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.
6. Fremantle
Kysaiah Pickett
The links Kysaiah Pickett has to the Dockers make it incumbent for the Western Australian club to explore a potential trade despite the star Demon's contract status.
It should be known that Melbourne president Brad Green wouldn't entertain a deal for the contracted star forward unless "three first-round picks" were involved.
Nevertheless, Fremantle will be keeping a close eye on Pickett due to his desires to head west and join good friends Quinton Narkle, Shai Bolton and Michael Walters, as well as former Demon Luke Jackson.
The Dockers gave up two first-round selections to lure Bolton and hold, currently, a stock standard array of picks, with a third-round from Richmond on top of their original deck.
However, it should be noted that as of the 2025 draft and trade period, clubs will be able to exchange selections two years in advance, meaning 2027 picks will be on the table.
