South Africa ace Benni McCarthy insists he has plenty to offer Blackburn Rovers.

The striker told the Lancashire Telegraph: "I want to start from the word go and that is where my focus is. If I can do that and the team can achieve well, getting picked for the national team could happen.

"I am concentrated on Blackburn and making sure we do better than we did last season. I can do nothing about the South Africa situation. I want to be there next summer but we will have to see what happens.

"I had a lot of desire to play with the national team in my home country in the first World Cup in Africa. I still do."