Blues won't budge on Yarran to Tigers dealNathan Schmook
afl.com.au
October 21, 2015 1:57 PMCARLTON and Richmond are preparing to hold talks over Chris Yarran on Wednesday afternoon, with the Blues confident he wouldn't sit out of football for 12 months if a deal couldn't be done to send him to Punt Road.
There were suggestions on Wednesday that Yarran would not honour the last year of his contract if he were not traded to the Tigers, eventually moving to the club as a free agent ahead of the 2017 season.
Carlton list manager Steven Silvagni, who said he had not spoken to Yarran recently, said he hoped a deal could be done to fulfil the 24-year-old's request as soon as this afternoon.
However, the club was firm on its request for a first-round pick from Richmond, having knocked back the Tigers' offer of pick No.19 on Tuesday afternoon.
He said it needed to be understood that Yarran was contracted to Carlton for 2016 and "if we can't broker a deal then he's a required player … I wouldn't have thought he wouldn't play".
"We're due to talk with the Tigers at some stage today and we'll try and broker a deal with them," Silvagni said on Wednesday.
"We need to talk through it. We'd hope it could be done today, but we'll see what happens.
"I've always said we'd like a first round pick, so that's what it is. At the moment they hold pick No.12."
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