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Jesse Lingard’s bitterly disappointing begin to life in Korean soccer has seen an enormous drop in social media followers.
The previous United participant made the controversial determination to sit down out six months of the season after leaving Nottingham Forest final summer season, rejecting a plethora of golf equipment within the Premier League and Championship.
Then the stunning information broke that the 31 12 months outdated had agreed a deal to signal for FC Seoul within the Okay-League in South Korea.
He spoke of his pleasure on the transfer and a report dwelling attendance got here out to witness his dwelling debut within the Korean capital.
Nevertheless, Lingard suffered a debut from hell as he was booed onto the pitch by away followers, picked up a yellow card and his new facet fell to a 2-0 defeat.
The England worldwide has additionally been poor in subsequent video games and confronted some harsh phrases from his coach, Kim Gi-dong, who gave a stinging critique of Lingard’s efficiency, claiming the participant didn’t struggle or run through the sport.
In actual fact, he was not even within the squad for FC Seoul’s sport in opposition to Daegu earlier in the present day.
The poor kind has additionally begun to hit the participant in off the sector issues as effectively.
The Solar reviews that he “has seen 1000’s of followers unfollow him as his South Korea nightmare continues”.
“His Instagram account misplaced 36,000 followers … between March 2 and April 2. This comes after a 59,191 enhance in his first month after signing for FC Seoul” based on knowledge obtained from KingCasinoBonus and SocialBlade.
This may occasionally not appear too essential within the grand scheme of issues however Lingard locations nice significance on his picture and it has been speculated that the transfer to Korea was largely right down to monetary alternative to construct his model in an financial powerhouse like Seoul.
The Englishman has 9.4 million followers on the social media platform and he has been criticised quite a few instances previously for paying extra consideration to rising his “JLingz” model than specializing in his performances on the pitch.
What is obvious to see is that Lingard has little possibility however to work as onerous as doable to show round his begin to life in Korea, whether or not that be for his sporting or enterprise pursuits.
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