Sydney Swans list boss Chris Keane has reinforced the club’s stance on Nick Blakey following reports he is meeting with rival clubs about a potential trade.

Blakey is contracted for another five years at the Swans but has been meeting with clubs, most notably Geelong.

Geelong, however, will find a trade even more difficult after sending its pick 14 to St Kilda for Rowan Marshall.

The Cats will receive a 2028 third-round pick in return from the Saints.

Blakey, along with Isaac Heeney, James Jordon, Chad Warner and Riley Bice, was suspended from the Swans’ finals series for breaching club standards.

Heeney, Warner, Jordon and Blakey are separately under investigation for an alleged sexual assault incident on the same morning in August at the Pullman Hotel in Melbourne.

Keane is speaking to Blakey’s manager Robbie D’Rozario but says the club has no intent to trade the dashing defender.

“I mean, clearly, there’s been some speculation around Nick over the past couple of weeks, it’s safe to say,” Keane told Trade Radio.

“Look, we’re working through all of that with his management group at the moment but, as I said, Monday from our perspective he’s contracted and a significant player for our footy club and that hasn’t changed.”

Keane says the Swans only discovered Blakey’s meetings with rival clubs through the media.

“It’s actually not something we were made aware of outside what has been reported online,” he said.

“I think we do understand the current landscape in regards to players exploring opportunities and how that’s probably shifted over the last few years in particular.

“But ultimately he’s contracted at five more years at our footy club for a reason, we saw last year when that’s the case, ultimately the clubs have the final say.”