Quinn eyeing 30 months more at helm

NIALL QUINN expects to be at the Sunderland helm for at least a further two-and-a-half years if Roy Keane commits his future to Wearside.

Talks have begun over a new deal for manager Keane, whose contract is up next summer.

Chairman Quinn, front man for the Irish-led Drumaville consortium which brought Keane to the Stadium of Light in August 2006, said: “My job is somewhere between passing information between the shareholders and providing structures. I have a kind of middleman role helping Roy.