Welcome to the Sunderland AFC live blog with all the latest news, views and transfer round-ups for Friday, January 27.

Sunderland have this morning confirmed that they have accepted an offer from Crystal Palace for defender Patrick van Aanholt.

The fee is believed to be £14million, which is nearly ten times more than the £1.5million that the Black Cats paid for him back in 2014.

As the Dutch left-back departs, David Moyes now has that money to spend and has less than a week to find a new left-back and potentially other players too.

We’ll have all the latest transfer news, including more on and rumours right here.

As always we also want to hear from you! If you have any opinion on a matter we discuss in the blog or anything Sunderland related, please tweet us at @ChronicleSAFC with your views and they could be featured, and discussed.

Live updates from Craig Johns, James Hunter and Andrew Musgrove, who will be right here throughout the day.