Martin Jol has hit back at Fulham's former striker Bobby Zamora for suggesting "the vast majority" of the club's squad do not like the manager.

Zamora was sold to Queens Park Rangers in January after frequent reports that he did not get on with Jol. The forward broke his silence this week and claimed he was not the only player to have a problem with the Dutchman, who was surprised that his former charge decided to make such comments.

"It is probably sour grapes," Jol said. "I think nothing is what it seems. Everyone knows me. The players know me so one player will say this, another player will say that.

"It doesn't matter. I don't care. For me the most important thing is we get the results, so you will have to ask the players. If they do well and work hard, I try to get a good relationship with them. If not, I don't.

"Insiders here know that this probably started after two weeks of me being here. There were a few leaks in the paper and I asked him [Zamora] and he said, 'No, it wasn't me.' I knew it was him and his agent 100%.

"He said, 'No, it wasn't me, I hate the press.' He hated defence and later said he hated crosses as well and that was the moment I thought, 'Maybe it is better to sell' and that is what we did."

Zamora was followed out of the club this summer by a number of key players, including Mousa Dembélé, Clint Dempsey, Danny Murphy, Andrew Johnson and Dickson Etuhu.

Asked if he had an issue with any of those players, Jol replied: "If you take Clint Dempsey, it is different from Mousa Dembélé. Mousa was phoning me after his move and thanking me for everything. Every player is different.

"Clint wanted to move, so then the relationship would not be great. Danny Murphy I wanted to keep, so ask him. There were no issues at all. With Bobby it started after a couple of weeks. Everybody knew and now he has moved on. We moved on."