Ah, I think Jake holds the cards unfortunately. He is contracted to the Dogs for next year. He can only be traded to a club if he agrees to it. So the club would have to convince him to move to a club which he does not nominate.
The club should have keep this in house until trade week and then floated the options to clubs. Get a good deal done then sell it to Jake.
That sounds a lot like doing exactly what we're doing now, but with a quarter of the time to get it done?