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Phil Parkinson admits he is unlikely, at this stage, to add one of his main defensive targets to the squad before Friday evening’s deadline.

Parkinson revealed earlier this month that he was tracking ‘one or two’ players who had been on his radar right from the beginning of the summer, in the hope that their parent clubs might make them available in the latter stages of the window.

Sunderland’s need for reinforcements was heightened by a medium-term injury to Morgan Feeney, and became even more critical over the international break.

The transfer frustration Sunderland suffered this week as Phil Parkinson explains exactly where he stands right now