{"id":273370,"date":"2025-08-26T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273370"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:28:18","slug":"saints-land-tom-de-koning-on-an-eight-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273370","title":{"rendered":"Saints land Tom De Koning on an eight year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom De Koning will join St Kilda on an eight-year mega-deal, in potentially the biggest contract ever signed by an AFL free agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Koning has been widely expected to leave Carlton due to a gap of around $700,000 a year between their best offer and the Saints\u2019 lucrative bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/afl\/st-kilda-land-tom-de-koning-on-eight-year-mega-deal-20250825-p5mpr0.html\">The Age reports<\/a>&nbsp;the Saints have upped their offer from seven to eight years, with De Koning accepting the deal ahead of his exit meeting at Blues HQ on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Koning has been widely expected to leave Carlton due to a gap of around $700,000 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":273371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,35],"tags":[993,17888,17889,8],"class_list":["post-273370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-st-kilda-football-club","tag-tom-de-koning","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273372,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273370\/revisions\/273372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}