Fellow Irish compatriot Graham Kavanagh looks set to join Roy Keanes Sunderland revolution. Both players have been released from the Irish squad to have their medicals.
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TRANSFER WINDOW ACTION
IN: Kevin Kilbane (Everton, £700,000), David Cotterill (Bristol City £2 million), Svetoslav Todorov (Portsmouth, Season Loan).
OUT: Graham Kavanagh (Sunderland, £500,000), David Connolly (Sunderland, £1.9 million), Pascal Chimbonda (Tottenham, £5.5 million)