Sydney Swans Head of List Strategy and Player Personnel Chris Keane spoke to media in Melbourne today as the 2025 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period commenced. The official trade period concludes on October 15th.

Chris Keane on Charlie Curnow:

Clearly we have some interest in Charlie joining the football club but we are respectful of the fact that he is contracted for another 4 years so we will have those conversations with Carlton at the right time and privately.

Talks with Carlton have been pretty brief, we are pretty early, there's a bit of water to go under the bridge and we will work over that in the next week and a half.

We will be able to put forward what we think is a suitable offer, at the right time, again we will be having those conversations behind closed doors but whenever you are looking at a trade you are looking at what your opposition might want, you are trying to satisfy them as well as us so we will work through that as best we can.

The complex part of this is all of our players are contracted and are happy to be in Sydney so we will have to work through that at the right time.

Chris Keane on Malcolm Rosas Jnr (Gold Coast) and Jai Serong (Hawthorn) who have said they would like to be traded to Sydney:

It's great for our footy club first and foremost that both of those players have alluded to want to come we still have to get the deal done. We have had good conversations with the Gold Coast and we will chat to the Hawks in the coming days.

On QBE Swans Academy players in the upcoming AFL Draft:

It's a credit to our Academy that five of them were able to represent the Allies through the U18 Championships and have performed strongly at the combine. In terms of where they sit, I guess the price point is with our opposition, our job is to put them in order and rank them with the rest of the kids in the country and react accordingly.