Jordaan denies Safa pays Bax R1-million a month Eric to look at Africa for fresh new blood

CAPE Town City will look outside of the club rather than within for new first team players next season, with coach Eric Tinkler admitting they are scouring Africa for new recruits.

Tinkler says the side need to add quality to their squad rather than quantity.

He believes a number of strategic signs will add healthy competition‚ and he has dismissed the notion of dipping into their MultiChoice Diski Challenge (MDC) team to find them.

While Tinkler would not discuss who would be leaving the squad at the end of the season‚ they do already have five foreigners on their books. — TMG SOUTH African Football Association president Danny Jordaan has disputed reports that new Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter will be earning R1-million a month.

Briefing parliament’s sports and recreation portfolio committee yesterday‚ Jordaan also disputed allegations that Baxter had demanded that his son‚ Lee‚ should be appointed as the national team’s goalkeeper coach.

“Did Baxter make a demand that [his son must be a goalkeeper coach]? No ... Is Baxter getting R1-million a month? No. Is Baxter getting more than Shakes Mashaba? No‚” he replied.

Baxter was announced as the new Bafana Bafana coach earlier this month. He takes over from Mashaba, who was fired in December last year.

Mashaba has taken his dismissal to court and his case has not yet been finalised.

In the briefing, both Jordaan and Safa CEO Dennis Mumble flatly refused to give the exact amount paid to Baxter despite numerous pleas from DA MP Tsepo Mhlongo.

“We have not published any salaries of any of our staff‚ including the former coach.

“What you read in the papers ... they are throwing around figures that have no basis in reality‚” said Mumble. He said Baxter’s salary was a contractual matter and the two parties had signed a confidentiality clause.

Jordaan said MPs who wanted to view Baxter’s salary could visit Safa House and sign a non-disclosure agreement before seeing the new coach’s package.

The two were responding to Mhlongo, who said Mashaba’s salary was already known to the public.

“[In their presentation Safa is] talking about transparency and accountability and I fail to understand when we ask about the present national coach‚ that you don’t get actual figures‚” said Mhlongo.

He said he understood the clause but they still needed to know the actual salary of the new coach.

Jordaan also flatly declined to answer questions around Mashaba’s departure‚ saying he could only brief either the chair or the committee during a closed meeting. “But I think there are other issues that we don’t want to talk about but we can brief you privately on the kind of problem that arose.

“You always have to look at your players and the best interest of your players and ... what issues they have.”

He said Safa took time to appoint a new coach because the top three coaches it had approached were all employed and had to serve notice with their clubs. — TMG Digital