New York Red Bull boss Jeff Agoos says it is a long shot that the club will sign Serbian striker Veljko Paunovic.

The ex-Atletico Madrid man recently trialled with the struggling MLS club and it looked like a deal was on the cards but Agoos has cooled those talks.

"We've had a couple email exchanges but nothing substantial,” Agoos said.

“My feeling is right now it's more of a longshot than anything. But we've left everything on good terms and we're continuing our discussions.

"A formal offer is the league presenting a contract and that never happened. We talked generally in terms of money, but nothing too specific.

"This wasn't really even a Plan A. He sort of fell on our doorstep, so to speak. He walked in the league office and said I'm interested in playing and we happened to get a lead on it; so this sort of fell in our laps.''