Simon Zebo: Stories about unhappy Munster camp 'not true at all'

Simon Zebo insists Munster is a "happy club" and that stories of an unsettled camp are "not true at all".

The list of issues surrounding the province this season is lengthy.

A senior coach suggested in December that a new club captain would be announced in a couple of weeks but there has been no confirmation of who will take over from Peter O'Mahony, who surprisingly stepped down from the role in November.

O’Mahony, the Ireland captain, is still not confirmed as a Munster player for next season. Last week Denis Leamy said a decision was imminent.

Out-half Joey Carbery is heading for Bordeaux next season, lock RG Snyman is relocating to Leinster, while the future of centre Antoine Frisch is uncertain after he declared for France last week.

Graham Rowntree’s side were dumped out of the Investec Champions Cup at the weekend, going down 24-14 away to Northampton, and it was revealed afterwards that the camp had been hit with illness building up to the match.

"I think a lot more would be made out of it in the media than it would be from us," Zebo told RTÉ Sport.

"Things like that, players move on all the time in clubs all over the world, that’s normal.

"We’ve had some moving parts, along with other clubs, but we don’t take too much notice.

"We are in our own bubble, we know what really goes on at the club and it’s a happy club.

"If we underperform in a game you could look to certain excuses and say 'this player is moving, is the camp unsettled?’ but it’s all false, it’s not true at all."

"We all get on extremely well, we all look forward to coming into work every day and putting our best foot forward.

"I’m sure there were those excuses last year that would have been on the table, and people would have been saying leading up to Christmas