Mancini is unemployed after he was sacked at the end of last season, despite leading Inter to their third successive Scudetto, while CSKA coach Valery Gazzaev has already announced he will leave the club at the end of the campaign.

Reports in Russia suggested that Mancini had been approached to take charge of the 2005 UEFA Cup winners, but the coach's agent has denied any contact with the club.

"The Russian media are wrong," Giorgio De Giorgis told Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport. "There has been no contact with CSKA and at the moment there are no talks going on.

"Mancini is still under contract with Inter and only when the situation resolves itself will he begin to consider other coaching positions."

Mancini, who was replaced by Jose Mourinho on the Inter bench, had a contract until 2012 and his lawyers are currently negotiating a pay-off for the 43-year-old.