Transfer Talk: Mignolet's agent denies goalkeeeper wants to leave

Simon Mignolet's  has denied claims his client is looking to leave Sunderland this summer.

Vaesen spoke to the Sunderland Echo suggesting that an ambitious Mignolet believed he would need to leave Sunderland to further his international career.

Vandersmissen has since spoken to ESPN and said: “"Nico played at Huddersfield and the manager was Steve Bruce and that was the contact. Steve Bruce asked him for the goalkeepers and he proposed Simon Mignolet, but that does not mean he is the agent of Simon Mignolet.

"I am the representative of Simon Mignolet. Simon is my player, I've been working with Simon since he was 16 years old. At this moment there are some clubs who are interested.

"For a lot of players there are some clubs interested but Simon still has a two-year contract in Sunderland, so we depend on the position that Sunderland is taking in relationship to an eventual transfer of Simon Mignolet."

Mignolet has consistently been linked with a move to both Arsenal and Liverpool but Vandersmissen says his client is happy to stay at Sunderland for the remaining two years of his contract.

Vandersmissen said: "There is a contract so we have to respect the contract.

"But I don't think at this moment we would be prepared to sign a new contract. “When there is a new contract the team can block a player [from moving].

“There is another two years on his contract, if they want us to stick to that, we will stick to that and perhaps leave after two years if there is an interest in Simon.”

"Should they say now we are prepared to discuss [a new contract in two years] we must be prepared to discuss the option.

“If they want to make a proposal to Simon, they should come up with a decent proposal and we will then have a look at it.

"I would say four or five months ago we talked but the situation for Sunderland was not that good.

“It was not clear that they would have enough quality to stay in the Premiership so it was not the right moment to discuss or sign a new contract because we didn't want to start up in the Championship next season."