Carlton coach Michael Voss has dismissed reports Charlie Curnow is considering leaving the club, saying the star forward will end his career at the Blues.

Contracted until the end of 2029, Curnow is understood to have spoken to the club about the possibility of a move to the Gold Coast for lifestyle reasons to play for the Suns.

The dual Coleman medallist has been below his best recently, going four straight games without a goal before he kicked three in Carlton’s win against Melbourne last Saturday night.

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After reports emerged on Tuesday night, Voss attempted to shut down the “speculation” ahead of the Blues’ clash with Hawthorn on Thursday night.

“Charlie’s a Carlton man and he’ll stay a Carlton man,” Voss said on Wednesday.

“I’m not sure how much more emphatic I need to be on that. Charlie’s a very important person to us, and he’ll play out his career here. He’s a Carlton person and he’ll stay one.”

Voss denied he had chatted to Curnow about any possibility of moving to another club.

Curnow is “not entirely happy” at the Blues, according to 7NEWS Melbourne’s Mitch Cleary, who added a decision on Voss’s own future could “create more fallout” among the playing group.

“I appreciate these times of the year, and when you’re not going so well, there will always be some speculation on your players, but it probably ends there for us,” Voss said.

Curnow has kicked 311 games in 148 games for Carlton since debuting in 2016.

Serious knee injuries derailed his career from 2019 to the end of 2021, but he returned superbly with 64 goals in 2022 and a career-high 81 in the 2023 season when the Blues made a preliminary final.

Gold Coast would be unlikely to be able to accommodate Curnow in a trade and are also already stacked with tall forward talent.

“The Blues have been completely adamant that he’s not going anywhere and told him that,” Caroline Wilson said on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters.

“Gold Coast clearly need all their (draft) points for their academy picks, they’ve got a bursting salary cap and they’ve got Ben King, in fact they’ve got three big forwards.

“It seems unlikely to me they could get a deal done. They haven’t spoken to Charlie Curnow.”

Rumours surrounding Curnow come ahead of a huge off-field period for Carlton.

The Blues have slumped to 7-11, after starting the season with ambitions of winning their first premiership since 1995.

Graham Wright will soon take over as chief executive from Brian Cook, with major change expected to happen in the off-season.

Voss is also no guarantee to coach next season, despite being contracted for another year.

“There’s no change in the way we’re operating,” Voss said.

“Maybe the names at the desk have changed because Brian moves out and Graham comes in.

“But in terms of how we how we go about our list management strategy and our build, everyone will have their input at the right time.

“There’s no (point) predicting what happens next, it’s about what we need to be able to do over the next four or five weeks.”

In a boost for Carlton, Voss confirmed star forward Harry McKay will return to face the Hawks after missing the last eight weeks because of a knee injury.

The Blues will enter the match as outsiders, but will be determined to send club hero Sam Docherty out as a winner in his final game before retirement.

- with 7NEWS