400 or 500K less than he could have next year - that's gonna motivate him to play well!
Either way, that's gotta hurt more!
lol you really think a player isn’t gonna perform to the best of there abilities 2 years out from free agency and coming into his prime?