As Sunderland have followed Bent now for most of the pre-season you can understand Steve Bruce threatening to end his pursuit for the Spurs man. Sunderland are in need of a consistent floe of goals, Bent is a decent Premier League striker with good experience but he scored a major political own goal by expressing his frustration so publicly on social networking site twitter.com. By slating Hull City and Stoke he won't have made any friends there and also Daniel Levy would have surely been fuming with the tweet. By the end of the day, Bent apologised for his actions.In the same week as Phil Hughes twittered about being dropped, it's not surprising that some of these spoilt sportsmen are washing thier linen in public via the internet. However it is not a channel of communication that can be used by a player directly, surely the player must always communicate via the club they work for and with their approval.
Interesting word of mouth though...