Balls. Balls balls balls balls balls. Had been blindly pretending it wouldn't happen till I read that!
Maybe I'm naiive, but surely Patrick would only know any more than us if Sunderland had actually sounded him/Hecky out? If he says it's just rumours, then unless he's telling porkies surely it means there's been no contact. Good news I'd say - if he was their no.1 target I'd have expected them to have made an approach by now.
I would imagine Patrick will have said "now here you go again, you say you want your freedom; well who am I to keep you down? It's only right that you should play the way you feel it."
Impressive tie in to Rumours there, I'm hoping for something more like "And if, you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain)"
So according to the twitter feed you read, apparently sunderland have been in touch with Patrick to tell him they will be in touch tomorrow. Surprised you fell for that one, its not difficult to see the flaw in the story.