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Ronny Deila was far from impressed by Celtic striker Anthony Stokes’ comments on Twitter prior to day’s game.
It’s been a tough week for the Norwegian after Thursdays 2-1 defeat to Ajax as the Hoops manager found himself under a wave of criticism from some fans.
Clearly having a dig at Deila, Stokes tweeted the following.
https://twitter.com/stoksey10/status/670902741301075968
https://twitter.com/stoksey10/status/670907724662730752
Stokes joined Celtic in 2010 and has scored 58 goals in 135 league appearances and played a vital part during Neil Lennon’s managerial era, creating a deadly partnership with Gary Hooper up front.
But since Deila’s arrival he has fallen down the pecking order and the out-of-favour Hoops star has only made two appearances this season – his last coming in a 3-1 win against Dundee United in August.
After the 3-1 victory against Caley Thistle, the Celtic manager let it known that he wasn’t impressed as quoted by the Guardian:
We travel every week with 20 players and the manager puts out 11 and seven on the bench and there are always two left out. If that is harder for him than somebody else, then for me he is not a team player.
What is important with Stokesy is that he has to show the work first before he speaks and if you do that then you always have a future. But so far he has been more [about] talking than performances.
Stokes did take to Twitter shortly after full-time to apologise, but it will do little to ease the retrospective punishment coming his way.
https://twitter.com/stoksey10/status/670971738344325120
It appears Anthony Stokes’ time at Celtic is up, however, this is not the first time this season a senior Celtic player has been embroiled in controversy.
In October, Kris Commons was involved in public outburst towards the management team during the game against Molde and then more recently, Charlie Mulgrew left the team a player short after running up the tunnel before the final whistle in the game against Ajax.
Aodhán Ó Conchobhair 
Eric Knott 
If Stokes feels so strongly about playing ( strange though he hasn’t commented about collecting wages whilst not playing when in glasgow) then he could always tear up his contract and sign for one of the many clubs he feels are worthy of his services. Or he could do what other players have done and do more work and less talking and attempt to prove the manager wrong in not picking him