Sunderland will be paying players to leave the club this summer, as Roy Keane plans another clear-out.

Still incensed from our sloppy performance against Bolton on Saturday night, Keane has said that he is prepared to pay off some player's contracts in order to get them to leave.

Keano confirmed: "That will be done this week - if not this week, then the following week. It's irrelevant to me whether players are under contract. If they are, you just pay them up to go because you want certain characters.

"You pay them to come and you pay them to go and that's what we'll have to do. I'll have a very busy week.

"Every game is an opportunity to impress me, but there will be changes in the summer because I'm saying the same thing week in, week out. I'm fed up of saying it and really bored with myself now at this stage - really, really bored.

"Gordon Strachan and one or two other managers have said that if you tell a player something more than two or three times and he doesn't do it, then get shot of him."

Prior to the Bolton game, some newspapers "revealed" a list of players that Keane was looking at getting rid of Ian Harte, Paul McShane, Marton Fulop, Russell Anderson, Liam Miller, Rade Prica, Ross Wallace, Greg Halford and Stephen Wright all set to go.