Coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie, helmsman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, has denied media reports that former Black Stars striker, Charles Amoah, is on the club?s shopping list for the group stage of the CAF Champions League.

The ASK Kottingburnn (a third division side in Austria) player, has had little of playing time with his European club and has decided to revive his career back home in Ghana.

?If for anything at all, I think I have to look around me first and I think I have a lot of them,? coach Afranie said.

Among the players the ?coachhene? has pencilled down include William Thompson, Francis Kwaafo and Kenneth Ababio.

Also on the list is Okwawu?s ?darling boy? Ibrahim Issaka who although plagued with injuries, was one of the few additional names Kotoko submitted to CAF for the group stage.

Okwawu who have jealously guarded the players were reluctant to release him, even while injured.

Amoah, 28, shot to fame during the 2001/2002 soccer season when he was transferred from Swedish club Saint Gallen to Sturm Graz in Austria for a fee of $3.320 million.

But after playing a key role in Ghana?s qualification to the 2002 Cup of Nations in Mali he was confined to the bench due to a nagging knee injury.

Nicknamed ?bayie?, he also featured prominently for Olewan, Winterthur and Frauenfeld all, of Sweden, and later joined Salzburg during the twilight of his career.

Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak are Ghana?s two representatives in this year?s Champions League which also features some of Africa?s finest teams including Assec Abidjan and Ahly.