Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:14 pm
ALLARDYCE: NO DEFOE OFFERS
07/01/16
Striker Jermain Defoe will only leave Sunderland in this transfer window if the club receive an offer they simply cannot refuse, according to manager Sam Allardyce.
Bournemouth were reported to have an interest in the 33-year-old, who scored 19 goals for the club in a loan spell 15 years ago, but Allardyce said he had not been informed of any offers.
Allardyce said: "We haven't had a bid for him, for one, and I suppose if I had had a bid for him, I'd have probably turned it down - unless it was that big a bid that the owner had told me, 'This bid is so big, Sam, that we can't afford to turn it down', and every club has that scenario.
"But no, we haven't had a bid for Jermain and no, we don't want to sell him."