Plenty of Newcastle United fans have flocked to a tweet that was recently posted by Toon loanee Nabil Bentaleb.
Bentaleb, who joined Newcastle United on loan from Bundesliga side Schalke back in the January transfer window, shared an image of himself sitting down while wearing some recovery pump boots in his recent tweet. He also captioned this post with the words: “active recovery before the Premier League”.
The Toon are set to compete in their first Premier League game since the seventh of March this Sunday when they are scheduled to take on Sheffield United and after Bentaleb provided Newcastle supporters with some insight into his preparation ahead of this game via his recent tweet, some Magpies fans have been responding to the post.
Active recovery before Premier League ? pic.twitter.com/OKYgimOu2E
— Nabil Bentaleb (@nabilbentaleb42) June 18, 2020
Some Newcastle fans questioned Bentaleb’s use of the word ‘active’ to describe his preparation in response to this post, with one Toon fan sharing that they don’t believe there is anything active about what Bentaleb is doing in this image.
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Somebody went to inform him of the definition of active https://t.co/TYXGZrPDKE
— Firby (@FirbyJ_) June 18, 2020
nowt active about it
— Jonny Cole ???? (@JohnnyCole84) June 18, 2020
Other Newcastle supporters offered some humorous replies to this post, with some indicating that they think Bentaleb’s recovery pump boots resemble batting pads that a cricket player would wear.
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They making you play cricket? Lol. All the best for Sunday mate #NUFC
— Sean Cavens ???? (@seancavens) June 18, 2020
Getting ready to bat
— Pochettino Asprilla (@PochettinoAspri) June 18, 2020
Meanwhile, a couple of Toon fans shared that Bentaleb’s recovery pump boots remind them of the film ‘RoboCop’.
Bionictaleb ?? pic.twitter.com/MFMcTvOKEI
— Sam Jones (@SamJonesJourno) June 18, 2020
I swear I’ve seen those legs before… https://t.co/z6FkfaIPTc pic.twitter.com/gITIoTqrba
— Charcus Rushford (@MastrContender) June 18, 2020
While this may be an important part of the midfielder’s recovery and preparation ahead of Newcastle’s next Premier League game, he does appear to be quite relaxed in this image he has shared, so it might be understandable why some Toon fans replied to this post to question Bentaleb’s use of the word ‘active’ here.