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.
3. Carlton
Sam De Koning
If you've got one, you might as well go for the second.
Carlton has been screaming to find Jacob Weitering some key defensive assistance and joining his brother Tom in the navy blue could be an offer he might not refuse.
De Koning is a premiership backman at Geelong but found himself out of the senior side late in 2024 through injury before being trialled in the ruck.
But the crash and bash of the role may not necessarily suit Sam, although it may suit his brother.
The Blues have experimented with Lewis Young, Caleb Marchbank, Mitch McGovern, Brodie Kemp, Sam Durdin and will begin assessing Nick Haynes' impact in the back half.
But the sureness of De Koning in defence would immediately straighten up Michael Voss' side, whilst his versatility adds another bow that most clubs can't match.
