Malthouse: Kurt's not worth $1m

Carlton coach Mick Malthouse says the asking price for Kurt Tippett is too high. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun

CARLTON coach Michael Malthouse has warned clubs Kurt Tippett is worth nowhere near the $1 million that has been linked to his signature.

Malthouse, who spoke to Port Adelaide captain Warren Tredrea on Adelaide radio station Triple M this morning, said Carlton was not in a position to bid for Tippett and let him slide, much like it did ex-Pies Travis Cloke and Chris Dawes in the trade period.

The right price for Tippett was more likely to be $500,000 a season. That was a sharp devaluation from the $700,000 he was paid at Adelaide and the even greater sum he was expected to collect at Sydney before the deal with the Swans fell through as the AFL caught wind of irregularities in his previous contract with the Crows and began an inquiry.

``He wouldn't be worth that ($1 million),'' Malthouse said. ``He's not worth that. If he's worth half of that I think that's about the right amount of money. I say half of that but that's a lot of money. He's a good footballer. But, to my way of thinking, a good footballer has to be good year-in, year-out and the difference between a good player and a very good footballer is on the big stage. You must be able to play on the big stage on a regular basis against the great players.''

Malthouse had an eye on key forwards in the trade period, in particular Dawes and Cloke, with whom he had worked at Collingwood.

Dawes ended up at Melbourne while Cloke stayed with Collingwood as Carlton made no major moves in the player exchange window.

Malthouse said Carlton would have had to make major moves to accommodate the signing of either of the aforementioned or Tippett and suspected the Blues now were out of the picture to gain Tippett through the draft.

``You've got to have the capacity in your salary cap,'' Malthouse said on Triple M radio yesterday morning. ``If your salary cap is up the top end, and you've got to get a Cloke in or Dawes in, something's got to move. And you've got to move those before you can bring those in. It's the same with Tippett.

``It's too late to move players now so we're out of that action.''

Malthouse, who coached West Coast to flags in 1992 and 1994 and Collingwood to a premiership in 2010, is not the first to question Tippett's value.

Tippett widely was regarded to have been overpaid in his last contract with Adelaide as the club sought to ward off the lucrative offer from the Gold Coast to have him in its first AFL side and Sunday Mail columnist Chris McDermott said he had not delivered on his expensive price tag.

At an estimated $700,000, he was Adelaide's highest-paid player.

But even though Tippett closed last season with a fine contribution for Adelaide against Hawthorn, there was growing sentiment Taylor Walker was becoming the club's most important forward.

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