Sunderland boss Gus Poyet is in the dark over reports regarding Ricky Alvarez needing to be signed permanently.
Poyet denies being aware of reports that Sunderland are duty-bound to sign Alvarez at the end of the season from Inter Milan.
"I'm not going into details too much because I don't know," he said. "I'm not really involved in that."
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