O’Neill: No talk of transfer pot

MARTIN O’NEILL insists he accepted the job of Sunderland manager without a single mention of the January transfer kitty.

The 59-year-old saw the team he inherited from Steve Bruce slip to within a point of the Premier League drop zone with a 2-1 defeat at Wolves on Sunday. A lack of goals is proving fatal in the wake of the departures of Darren Bent in January and Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck during the summer.

O’Neill said: “I had discussions with the owner of the football club. They weren’t very long and that wasn’t discussed, genuinely never discussed.