Sunderland's players can't expect any freebies from the club's new majority shareholder Ellis Short.
The People says the Dallas-based city whiz now owns almost a third of the Black Cats after a deal with the Drumaville group who wanted backing for players and Roy Keane's new contract.
Short bought Skibo Castle in the Highlands and turned it into the Carnegie Club where Guy Ritchie and Madonna married.
Golf course membership is £7,500- a-year by invitation only and a source revealed there are no footballers at present.