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Keet - 'I don't want to stay in South Africa'

Cape Town - Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Darren Keet has reiterated that he is desperate to leave South Africa but has revealed that no offers have been made for his services.

Keet, whose contract with Bidvest Wits expired at the end of last month, has been linked with a move to Kaizer Chiefs, but the 29-year-old says he is not interested in a move to Naturena and is adamant about playing in Europe.

"Well, no one has given me an offer so it's easy to say that this team wants me and that team wants me, but as long as I don't have an offer then you know nothing else matters," Keet tells KickOff.

"So at the end of the day you can't tell anyone come to me or [they] wanted me because no one presented me with anything so, at the moment I'm just waiting to see what offers I can get out of Europe.

"I don't want to stay in South Africa, I want to go outside of South Africa with my wife and my son and... ja just go back to Europe or anywhere really but we just want to go back outside South Africa again. So ja we don't want to stay in South Africa now, or play for a team in South Africa at this moment. Maybe.. you never know in the future, but not right now."

And Keet says he has not received any offers yet, despite his agent Vasili Barbis being quoted as saying that he was approached by a club in Portugal.

"No, I haven't got anything yet, still waiting to see what's going to happen. No teams yet, no teams at all. Still waiting to see what the agent is going to bring me so, I'm not in a rush I'm just enjoying my holiday in Cape Town now. We will wait and see what happens in the next few weeks or something.

"No, no, no I don't want to stay in the PSL... that's not going to happen, that's not my option at the moment," said Keet.

"I have made a decision to try and get my family out of South Africa. Obviously being in Europe is closer to my wife's family, and then my brother is also in America. My agent is speaking to a few clubs and stuff but nothing is serious, there's been no offers that's been made or anything about that so... we haven't exactly got anything more than that at the moment."

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