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Voss: Carlton won’t listen to offers for Curnow
Andrew Slevison • September 1st, 2025 10:37 am
Carlton coach Michael Voss has explained the situation surrounding Charlie Curnow.
The two-time Coleman Medallist’s name continues to swirl in trade circles with clubs like Sydney, Gold Coast and Geelong linked.
The reported interest came about because Curnow mentioned in his exit meeting that he was “open” to a trade.
But Voss insists that the star forward won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.
“‘Open’ was more the language used,” Voss said on SEN Breakfast when asked if Curnow called for a trade.
“Obviously from our position it was pretty clear, so we don’t feel like we’re in that position to want to go down that path.
“That position was well and truly communicated back to him and then from that point on we moved on to other topics, and talked about his year and how we can make him better and get back to that striking form he had only 12 months ago.”
Voss made it vehemently clear that the club will not answer the phone to listen to any offers for Curnow.
“No,” he said.
“Our position is pretty clear. It’s been stated - I don’t even know publicly whether we’ve said anything - but he’ll be at Carlton in 2026.
“Those discussions - if there are any others - we’ll continue to have behind closed doors.
“He’s a two-time Coleman Medallist, it could have been three, who has four years to run on a contract. We feel like he’s an incredibly important person to us.
“He’ll figure for us moving forward and hopefully he’s playing out the rest of his career here.”
Did Curnow reveal his issues or apparent disgruntlement with the club?
Voss says it was simply a conversation after a difficult season for all involved at the Blues.
“I don’t think it’s worthy of going into detail outside of that we’ve had a tough year and he’s had a challenging year,” Voss replied.
“If you look at the year he’s had we can sort of wash over it pretty quick and just look at what happened towards the end. He’s obviously had three surgeries over the course of this year - the first one happening in Round 17 last year, had ankle surgery and couldn’t get going pre-Christmas.
“Then he had to have his knee and that restricted his post-Christmas period as well. Came back on some good prep, not great prep… and he ended up playing 18 games but obviously never hit the highs that we would have loved.
“In some ways he was starting to get going and then he got hurt again. It’s just been a tough year and we’ve all felt that.
“We’re all pretty determined to change that.”
