It’s never a good week when your detractors range from Gary Neville all the way to Joey Swoll.
But that was Mykhailo Mudryk’s reality this week as the Chelsea attacker drew criticism for his poor performance against Manchester United as well as his gym shaming of an old guy who let his trousers dip a little too low.
It all started when Mudryk spotted the elderly gentleman on a rowing machine and posted a video to his Instagram stories. That’s when Mr. Swoll, an online personality with exceptional muscles, sprang into action.
“So you see that man at the gym working hard trying to better himself with a trainer, he’s in an embarrassing situation, yes, he’s a little exposed, and you decide, ‘Hey, let me take a video of it to post on social media to make fun of him all for attention’ — really?” Swoll said in a (NSFW) Twitter video.
“You’re a professional soccer player and you play for Chelsea in the Premier League, is this how you want to represent yourself and your team?”
Later that week, Mudryk also struggled as a professional soccer player for Chelsea in the Premier League, where he’s still searching for his first goal after a €100 million transfer from Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Ukrainian could barely make contact with a clear first-half chance on Thursday against Manchester United and after another poor touch, Neville was exasperated.
“Oh my goodness, how many times have we seen that in the first half? So rigid and stiff on the ball,” Neville said during his commentary for Sky Sports. “It’s so heavy that touch its unbelievable. That is just confidence, or a lack of it.
“It’s like he hasn’t got a picture of what he’s going to do with it before he receives it. It’s all a bit fast in his head.”
Mudryk will hopefully have better days ahead, filled with plenty of goals and gym sessions where he’s the only protagonist of his videos.
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