Raiders Take On Oilers : Exhibition: In today’s game, they will probably be without Townsend, who wants to renegotiate his contract.

Greg Townsend has run out of options.

He has tried asking for a contract renegotiation.

He has tried holding out.

He has tried asking for a trade.

He has tried threatening to make his holdout an annual affair.

But the Raiders haven’t budged. They have told their star defensive lineman that he has a contract and he won’t get a new one.

When the Raiders play the Houston Oilers today at the Coliseum in their exhibition finale, Townsend is not expected to be on hand.

But it is expected that he will report sometime next week, before the Raiders’ regular-season opener Sunday in Denver.

Neal Allen, Townsend’s agent, seemed to hint that would be the case when he talked about his alternatives.

“If they want this every year, it will happen every year,” Allen said. “He’ll hold out this long every single year he is under contract to the Raiders. I guarantee that.

“You can’t treat Greg like this. He is a Pro Bowl player and he should be treated as such.”

Allen said he asked the Raiders to trade Townsend to New York, Philadelphia or Atlanta, but they refused.

“I heard Dallas was interested, until they got Charles Haley (from the San Francisco 49ers earlier this week),” Allen said.

Steve Ortmayer, the Raiders’ director of football operations, says the team has never discussed trading Townsend.

“He has a contract,” Ortmayer said. “We expect him to honor it.”

That contract calls for the Townsend, 30, to receive $1.2 million in this, the second year of a five-year, $6.6-million deal.

Allen says he originally rejected that deal. Townsend then switched agents, employing Joshua Luchs, who persuaded Townsend to sign the contract.

“Greg outgrew that contract before the ink was dry,” Allen said.

Townsend subsequently switched back, leaving Luchs and rehiring Allen.

Thus, the stalemate.

While his teammates have been sweating themselves into shape, Townsend has been doing some sweating of his own, working to set up a Compton sports bar and grill that he plans to open the first Monday night of the season.

Allen, however, says that the Raiders have tried to sabotage Townsend’s venture by calling several banks he has been dealing with to tell them that the Raider lineman is a holdout.

“That is asinine,” Allen said. “I’ve never heard of that.

“I couldn’t imagine them doing that to anybody else. I will be speaking to my attorneys about it.”

Other sources, however, say the banks made the calls.

The Oilers know about holdouts.

Although they will take the field today unbeaten in the exhibition season at 4-0, they are still without cornerback Cris Dishman, and defensive linemen William Fuller and Sean Jones.

Dishman and Fuller are holdouts. Jones is officially retired, but Houston isn’t ruling out his eventual return.

The Raiders, 0-3, will be trying to avoid going winless in the exhibition season for only the second time. They were 0-4 in 1989.

“You’d like to have a win,” Coach Art Shell said. “You’d like to win them all. But the important thing is that the team plays well and we are injury-free.”

Jay Schroeder, already named the starting quarterback for the regular-season opener, will again split time with Todd Marinovich.

With running back Marcus Allen doubtful because of a bone bruise in his leg, Nick Bell will divide the ball-carrying with Eric Dickerson.