Nicolas Lombaerts denies failing medical: 'I didn't want to join Sunderland'
Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
Nicolas Lombaerts holds a very different version of why his transfer from Zenit St. Petersburg to Sunderland collapsed.
In conversation with Belgian publication Sporza, Lombaerts denied that he failed a medical at Sunderland on Monday - as reports had suggested - and argued that he instead made a conscious decision not to sign for the Tyne-Wear club.
"I took the decision myself," Lombaerts said, according to the Guardian. "I didn't want to join Sunderland. The story about a failed medical is untrue."
Lombaerts suffered a serious knee injury in 2008 but recovered, and has now featured for Zenit more than 200 times.
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