Melbourne General Manager of Football Josh Mahoney has revealed the Dees would be willing to trade Dom Tyson, Dean Kent and Aaron Vandenberg in the right circumstances.

Tyson’s potential desire to find a new home comes from wanting the chance to play the role he was drafted for.

“Our discussions with Dom have been about opportunities to play in his prime position which is as an inside midfielder,” Mahoney told NAB AFL Trade Radio.

“It’s probably our strongest area and it’s forced him to play in some different roles.

“He’s looking for opportunities to play that role. We’re supportive of him to look for those opportunities and we’re comfortable if Dom decides he wants to stay at Melbourne, but also if an opportunity comes up we’ll look at that as well.”

As for Vandenberg, Mahoney said they want to keep him, but he may be on the move for family reasons.

“Aaron’s different as it’s been forced out of personal circumstances. His father died during the year and family wise, his mother is moving to Sydney and that created an opportunity for him to look at the Sydney Swans,” he said.

“He loves being at Melbourne and we love Aaron. It’s probably a situation that’s out of our control, he has a decision to make, but can’t stress enough that we want him to stay at Melbourne.”

Finally, Dean Kent has told the club he wishes to get to St Kilda and Mahoney said the club is open to getting something done there.

“Dean spoke to us at the end of the year and said he’d like to go to St Kilda. It’s been through lack of opportunities for Dean which has mainly been off the back of injuries,” he said.

“With St Kilda he has an opportunity to get a longer term deal and more opportunities to play so we’ll hopefully sit down with St Kilda and get a deal done during this period.”

The Dees have been strongly linked to North ruckman Braydon Preuss, but Mahoney said it’s far from being a done deal.

“He’s not locked in, but we need some support for Max. What’s he able to do pretty much by himself is extraordinary, but it gets harder and harder for Max every year and Braydon hasn’t been getting a game in the ruck, so like every club, we look at those sorts of players,” Mahoney said.

“He is an option, but he’s among a number of different options.”

Mahoney also confirmed the Dees will target Gold Coast defender Kade Kolodjashnij.

“He’s out of contract at Gold Coast and we’ve spoken to him. He’s the type of player we’re looking for,” he said.

“We’ve spoken to Gold Coast and hopefully that’s something we can get done during the trade period.

“We’ve done a thorough medical on Kade, he had some concussion issues this year, they found out what was going on there so we’re comfortable he’s over those issues.”