Sunderland boss Roy Keane has warned Dwight Yorke over his hopes of earning another contract.

Keane is angry with Yorke over the Trinidad & Tobago fiasco last week and rapped: "Do I want him to stick around?

"Yeah, of course. But I want him to get his priorities right.

"Yorkie is a clown and he wouldn't have got a contract (had Keane anticipated this). He's brought it all on himself."

Despite having "reluctantly" agreed to release Yorke, Keane is upset his ex-Manchester United team-mate did not take more personal responsibility.

"I'm on about a player who has been injured," he pointed out. "He's not been match fit but wants to travel halfway across the world to play a match. Any other manager would tell you unless they've played for their club first, they really can't be selected for international teams.

"He's coming back from a busted cheekbone. I would have probably played him at Forest (in the League Cup last month) but the surgeon was telling us to go easy on him.

"But he wants to jump on a plane and play for bloody Trinidad." Keane insisted he would not pressure Yorke into retiring from international football for a sixth time but it would be a major surprise if he did not.

"I'm not against people changing their minds, but I think he's done it two or three times," he said.