Pioli Says Gonzalez Didn’t Request A Trade

BasX · Mar 26, 2009

As conflicting impressions emerge regarding the question of whether tight end Tony Gonzalez wants to be traded by the Chiefs, G.M. Scott Pioli said Wednesday that the perennial Pro Bowler hasn’t asked to be moved.

“He has not indicated to me that he wants to be traded,” Pioli said, according to Adam Teicher of the Kansas City Star. “I don’t want to get into any other specifics of the conversations because those are conversations that will stay between players and [coach Todd Haley] and players and myself. They were good conversations, positive conversations, healthy conversations.”

Earlier this week, owner Clark Hunt suggested that Gonzalez wants to stay. Gonzalez said in response that he’s “going with the flow.”

But an AP report, quoting an unnamed source close to Gonzalez, made it clear that Gonzalez still wants out.

Gonzalez tried to finagle a trade during the 2008 season, and he reportedly was miffed when former G.M. Carl Peterson failed to make it happen.

This time around, the AP source says that other teams are interested in Gonzalez. If that’s the case (and setting aside for now the possibility that tampering has occurred), none of those teams have launched trade discussions.

“I’ve not made or fielded any call regarding Tony Gonzalez,” Pioli told the Star.

In our view, if Gonzalez wants to be traded he needs to rely on something other than unnamed sources close to him, or off-the-record communications with other teams that might eventually call the Chiefs and make an offer. Gonzalez apparently prefers creating the impression that, if he’s traded, it happened because the team wanted him out of town – not because the player wanted to leave.
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