There are fresh concerns for emerging star Harley Reid’s future at West Coast.

As the struggling Eagles attempt to climb their way out of their past few years of misery, Reid (the former No.1 draft pick who has been dubbed as a generational player) is a key piece to the club’s rebuild and vital to its future.

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But whether he stays or returns to his home state of Victoria, remains to be seen, with speculation already rife that he will pack his bags when his contract expires, if not before then.

The 19-year old is contracted until the end of 2026, and has already put off talks with the club this year to have that arrangement extended.

Meanwhile, reports have emerged that Victorian clubs are circling with massive offers (around $2 million a season) on the table.

Oscar Allen, the 26-year-old captain of the Eagles, is also under the microscope after his secret meeting with Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell has become public.

And with all that happening — and new suggestions that the Allen camp is not happy with West Coast — there are suddenly grave fears for Reid’s tenure at the Eagles.

“When you’re concerned about keeping a Harley Reid — and we’ve all been speaking about that — how is (Allen) going to sell the message as the skipper and say, ‘Oh, you should stay, mate, when the argument turning around is, ‘Well, you’re meeting with other people as well’,” Dale Thomas said on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters.

Hawthorn champion Luke Hodge agreed.

“That’s the hardest thing. As a captain, you’ve got to sit down there and say to your teammates, ‘What we’re doing here is to benefit us in the future. How are we going to grow and build something to be the next premiership team at West Coast?’,” Hodge said.

“That loses all strength when all of a sudden you’re meeting with an opposition coach because then a player like a Harley Reid will be like, ‘You can’t tell me to be selfless if you’re not doing the same thing. You won’t even be here next year’.

Cornes said it was an excellent point.

“I think West Coast are a mess,” Cornes said.

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“I can tell you that the Allen camp feel aggrieved by the way he’s been handled in this situation.

“Oscar Allen has wanted to stay at the football club for a while. He’s had his injury concerns. He felt like maybe he was a fair way down the path of agreeing to stay.

“But then he got injured ... and maybe that deal was rescinded and since then, Sam Mitchell’s clearly got word of that or Hawthorn got word of that through the Allen camp and that’s where they have sensed a vulnerability. You can’t blame them for doing it.”

Hodge argued “something” had to have happened at the Eagles for Allen to have decided to sit down with a rival coach so early in the season.

“It happened with Barrass. He obviously wasn’t happy with the off-field, with how he was treated,” the four-time premiership player said.

“I’d be more looking at West Coast and saying ‘what am I not doing right, the fact that I’ve lost a senior person in Barrass and now our captain has gone and spoken to an opposition coach’. I’d be looking internally at what can we do better.”