'Seriously getting p***ed off now,' read his first message. The striker then went on to add: 'Why can't anything be simple?
'Sunderland are not the problem in the slightest.
'Do I wanna go Hull City? NO. Do I wanna go Stoke? NO. Do I wanna go Sunderland? YES So stop f****** around Levy.".'
'He said: “I had a good chat with the manager recently and I just thought that, with the run we’re on at the moment, I needed to get rid of the distractions.
“I have to solely focus on getting Sunderland out of the relegation battle and I have shut the Twitter down. I don’t even go on it any more to look at what other people are posting.
“It became a distraction I didn’t need. I thought I would fully concentrate on the football.â€'