GREATER Western Sydney won't be rushed into tabling an offer to Lance Franklin.

At the weekend, Franklin's manager Liam Pickering said the superstar was likely to remain at Hawthorn, as he had only received an offer from his current club.

That raised question marks over whether GWS needed to quickly make good on reports of an offer in the vicinity of $10-12 million over five or six years for the 26-year-old.

But Giants chief executive David Matthews said the club feels no pressure to come up with a firm offer and is currently assessing how its salary cap will look in the coming years.

"We said we'd get to about this stage of the year and say 'what are the needs, how does the salary cap play out for us for the next few years'," Matthews told AFL.com.au on Wednesday.

"There's a lot of modelling that needs to be done on the make-up of your list, so that work's being done at the moment."

Asked if an offer to Franklin would be coming sooner rather than later, Matthews said: "We've got no set time limits.

"We just continue to monitor the situation with all these players, as a number of clubs I'm sure are doing."

GWS list manager Steve Silvagni is currently in discussions with a range of player managers as he attempts to attract some desperately needed experience to the club.

While many believe an offer to Franklin is only a matter of when, not if, Silvagni said GWS is content to adhere to his stated aim of putting off talks until the end of the season.

"Obviously I'm speaking to Liam like most clubs in relation to all players he's got on his books, but Buddy has said publicly that no decision is going to be made until the end of the year," Silvagni said.

"That's where it sits at the minute. He doesn't want to talk and that's what it is.

"I don't know Buddy personally, but he seems as though he knows what he wants to do and how he wants to handle it."

Silvagni knows a player of Franklin's stature would provide an enormous benefit as the fledgling Giants try to forge an identity in western Sydney.

Despite the enormous sums of money being mooted, however, Silvagni says tempting players to change clubs is not easy.

"It's very, very difficult to move players," he said.

"I hate talking about players at other clubs, to be honest, because they're their players.

"It's tough to talk about, but obviously we speak to player managers every day about particular players."

Besides Franklin, a ruckman remains a huge priority for the Giants, with Essendon's Tom Bellchambers the name mentioned most often of late.

But the net will be cast wide, with Matthews admitting "any of the ruckmen that are out of contract are coming into calculations".

Still winless heading into round 16, Silvagni is very content with the state of the club's list, but promises the Giants will be major players when the trading period comes at year's end.

"Certainly we're in the market for mature bodies," he said.

"Our whole philosophy for the first couple of years was to get the best talent through the door and then look at what we actually need.

"Obviously (Chad) Cornes, (Dean) Brogan and (Phil) Davis not being out there has really hurt us this year, plus Jon Patton with a bigger type of body.

"We understand we need to add to our list in terms of getting our demographics in age to the right level.

"You look at what positions you've got covered and we're obviously strong in some areas and some areas we need some improvement.

"We go into our third draft at the end of the year and we'll pick what we need to pick and come trade week, I'm sure we're going to be pretty active in that particular period."