Benni McCarthy has insisted he has not had any formal talks with Mamelodi Sundowns after it was reported he had met Sporting Director Flemming Berg.
McCarthy is currently a free agent after leaving Manchester United at the end of last season when his contract expired.
There had been reports in local media that McCarthy had met Berg in Europe to speak about potentially taking over at Masandawana, but McCarthy has dismissed those claims, saying there were no formal talks, he just merely bumped into Berg.
“It was a bump into each other at the airport and that basically was it,” McCarthy, who works as ambassador for the Carling Black Label Cup, told journalists on Tuesday.
“We recognised each other and that was it. We just spoke of a European football chat. Flemming just explained the time he worked at Chelsea as one of the international scouts, when he was based in Portugal, and it was at the same time I was playing at Porto – we basically just touched on that.
“Talked about a lot of football, modern-day football, South African football and that was it. It never came up where there was insinuating from his side or from my side that there could be a collaboration of joining the club that he was working for.
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“It was just an honest, a normal chat cause I think they had made a decision with the coaches that they have and they’re doing well.
“So, I don’t see why I should go and interfere there. Just because I’m no more at a club, doesn’t make me available to join.
“And like I said I want a challenge; I want the right project for me and if it concurs with the club that is interested, then those are the challenges that I want.
“I won’t just go into any job just because I want to coach, I’m not that desperate, so I’m enjoying my time with family and I’m enjoying just going to watch different football clubs, visit and speak to different coaches, expanding my knowledge of coaching and what coach I want to be and how I can improve myself as the football is changing.
“And that’s what it was. There was nothing, nothing formal about me meeting any South African club.”
