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Australian basketball star Andrew Bogut has called for the AFL to have an open trade market.

Andrew Bogut says the AFL should adopt an open trade market if it's serious about player movement.

The Australian basketball star is a keen AFL follower who reckons the AFL's trade period is frustrating for fans.

"If the AFL players, the PA (players' association) and the AFL are serious about having trades, it should just be open market," Bogut told reporters in Adelaide on Thursday.

"So if you want to be traded, no worries. You're not going to where you want to go though, you might end up somewhere you don't want to go or wherever your best value is at.

"Then I think it's fair for both parties."

Bogut played with five NBA clubs before returning to Australia to join the Sydney Kings for the current NBL season.

"It seems like every (AFL) player gets homesick when they want to leave a club," he said.

"It's frustrating as a fan."

Bogut, an Essendon supporter, said he sympathised with the Gold Coast Suns who lost their two co-captains and other players in the AFL trade period which closed on Wednesday.

"I'm a Bomber fan but I feel for the Gold Coast Suns, they develop their talent and they just leave and have to redevelop it again and they're back at square one," he said.