FC Basel coach Murat Yakin has ducked talk of taking the Lazio job.

Yakin has been linked with Vladimir Petkovic's job.

"I have heard a few things," he told srf.ch. "But I do not want to comment out of respect for Basel.

"They are my club and I want to do well with them."

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