Port Adelaide coach Josh Carr reckons he's already been in the ear of in-demand Zak Butters enough.
For Carr, there's not much else he can say to convince the man with the AFL's most sought-after signature to remain at Port beyond this season.
"I have been in his ear enough, I reckon. I don't think he needs me in his ear at all," Carr told reporters on Friday.
Butters, who falls off-contract at season's end, will play his 150th AFL match when the Power host Carlton at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night.
The Victorian-born star will then return to Darley, northwest of Melbourne, over the club's bye the following weekend to discuss his future with family.
Butters is being chased by Victorian clubs, with the Western Bulldogs, Geelong and Hawthorn considered frontrunners should he decide to depart Port.
