Newcastle United fans slaughtered midfielder Mo Diame on Twitter following their team’s 1-0 defeat to Burnley on Monday night.
The 30-year-old was handed his first league start of the season as manager Rafael Benitez made the shock decision to drop anchorman Isaac Hayden to the bench even though Spanish star Mikel Merino was ruled out completely due to a back injury.
Diame, whose only other start for Newcastle this season had come in the League Cup, played 83 minutes of the match before he made way for Dwight Gayle.
The Toon Army were less than impressed with what they saw in the narrow loss and took to Twitter to vent their frustrations at the former Hull City midfielder.
The Senegal international has 185 Premier League outings under his belt after time with the Tigers and West Ham, with 16 goals and seven assists to his name, but Newcastle supporters believe his performance left a huge amount to be desired and some even called for him to be sold in the January window.
This Is Futbol has rounded up the best tweets:
Him and diame surely have to realise now they need to be sold in January
— Señor Granty (@GrantyNUFC) October 30, 2017
Not sure who was more depressed out of me and the missus last night. She watched @louistheroux doc on anorexia and I watched Mo Diame #NUFC
— Dan Small (@Smalley75) October 31, 2017
Worst performance in a while from a player in Black&White. How Diame gets on that pitch baffles me. Starting line up questionable #nufc
— Paul Burnip (@TurnipBurnip) October 31, 2017
Jack Colback is better than Mo Diame. #NUFC
— TheMackemSlayer (@TheMackemSlayer) October 31, 2017
There was a Diame who looked great for Hull. Wonder what happened to him? #nufc
— Newyorkmagpie (@newyorkmagpie) October 30, 2017
Diabolical effort going forward so far we have been toothless up top.
diame,atsu,Perez,Ritchie,Shelvey all having shockers. #nufc— Mark (@mja1980) October 30, 2017
Hopefully the Merino injury is minor, Diame is not having a good day. Guess he got the nod over Hayden because of his physicality? #NUFC
— CC (@JamesHunt07) October 30, 2017
Diame isn't coming back out for the second half, surely? Utter rubbish. #NUFC
— mike stec (@mikepumpkin) October 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/alex_cookson/status/925102946152599552
https://twitter.com/darrencowan160/status/925102859540140032
Joselu awful, Diame awful #NUFC
— Luke (@LukeMidd1) October 30, 2017
Diame a complete waste of space for me. Has offered us absolutely Zero #NUFC
— David Lackenby (@DLackas4) October 30, 2017
Can we take Diame off? Don't even have to bring anyone on, just take him off #NUFC
— Murray White (@Muzza_90) October 30, 2017