Raheem Sterling has denied twice calling in sick for Liverpool training before his £49 million move to Manchester City.
The 20-year-old England international completed his transfer to the Etihad Stadium last week - for a fee that makes him the most expensive English player in history - following a long-running saga over his future.
Sterling missed two days of training in his final week at the club, with many suggesting that his absences were designed to force through a transfer.
But Sterling has now rebuffed such talk and insists that he was suffering from a genuine illness, and says that it was the Liverpool doctor who prevented him from joining his team-mates on the training pitch.
"Everyone thought I threw a sick note in. I was in training on the Tuesday - in the changing room my stomach started hurting. I still went out and trained though," he told the Manchester Evening News.
"That day I went home, and I told the doc I was ill. My stomach was rumbling and I had diarrhoea.
"The doctor just said to me you can't be around the other players. For the next 48 hours, I stayed at home.
"That's what the club doctor told me to do. When that 48 hours was done I came back to training as normal."
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