‘Short stupid memories’ - Bruno Guimaraes posts fiery reply to Newcastle United ‘criticism’

The Magpies fell to a narrow 1-0 defeat courtesy of a first-half strike by Julian Alvarez. Despite the defeat now making it 15 league defeats in a row for Newcastle at the Etihad Stadium, it was an encouraging performance from Eddie Howe’s side.

However, as always in the modern game following a defeat, some performances came under great scrutiny on social media post-match. NUFC360 on X posed these questions to their followers following Saturday’s defeat, writing: ‘Is it too early in the season to start focusing blame onto individual players? Was there an overreaction to the loss to Man City?’ along with photos of Miguel Almiron, Joelinton, Bruno Guimaraes and Dan Burn.

In a now deleted tweet, Guimaraes fired back at the question, replying: ‘Is this serious? We are in champions league football we lost against maybe one of the best teams in the world and we have a big win and lost one game! Support in the best moment is easy! Short stupid memories you all have look what we have done for the team this 1 year and half’.

The Brazilian deleted the reply just minutes after posting it and before NUFC360 responded with: ‘We are with you @brunoog97, this post was a way to try and focus on the craziness of those trying to find players to blame after two games. I’m sorry if this was not expressed on that manner. NUFC360 is behind all of our players.’

Guimaraes and Newcastle’s task doesn’t get much easier this weekend when they welcome Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool to St James’ Park.