GOLD Coast co-captain Steven May says he has no plans to leave the Suns in this year’s trade period.

May is out of contract at the end of next season but has been linked to interest from Collingwood.

But the key defender said he had no plans to “shop (himself) around” a year before his contract ends.

“No — that’s (interest from Collingwood is) just a rumour. I’m pretty lucky up here on the Gold Coast, out of the bubble, not seeing a lot of all those rumours,” May said on Fox Sports News’ AFL Tonight.

“I’m still a contracted player for next year and my focus is on trying to help this team turn around and lead this team and I am out of contract next year so no doubt you guys will be asking the same questions soon. But at this stage, I’m committed to the Suns.

“No I don’t think as captain you’d be trying to shop yourself around, if you like, this year. But if the club — crazier things have happened, clubs have traded players and captains, so I don’t think the club wants to trade me — but if they did, that would be a conversation we’d have to have.”

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May said he’d asked his manager whether there had been any approaches for his services, but had dismissed them as rumours.

“No (there haven’t been any approaches), I asked him, because I was hearing these rumours, so I wanted to know what was going on,” May said.

“And he just told me they were rumours — he hadn’t had any chats yet. I don’t know if he was telling the truth or not but he’s just looking after me and my job at the moment in leading this time.

“I’m sure there’ll be a time when he does tell me if anyone has approached him — because like I said before, it is only rumours and no one has actually contacted me.”

After watching ex-teammate Dion Prestia win a premiership with Richmond, May said he had envied his friend’s experience.

“Not so much my own future, I love it here on the Gold Coast, it’s a great place to live and we have a really great club set up here,” he said.

“But I know, I went to the grand final last year and watched my best mate Dion Prestia win a flag and there was envy but I was also happy for him because I know how much success meant to him.

“And for him to do it in his first year (was) probably a fluke really but the Tigers are rolling now and he looks destined for more success. But there was a little bit of me thinking ‘oh I wish I was our there’ — but at the end of the day I was happy for a mate to live out his dream.”

Suns captain Steven May. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt)

Co-captain Tom Lynch’s future continues to be the centre of speculation, with the star forward potentially destined to return to Victoria as a free agent at the end of the season.

Earlier on Wednesday, a frank Stuart Dew said the chances of Lynch staying on the Gold Coast were “not looking great.”

May said he was still optimistic Lynch would hang around.

“I have that glimmer of hope that he’ll still be here,” he said.

“He just had surgery yesterday but I suppose when it does get to this time of the year and he hasn’t re-signed, you sort of think maybe he’s going.

“But he certainly hasn’t told us that yet so I’m still optimistic he’ll stay.”

May said he believed both the Suns and Lynch would like to have the latter’s future established sooner rather than later.

Suns co-captains Tom Lynch and Steven May. Picture: Glenn Hampson

“Yeah (we would) and I think Tom would as well. He’s been a fantastic servant for the club,” he said.

“He’s testing out free agency at the moment and he does care about this footy club, if he does leave it’s to pursue other opportunities. But that would only help us and him and … get trades set up or attack the draft when we might need a key forward.

“So sooner rather than later would be great but he is still recovering from knee surgery, so I don’t expect an answer from him right now.”

May said the Suns’ poor form this year — the club has lost 11 games in a row and recorded just three wins so far — didn’t help their cause in regards to retaining Lynch.

“He said at the start of the year he wants to see how we go and see if we can start turning it around and we’ve had a new coach so that was always going to be hard, and a really tough first half of the season in terms of our schedule,” May said.

“But we’ve shown glimpses and maybe he wants to see a bit more than that, but like I said, he still hasn’t made a decision and maybe he can believe the way we’re heading.

“But if you look at wins and losses, no, it doesn’t look great.”

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