A picture of the injury-hit striker with the expensive motor was posted online prompting the furious backlash
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Sunderland has defended himself after an online backlash to a picture of him posing with a £260,000 Lamborghini Aventador supercar.
The picture of the 27-year-old Scot with the expensive motor on the drive of his luxury home was posted online.
Furious fans questioned his decision to flaunt his wealth while the club are battling relegation and have just sacked manager Gus Poyet.
Injury-hit Fletcher, who earns £40,000 a week, has scored just four goals for Sunderland this season and just seven in two years at the club.
However his agent Scott Fisher insisted Fletcher had not posted the car photo on Twitter, .
He blamed the company who sold the Lamborghini for putting the picture online.
Fisher added: “It wasn’t Steven that put the picture up.
“The company who were doing advertising on it done it.
“I don’t know what the problem is and what people are getting excited about.”
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Poor form: Injury-hit Fletcher has scored just four times for Sunderland this season
Fletcher was shown last week posing with the car which was parked in his driveway just feet from a £160,000 Bentley.
One angry fan later tweeted: “This is where the Sky money goes, into mediocre players’ pockets while lower league clubs can barely afford their academy.”
Another fan blasted: “There is no way he is good enough to have that kind of lifestyle.
“This is what is wrong with the game.” A third fan added: “Two seasons, 7 goals, 1 new Lamborghini Aventador.”
The Italian giant’s Aventador model is one of the most expensive cars.
Bruce Wayne even drove one in Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises.
Fletcher began his career with Hibernian before lucrative moves to Burnley, Wolves and Sunderland racking up transfer fees totalling more than £20million.
The Lamborghini boob is not the first time he has fallen foul of social media.
In January, he posted images of himself on Instagram having spat on the back of a rickshaw driver taking him to a night out in London.
Footage and images of the incident were later removed from the player’s account.
Fletcher also sparked fury in 2012 when he tried to flog his new clothing range to 100,000 Twitter followers just hours after Scotland had failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals.
