Young Irish striker Roy O'Donovan is being linked with a move to Hartlepool, O'Donovan has featured in 17 Sunderland games but has failed to score a single goal.
Roy Keane signed the striker from Cork City for £500,000, failing to impress at Sunderland O'Donovan spent a lot of his Sunderland contract out on loan to Dundee United and Blackpool.