As the Sydney Swans return to finals, most of the season was filled with doubt on whether they would return after a year fuelled with injury, setbacks and poor performances that had the Swans ruled out of any chance to return for another shot at glory.

An up-and-down year was the narrative for the Swans but the focus shifts to the business end of the season as Sydney looks to make a deep finals run.

Now with retirements looking to change the Swans' list demographic, who could be possible targets on their radar that could have them back to their dominating best?

Here are our five trade targets that the Swans could bring to the Harbour City.

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3. Ben McKay

After it was announced that the Swans were tracking Ben McKay, the Roos free agent could be the favourite to be picked up from anyone on this list.

McKay has been reported to be on the way out of North Melbourne, with it just being a question of where he lands.

McKay has been one of the few shining lights for the Kangaroos in 2023 with 12.1 disposals (career best), 4.2 spoils and 3.8 intercept marks (career best) per game.

If he was to move to a more organised defence in the Swans, his numbers could jump even higher as an intercept defender, which would also help in resolving the leak in scoring against the Swans have conceded.

As he will be a free agent, the cost of bringing him in will be rather cheap for Sydney and he will be a helping hand alongside Tom McCartin after the retirement of McCartin's brother, Paddy.