Ivan Toney takes a swipe at ‘cringey’ Gabriel Magalhaes over ‘Nice kick about with the boys’ tweet

England new boy Ivan Toney takes a swipe at ‘cringey’ Gabriel Magalhaes after Arsenal defender repeated his ‘nice kick about with the boys’ tweet following 3-0 victory over Brentford.

Ivan Toney has labelled Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhaes ‘cringey’ after he tweeted following the Gunners win at Brentford on Sunday.

Arsenal eased to a 3-0 victory to return to the top of the Premier League as goals from William Saliba, Gabriel Jesus and Fabio Vieira wrapped up a comfortable three points for Mikel Arteta’s side.

It was a markedly different result from the corresponding fixture last season, where Brentford won 2-0 in their first-ever Premier League game.

After that win, Toney had tweeted ‘Nice kick about with the boys’, with Arteta showing the message to his players before the reverse fixture at the Emirates Stadium.

‘I think once was funny, second time was a bit cringey,’ he joked. ‘I bit my tongue, I wanted to reply and wanted to nibble.

‘But fair play to them, they are a different Arsenal side to the one we played before.’

Toney will be hoping to tweet about his England debut after earning his first call-up following a fine start to the campaign with the Bees.

England travel to Milan to face Italy in the Nations League on Friday before hosting Germany at Wembley three days later.