It’s not a good time to be a Manchester United fan at the moment.
Having to watch your blue rivals run rampant in the Premier League would be bad enough as it is, but when your own side produces such a turgid and defensively disastrous performance as the Red Devils lost to Brighton & Hove Albion in the second game of the 2018/19 season, emotions are at a high.
One particular Manchester United star incurred the wrath of several fans following the activity on his social media account on Monday afternoon.
The Manchester Evening News picks up on Alexis Sánchez’s Twitter feed made in the aftermath of that capitulation, which has lead to a moderate backlash on the social media site.
Sánchez, a January acquisition from Arsenal, was considered a coup for Manchester United with him choosing Old Trafford after a long-gestating yet ultimately failed bid coming from the Etihad, and after a torrid second half of the season playing for the red side of Manchester, the 29 year-old certainly shown glimpses of previous form with some solid pre-season performances.
The Chilean missed the match at the Amex Stadium yesterday through injury and did not travel down with the team to the south-coast.
Instead, following United’s 3-2 loss to the Seagulls, Sánchez took to Twitter to promote his new clothing line via an extremely strange marketing video, prompting fans to slate their player and his marketing team’s actions during a time when wounds were still fresh from their side’s dropped points.
Whilst the images of his new fashion range are still available to view, Sánchez has decided to delete the two posts from Twitter, following the response from angered supporters, with comments ranging from instructing him to consider his timing more carefully in the future, to outright ordering him to quit football.
And whilst it is unlikely the United star isn’t directly at fault for the ill-timed tweets, there’s a great deal of responsibility he should shoulder when frustrations among the United contingent are at boiling point, and Sánchez will be expected to step up for the visit from Tottenham Hotspur next Monday should he be deemed fit.
