Watch angry Steve Bruce respond to Lee Ryder when quizzed on transfer policy - Video

A telling clip has been released from Steve Bruce's press conference earlier today, showing the angered NUFC boss give some pretty ratty answers when asked questions about the club's failure to back him this summer.

This morning saw him address our lack of activity on deadline day and the club's odd statement for the first time since returning from his holiday in Portugal...

After snapping back to a local reporter when asked if he was 'comfortable' with the club statement released last week, he then gave an agitated response to Lee Ryder - who asked him to expand on the current transfer policy.

Watch his responses to the press below, with his face speaking volumes 34 seconds in:

He looks a frustrated man and was clearly struggling with the questions put his way by the local press, yet his overall message was to shrug his shoulders and say "it is what it is"..."what can I do."

No one expected him to slate Mike Ashley and the club's statement released last week, but his comments stink of a yes man who is taking his frustrations out on journalists doing their job - not the man who actually blocked the deadline day deals he'd been crying out for all summer.