Celtic have suspended Irish striker Anthony Stokes for two weeks following the player's outburst on Twitter at the weekend, according to the Daily Record.
The Scottish newspaper is reporting that Stokes has been provisionally suspended for being “disrespectful to his team-mates, manager and the club’s fans”.
Stokes took to the social media site to vent his frustration at being left out of the squad for Celtic's clash with Inverness, a move that angered manager Ronny Deila and club officials.
Buzzing to be brought all the way up to inverness with the team to sit in the stands today, lovely weather for it too...🙈😳
— Anthony Stokes (@stoksey10) November 29, 2015
The 27-year-old wrote: "Buzzing to be brought all the way up to inverness with the team to sit in the stands today, lovely weather for it too."
The former Hibernian forward followed it up by tweeting: "Who gives a f*** about wages when your not playing games! It's all about playing and contributing not picking up a wage."
Stokes later tweeted an apology, saying: "Sorry for earlier Tweet. Hope fans can appreciate my frustration, heat of the moment."
But that failed to prevent him becoming increasingly isolated from the Celtic first team.
Stokes has featured only twice for the Hoops this season due to injuries and suspensions and was on the bench for the Europa League clash against Ajax on Thursday.
Deila said after his team's 3-1 Ladbrokes Premiership win on Sunday: "It is (disrespectful) for the boys. 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 talking than performances."
Stokes' last appearance came against Dundee United in August.
