The Brazilian defender took to social media to deny the bizarre claims
Brazilian defender Marcelo has denied reports claiming he was released by Lyon because he kept farting in the dressing room and laughing about it.
The extraordinary claim was made in French daily l’Equipe, who said Marcelo’s unwelcome fluctuance did not go down too well with sporting director Juninho, who decided to release him from the squad.
That suggestion has been dismissed by the 34-year-old, who wrote a rare post on social media to deny it was true.
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What did Marcelo say about the dressing room farting claims?
Marcelo had already been dropped to the reserves following a particularly poor performance in a 3-0 defeat at Angers in August.
However, it is claimed Lyon were then further incensed by what they called “inappropriate behaviour” by the player, later claimed to be his jovial breaking of wind.
Juninho reportedly consulted with manager Peter Bosz and agreed to let the defender go, with Marcelo leaving in January to join Bordeaux.
Marcelo, though, took to Twitter to empathically deny the farting reports.
Having not tweeted anything since October he has since posted: "Thanks to l’Equipe, after a long time, I have to come back to Twitter to deny all the allegations. Journalism nowadays is a joke!”
Juninho also appeared to laugh off the claims in a rather bizarre tweet littered with laughing emojis.
“See, I told you defender has to fart loud, long and stinky! Yours was only loud so they were weak!,” wrote the former midfielder.
Balondoor
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Was it the Not Fart article of contract they triggered?🌬
DonMdevah
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The word is 'flatulence' AF. Use a spell check when copying othe peoples articles. Fluctuance means moving in waves and makes no sense within the context of this article.
Does it even matter?
besacelmpy
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The word is 'flatulence' AF. Use a spell check when copying othe peoples articles. Fluctuance means moving in waves and makes no sense within the context of this article.
nodcdeilnu
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I DIDN'T KNO THE GUY UNTIL THE STORY BEGAN
DANIELORD
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all football trying to get alot news reading by stating the name MARCELO only,so that we think that it's our MARCELO[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Always_in_my_heart
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If we have to start questioning what the news says these days,I don't think we are safe anymore.
HugoDarlington
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The only marcelo I view is marcelo Vieira. All football you can do better and I can't even save a picture or post a picture
Mohannadblancos
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His fart smell is much better than the smell of racism against black !