Celtic fan hits Diomande hard after Corum debut with this beauty, ‘Still saying disappointed and you’ve moved clubs!’

Mohamed Diomande made his debut for Corum FK on Friday night, away at Galatasaray, and came within a minute of a famous win.

Victor Osimhen had other ideas, equalising on 90 minutes to make it 2-2.

His new teammate Alexandros Kyziridis managed to score and get himself sent off in the same evening, which is some going.

And afterwards, Diomande did what every footballer now does, and posted about it on Instagram.

Here is what the former Ibrox midfielder had to say:

Disappointed not to get the 3 points, but happy to have made my first appearance for Çorum. We keep going.

Fair enough.

A point away at Galatasaray in your first game for a newly promoted side is not the worst night’s work.

But of course, this is social media, and there is always somebody waiting under the post.

Two of them had a go at him, and to be fair to Diomande, he dealt with both of them beautifully.

One told him, ‘No’ much changed.’

Diomande came back with, ‘No’ much changed, except I changed clubs, changed countries and still have you in my comments.’

‘Move on, mate.’

Another went with, ‘Same s***, different day.’

And according to the Scottish Sun, his reply to that one was, ‘Same s***, different day, and yet you’re still watching every day.’

‘At this point, I must be your favourite player.’

I’ll be honest with you, both of those are good.

I have no interest in pretending otherwise just because of the shirt he used to wear.

If you are going to leave the country and somebody follows you into your comments section to tell you nothing has changed, you have earned the right to point out that quite a lot has.

He won both of those exchanges, and he won them without swearing at anybody.

Then again, that is the thing about picking your battles.

Diomande picked the two easiest ones in the whole comment section.

Because the line that actually cut him was posted by a Celtic supporter, and he never went near it.

Scroll the post and you will find a Celtic profile picture beside the name patrickrooney.1888.

The 1888 gives the game away, obviously.

And what he wrote was this: ‘Still saying disappointed and you’ve moved clubs’.

That’s it.

No swearing, no abuse, no ‘same s***, different day’.

Just eight words that quietly point out something Diomande cannot answer with a clever comeback.

Because he is right, isn’t he?

Diomande told his critic that he changed clubs and he changed countries.

He did.

What he didn’t change was the vocabulary.

‘Disappointed’ is the word that followed that club around for the entire two and a half years he was there.

Disappointed in Europe.

Disappointed at Hampden.

Disappointed in the league, every single season, and more often than not by a distance.

And now here he is in the Turkish Super Lig, in a completely different country, reaching for the exact same word after 90 minutes.

Make no mistake, that is a far better line than anything the two other fans came up with, and it is the one he left alone.

Which tells you he read it.

You always read the one that lands.

Now, in fairness to everybody involved, I should point out that this was not a pile-on.

The vast majority of those 174 comments are people wishing him well.

There is a French one telling him good luck.

There are Turkish supporters telling him they are delighted to have him in their country and their team.

There is even a Scottish account in there with, ‘Good luck at your new club Dio’ and a blue heart.

The post has 15.4 thousand likes.

Most people were perfectly nice about it, and Diomande will have seen that too.

One Celtic fan just happened to find the seam.

That is usually how it works.

The rest of it is just noise, and the man himself clearly knows the difference between noise and a point well made.

There was one other thing in all this that raised a smile.

When his exit was confirmed a few days earlier, Diomande posted the full farewell.

An honour to wear the shirt, a special club, a special thank you to the fans who supported him, and then the sign-off.

‘Once a R*****r, always a R*****r.’

Two and a half years, and off to a newly promoted side in Turkey for around £4.5 million.

Apparently that is what ‘always’ means these days.

No doubt they’ll be putting that one on a flag.

Look, I have no real problem with Diomande.

He was one of the better ones over there.

He never gave us any grief, and he has gone off to make a living somewhere new.

Good luck to him.

But when a man tells you he changed clubs and changed countries, and the very next line of his own post is the word ‘disappointed’, somebody was always going to notice.

It just turned out to be one of ours.

Still saying disappointed…

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