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SUNDERLAND BOSS Roy Keane has admitted he will be looking to offload players rather than make signings during the January transfer window. The 37-year-old, who will take charge of his 100th game when Bolton visit the Stadium of Light tomorrow, has invested approaching €95.5 million in his squad since arriving on Wearside in August 2006.

Keane has been backed by chairman Niall Quinn's Drumaville consortium, but currently has no fewer than 11 players out on loan with a 12th, Carlos Edwards, having been recalled from Wolves last week and a 13th, Russell Anderson, recovering from a serious injury sustained during his spell at Burnley. Nine of those men - Michael Chopra, Greg Halford, Anthony Stokes, Paul McShane, Ross Wallace, Roy O'Donovan, Graham Kavanagh, Edwards and Anderson - were signed by the Irishman, and he knows he cannot keep them all happy.