While players and coaches are gearing up for another campaign after a long pre-season, list managers have also been pulling strings before a ball has bounced almost a year out from the 2025 trade period.
While not a common occurrence, pre-season trade news has been a feature this year as star players Luke Davies-Uniacke, Matt Rowell, Oscar Allen and Tom De Koning have calls to make.
Reports have gone as far as to suggest Allen and Rowell have spoken to other clubs over the off-season, with club list managers getting their interest in early.
With this year's crop of off-contract names still home to a plethora of quality players, we've looked at who could be up for grabs and which clubs are positioned as potential landing spots.
With this list, we name the one player your club should be keeping a close eye on in 2025.
12. North Melbourne
Brayden Maynard
While the Roos are expected to see growth in 2025, their back six is still arguably the weakest in the league.
What a hard-nosed, premiership-winning defender could do to fix that...
Maynard has the experience and leadership qualities to drive the growth of North Melbourne's youngsters, while also having the quality to aid key defenders Charlie Comben, Aidan Corr and Griffin Logue.
Maynard is still only 28 years old too, meaning he'll provide more than just the serviceable two-year stint at the backend of his career.
Although Maynard has strongly suggested he'll remain a Pie, if the Roos can pull off a major coup for his talents it would perhaps be the landmark recruit that spurs them into finals contention.
