Jonathan Viera, a long-time friend of the Yellows fans, adds fuel to the fire at UD Las Palmas with a tweet.
We were few and far between, and grandma gave birth. To the sporting drama of UD Las Palmas, which didn't have the courage to earn a single point in its last home game in the top flight of Spanish football, is now added the morbidity of off-sport, and it's coming from none other than an old acquaintance: Jonathan Viera.
The veteran footballer, who He left the club halfway through last season Due to disagreements with the former Yellows coach, García Pimienta, he published a message on social media on Thursday that left Yellows fans baffled: “Then we killed the Tana, Roque Mesa, David Simón (...) what simpletons!”.
The tweet, posted Thursday at 17:51 p.m., didn't seem to make much sense, but many fans managed to decipher the message on Friday after the announcement of the Unión Deportiva squad for this Saturday's match against RCD Espanyol.
Fabio Silva's absence from the squad (and in the final stretch of the season) appears to have been the trigger for Viera's tweet. Since news of Fabio Silva's injury, which ruled the Portuguese player out for the remainder of the season, became known, various sectors of the fan base speculated that it was a "technical" move by Silva's owner, Wolverhampton, to secure the player's sale after his loan at the Yellows ended.
A theory that for many (including Viera) was confirmed this week, when it was leaked that Fabio Silva had already said goodbye to his teammates and had already left the island to join the Portugal U21 national team.
Viera's message didn't leave much room for the imagination; the La Feria official denounced how the fans accepted without much complaint that Silva had "disappeared" in a crucial final stretch of the season for the team, yet how the fans themselves had attacked youth players in similar situations in previous years.
Coincidentally or not, Viera's tweet comes just as his name is being talked about again for a return to Unión Deportiva Las Palmas after his time at UD Almería and a new Asian adventure with Khor Fakkan Club in the United Arab Emirates and Johor Darul Takzim FC in Malaysia, the current club where he shares a dressing room with other old UDLP acquaintances: Roque Mesa and Jesé.
UD Las Palmas closed out their LaLiga EA Sports campaign this Saturday with a 2-0 defeat to RCD Espanyol at the RCDE Stadium, in a match that had no ranking significance but was filled with sadness. With a lineup packed with youth players, Diego Martínez gave the youngsters minutes in a bitter farewell. The season ended in dismal fashion for the Yellows, who confirmed their relegation to the Second Division after a second half of the season to forget.
