Roy Keane continues to be coy over his future at Sunderland.
"It's OK having a three-year deal but I'll be into my third year next year.
"I understand the business side of it, I've got to manage the club upwards as well as downwards and people need to know where they stand.
"If we can stabilise, then people keep asking me: 'Do I want to carry the challenge forward?'
"But I have to ask the people who own the club the same question: 'Are we prepared to go to the next bar?' It works both ways.
"If I was ever to leave Sunderland then where would I go? There's not many bigger challenges. Sunderland are a proper football club."