DANIEL Wells is the latest North Melbourne player to re-sign with the club after agreeing to terms on a new two-year contract.

The silky midfielder ended speculation about his future yesterday, saying his manager and the club struck a deal tying him to Arden Street until the end of 2010.

"The club have been fantastic for me, not just with footy, but off-field as well, so I'm just repaying the faith," the 23-year-old said.

"The playing group is fantastic and a huge reason why I signed back up."

Football operations manager Donald McDonald said recently that talks had begun to have Wells "at the footy club for the next three or four years" and the West Australian would hopefully play out his career at the Kangaroos.

Drew Petrie has signed a new three-year deal and chief executive Eugene Arocca said yesterday "a mix of two and three-year deals" were being negotiated with players.

The club has also signed new deals with ruckman Hamish McIntosh, defenders Michael Firrito and Daniel Pratt, midfielder Brady Rawlings and forward Corey Jones.

"You've got to respect the players' and managers' intentions and clubs have to look at the various commercial realities of long-term deals," Arocca said when asked about Wells' two-year deal.

"This was a relatively short discussion, it was really a question of when Daniel was ready to sit down and talk and as soon as that happened, it was pretty much done and dusted in two weeks.

"Daniel's a young man who wants to see where he is in two years' time, but we're pretty confident he would want to be part of this club long term."

Arocca said there was "three or four" more players still expected to re-sign.

"We're confident that by the end of '08, we would have signed most of the list that remains unsigned at this stage," he said.

Captain Adam Simpson said Wells' new deal was another positive step for the club after last year's decision to reject the AFL's Gold Coast relocation package.