ADELAIDE football operations manager Phil Harper says the club has already spoken to Taylor Walker's management with the view of re-signing the forward early next year.

Walker is one of several emerging Crows, including 2009 club champion Bernie Vince and NAB AFL Rising Star runner-up Andy Otten, to fall out of contract at the end of next season.

Like Gold Coast last year, Greater Western Sydney will have access to up to 16 uncontracted players - one from each club with the exception of the Suns - ahead of its entry into the AFL in 2012. But in an added bonus, it will have two windows of opportunity rather than one to woo and sign players.

Should the Giants not secure the full complement of players for their inaugural season, they can have another crack for 2013.

Walker, from Broken Hill, has been linked to a return to his home state but Harper said nearly every player on an AFL list could be targeted by the Giants.

"It makes it more difficult with the concessions for GWS because basically every player on your list will come out of contract in that two-year period, but what can you do? Unless you go and start trying to re-sign players, who are contracted for another year or another two years," Harper told afl.com.au.

"Taylor will be vulnerable, but going on last year … I know Nathan Bock ended up going but he was one of about 13 players who were going to the Gold Coast, and I'd say Taylor will be one of another 13 [who the media will speculate] is going to GWS."

Walker has played 32 games for Adelaide since joining the club through the NSW scholarship program.

He fits the criteria of GWS, which has indicated it will chase players likely to peak in five years' time, and Harper said the club was keen to sort out a new deal for the 20-year-old as soon as possible.

"We've already spoken to Taylor's management and the managers of quite a few other players with the view to start talking about re-signing [them] come February [or] March next year," Harper said.

"We'll start talking to them and then it's up to the player and their management whether they do it then or wait. Normally, they want to wait a bit later, especially when we're dealing with a player on the rise as far as performance goes like Taylor is."

Last year the Crows re-signed power forward Kurt Tippett, who was high on Gold Coast's shopping list, but lost All-Australian centre half-back Bock to the Suns in September.

Harper said he was hopeful the direction of the side would convince Walker and Adelaide's other uncontracted players to stay at West Lakes.

"With Nathan and Kurt's situations we've learned that you put your best offer forward and sometimes it'll be good enough and other times it won't be," he said.

"Some people are going to be lured [by money] towards the end of their career, whereas some younger players perhaps might be keen to stay for the lure of team success.

"If GWS target younger players and are prepared to pay them truckloads of money - it's tempting for even the young guys because it could set them up for the rest of their life.

"It's a difficult situation that everyone's in. What you've got to do is just be really confident that based on your list and their performance, you're offering what is more than fair and reasonable."