COMMENTARY
Many Manchester City fans were fuming with Riyad Mahrez after his display against Newport County in the FA Cup and it’s fair to say his fan club wouldn’t have seen a boost in numbers on Saturday. The 27-year-old clearly isn’t a popular figure among Man City fans, as he wasn’t exactly awful against the League 2 side, but still got so much criticism on Twitter. While Mahrez could have passed the ball on more occasions, as fans below dubbed him selfish and greedy, he clearly was desperate to make an impression. The winger has only managed to feature sparingly this season, though it was his 35th outing across all competitions on Saturday, as he isn’t seen as a starter at the club. However based on the reaction on his performance below, loads of Man City supporters are not keen for that change. In fact one rather harshly abruptly asked Mahrez to leave their club, which wasn’t nice. While Mahrez got criticised despite getting a goal, Man City did end up beating Newport County 4-1.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
let’s not kid ourselves, mahrez is worthless.
— Nabil Baracat (@nabilbaracat) February 16, 2019
This is why Mahrez doesn’t play! Greedy all the time. Makes the selfish choice every chance he gets.
— Duffy (@Chrisbluemoon89) February 16, 2019
We would be lucky to get 6 million for Mahrez , he makes Lakaku look talented #mcfc #NEWMCI
— Paul Hallsworth (@ozzie2920) February 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/Delph4BallonDor/status/1096831303985565697
Mahrez is even more one dimensional than Jesus Navas wow
— Kushagra (City ka parivar) (@Kushagra9320) February 16, 2019
Can someone hide all of mahrez's boots please?
— DAN (@dankthemanc) February 16, 2019
Mahrez pass count: 0
— ?? (@Stinkicans) February 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/killer_gorton/status/1096830725377196038
