Leroy Fer not Sunderland bound - Dick Advocaat

Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat has insisted that Queens Park Rangers midfielder Leroy Fer will not join the club this summer.

The Netherlands international failed a medical at the Wearside club on Thursday.

Advocaat has now revealed that the deal has come to a dead end and the player will return to the R's.

"Yeah, definitely. Unfortunately that kind of thing happens. It didn't work out for us," he told reporters.

Sunderland visit Leicester City in their opening game of the Premier League season.