Fabricio Coloccini's agent has dismissed suggestions that the defender wants to leave Newcastle United in January.

On Thursday the 30-year-old's father Osvaldo said that the Argentine wants to move back to his old club San Lorenzo and "is trying his best to find an elegant way to leave Newcastle".

"The San Lorenzo thing arises because of a personal matter and because his father is at the club," Marcelo Lombilla told Radio 9.

"He only renewed his contract six months ago. These stories always create a buzz and generate illusions, but they are just that illusions and nothing more.

"I just cannot believe that these things are written."

Coloccini has been with Newcastle since 2008.