A furious Phil Foden deletes an unauthorised tweet about Kylian Mbappe after Manchester City secure an impressive win in Dortmund.
The young England international was forced to delete a tweet allegedly posted by his social media team about Kylian Mbappe after he scored the winner to send Man City into a Champions League semi-final against PSG.
A tweet from the rising star’s account appeared to throw down the gauntlet to French striker Mbappe.
The tweet said ‘@KMbappe are you ready’, which was posted minutes after Pep Guardiola’s men beat Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday night.
According to Daily Mail, the tweet from the Premier League player’s account was posted without his permission and he was left furious, so much so he quickly asked for the tweet to be deleted.
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville recently said it was ‘a shame’ that players didn’t control their own social media.
The Sky Sports pundit spoke after several players posted near identical tweets following England’s victory over Albania last month.
Nev wrote: I mentioned on here a few weeks ago about players having their accounts run by social media companies. Lads run your own accounts! Your independent thought and authenticity is at stake . It’s your voice , not anyone else’s. Morning by the way . Go and attack the hell out of it
I mentioned on here a few weeks ago about players having their accounts run by social media companies. Lads run your own accounts! Your independent thought and authenticity is at stake . It’s your voice , not anyone else’s. Morning by the way . Go and attack the hell out of it ❤️ pic.twitter.com/M997r8kbWa
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) April 15, 2021
Joe Hart was also left red faced last month after a big gaffe from his social media team.
Spurs were dumped out of the Europa League by Dinamo Zagreb, but Hart’s Instagram posted ‘job done’ despite the defeat.
Hart said: “I feel like I need to come on and make an apology on behalf of my social media team, I’ve literally just woke up.
“Someone thought that we’d won 3-0 last night. As sloppy as it sounds it’s the truth.
“They posted ‘job done’. That’s unacceptable. I’m sure that’s annoyed a lot of people and I’m sorry it’s come to that but it’s obviously not come from me.”
Back to the big win for Man City on Wednesday and Jude Bellingham became the youngest English goalscorer in the Champions League when opening the scoring to put Borussia Dortmund ahead in the quarter-final tie; though Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden hit back to send Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side through.
Player Ratings
Borussia Dortmund: Hitz (6), Morey (6), Akanji (6), Hummels (6), Guerreiro (6), Emre Can (5), Dahoud (7), Bellingham (8), Reus (7), Knauff (6), Haaland (6)
Subs: Reyna (6), Brandt (6)
Man City: Ederson (7), Walker (7), Stones (6), Dias (7), Zinchenko (7), Rodri (7), Gundogan (7), De Bruyne (8), Mahrez (8), Foden (8), Bernardo (7)
Subs: Sterling (6),
Man of the match: Kevin De Bruyne
Pep Guardiola said: “I’m incredibly happy for this club, the chairman, the players, the fans.
“We were brilliant except for the first 10 minutes.
“We’re going to try and play a good game [against PSG].
“It was a penalty that maybe could not have been given but this is a competition that depends on these situations but we played with personality, we passed the ball and we did it.
“Phil came to the bench and found me. This hug is for all the club, all the people who are working so hard this season.”
Fans reacted after seeing that a furious Phil Foden deletes the unauthorised tweet about Mbappe with Gary Neville having his say…
@alexbrown_1995: Same thing with post match media interviews it’s so polished and regurgitated media friendly fodder due to the fear of whipping up a frenzy yet people love a personality imagine a footballer that spoke like a mcgregor they’d be worshipped massively missing a trick. “Yeah good game but onto the next one all about the team blah blah” imagine a player coming out laughing it up about how good they were people don’t want to hear the same old pc crap all the time it’s so boring massive gap in the market for someone to break the mould
@rajeshsharmay2k: Completely agree.. this feels like cheating. Last night when I saw the post I thought.. wow that is some swag. The kid has balls. Now looks like it is agency. Disappointed to say the least.
@CMACYT: Not the players fault that they’ll get fined or banned if they be themselves.
@tmorison: Authenticity is what people are looking for.
@sammymalty: They can’t be themselves any more we know that. Just watch any post match interview, almost off a script
@wheresmyarsenal: Surely at the very least players should have final say on what gets posted and be involved in the process???
@joanne1894: Why would they run it to get abuse or racial abuse from morons dont blame him one bit for getting someone else to deal with the shit
@Sam_avfc93: Also if players are getting a constant barrage of hateful comments and abuse why would they want to control it themselves. An example of this is Jordan Henderson. It’s important for players to have a media presence but if this coincides with this then who’d blame them for not.
@AlexTaghd: To be fair if I was a famous footballer I’d prob come off social media till after my career. It’s not a safe place really
@ThatChelseaGuy1: It’s kind of sad to see players allowing companies to just post whatever they want on their behalf. It makes it feel like its more of a fans page rather than the actual individual online
@Justin_Boswick: Technically it’s only Phil Foden’s social media team calling out Mbappe’s social media team, they’re basically calling themselves out
@IndexSteve: The amusing part is how so many ‘fans’ fall for it. It couldn’t be more obvious that most of these accounts just quote the predictable
@CharlieAllen66: Most of them do. Whilst I respect Thierry Henry’s position it is clear that he did not author any of his postings. All commercial. Missed opportunity
@SteveMartin_TM: Agreed, it’s unbelievable these guys can’t knock up a sentence themselves, how difficult is ‘we go again’
@CooneyFitness: Honestly, why would any footballer run their own social media! It’s an absolute cess pit. Racial abuse, death threats, personal abuse on every post! Makes absolutely no sense to open yourself to that! Fair play to the ones who do but no problem with ones that don’t!
@ollhol331: Players like @_DeclanRice and @ArthurMasuaku always tweet for themselves and as a fan I absolutely them for it. I just hope Declan is able to continually connect with the fans throughout his career without being driven off of social media by trolls / the press etc.
@Mattyread_91: Completely agree with @GNev2 also fans want to connect with the player personally not a robot.
@Flashstormer: Yes, but when it is supporting greenwood, No one cares. If it was mason, the headline would probably be ‘ Disgraced player mason greenwood calls out world star mbapp’e in a cheeky post’
@David57George: I don’t know why these players can’t do their own accounts. They don’t post all that much. Joe Hart had something similar recently.
@TolgaTweetz: They do. They just use this line whenever they mess up or the club isn’t happy with what they’ve posted. Only the superstars whose names are brands have professional social media handlers.
@KDBodied: First thought was that he got too ahead of himself and then I assumed it just couldn’t be him
@zufariblue: Idiots, honestly. To think that someone like Foden would want that tweeted from his account at all, never mind at that time, shows they really don’t have a clue. The types who think every footballer should conduct themselves like Zlatan, then wonder why managers don’t pick them.
@Stewadda: I’m unfollowing then if he had got some nerds posting for him. Why follow anyone if it’s not actually them?
@Kooshycooooooo: That’s 99% of every PL footballer none of them actually post and I am shocked by anyone who actually thinks they did
@ACovertPenguin: Exactly what it felt like, not really in Phil’s character to do so.Really wish players made the choice to either control the social media themselves or just handed it over and made sure the company presented a more professional image. The blend feels so wrong at times.
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