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Antonio Barreca drew the ire of Newcastle fans with a post on social media on Thursday, but all is not quite as it seems.
Barreca’s loan move to Newcastle has turned out to be a pretty bizarre one, as the Monaco ace has featured in just four minutes of Premier League action.
The 24 year-old joined the club in January for the rest of the season, per BBC, and left-back was a position Rafael Benitez was short of quality in, so it made perfect sense.
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However, Matt Ritchie is now the clear first choice on the left side of Benitez’s back five, leaving the Italian out in the cold.
And Barreca angered several Newcastle fans on social media on Thursday, posting a training picture asking the club if they had forgotten about him, which you can see here, and take a look at some of the reactions below.
The defender has since edited the post to change the caption, but it appears the original line was misinterpreted anyway.
Barreca appears to have been jokingly asking the club why he wasn’t included in the training pictures they released, rather than complaining about a lack of playing time. He has since been added to the training pictures, so it all adds up.
Fans were well within their rights to be annoyed by the original post, but it was nothing more than a misunderstanding.
Whether or not Benitez actually has forgotten about the Italian is another matter entirely…