Some Newcastle United fans flocked to a tweet that was recently posted by the club’s official Twitter account that shared a link to a post on the Toon’s website that included some images from training that were taken ahead of Newcastle United’s clash with Manchester City on Wednesday evening.
Ahead of Wednesday evening’s clash with Manchester City, Newcastle have secured mathematical safety in England’s top flight, following a six-game unbeaten run in the league.
So, as the Toon’s official Twitter account shared the link to these images from training to help their fans to ‘prepare’ for Wednesday’s game, the tweet caught the attention of plenty of Toon fans who reacted to the post.
? The best images from yesterday's training session as #NUFC prepare for this evening's game!
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) July 8, 2020
Toon manager Steve Bruce shared that both Allan Saint-Maximin and Miguel Almiron were doubts for Wednesday’s game in his pre-match press conference ahead of the fixture, however, both players were spotted by some Newcastle fans in these training images and these fans shared their thoughts on the two players’ participation in training following the injury news that recently emerged about them.
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ASM and Miggy are there – just shows they’re being rested because they’re tired
— jonny (@jgray2706) July 8, 2020
Asm and miggy both took part in training yesterday… even if they are fitter then Monday they should be kept out imo #nufc https://t.co/Ve19g1QIgE
— Megatoon1892 (@megatoon1892) July 8, 2020
Other Newcastle supporters opted to discuss Christian Atsu in response to these training images, with some sharing concern over his participation in training and one Toon fan stating that he “should be nowhere near the first team.”
seeing so many atsu photos is making me quite worried
— (????)? ? Mason.Ferrier ? (@AIIanSaintMax) July 8, 2020
please don’t play Atsu
— joe (@nufcrichys) July 8, 2020
Should Christian Atsu be at Newcastle United next season?YES
NO
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Atsu is gonna play then ????
— Ash (@Ashe721) July 8, 2020
Atsu should be nowhere near the first team imo he’s very poor, lacks quality and I question his hunger
— Chris Cossey (@Cosseycj) July 8, 2020
Considering that Bruce had claimed that both Almiron and Saint-Maximin were “struggling” ahead of Wednesday’s game against Manchester City, it may be understandable why their participation in training was a hot topic of discussion for some Magpies fans.
Additionally, some of these Toon supporters were quite critical of Atsu, which may be understandable considering that he failed to score a single Premier League goal this term ahead of Wednesday’s game with City. However, prior to Wednesday’s game, only Saint-Maximin and Andy Carroll provided more Premier League assists for the Toon than Atsu this term and with that in mind, some of these Newcastle supporters might have been overly-critical of the Ghanaian.