Man City cheekily welcome Vinicius Jr before fans unveil brutal ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ tifo amid Ballon d’Or drama

MANCHESTER CITY cheekily reminded Vinicius Jr of the Ballon d'Or saga with a brutal Oasis-inspired banner.

City prima Rodri won the prestigious grant fixed to the world's champion subordinate up of the Real Madrid antheral backmost successful October.

Los Blancos were near fuming implicit the snub and decided each members of the nine would not be the glamorous ceremonial successful protest.

Ahead of tonight's Champions League play-off clash betwixt City and Real Madrid, the hosts cleverly taunted Vinicius.

The Premier League champions posted a drawback of their opponents arriving astatine the Etihad, which included a representation of the Brazilian winger walking into the stadium.

Eagle-eyed fans noticed helium was cheekily pictured adjacent to a show of Rodri kissing the iconic Ballon d'Or trophy.

Supporters recovered it hilarious, with 1 saying: "I saw what you did here."

Another added: "We each spot it, right?"

The taunting did not halt determination arsenic City fans welcomed Vinicius to the transportation up of kick-off with a brutal tifo.

Those sat adjacent to the distant extremity down the extremity held up a banner of Rodri with the trophy on with the Oasis lyrics: "Stop crying your bosom out."

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City supporters called it "superb" and "phenomenal" - but others were disquieted it was "all the information Real needs".

A defiant Vinicius, who was booed by City fans, tweeted astatine the clip of the boycott: "I'll bash it 10x if I person to. They're not ready."

And helium volition beryllium hopeless to get 1 implicit the injured Rodri arsenic helium adjacent reportedly had a Ballon d'Or enactment planned for 50 radical to celebrate.

Meanwhile, Nike had to scrap the specially designed boots they made and Real Madrid TV were forced to ditch the 5 hours of programming they had successful spot to to commemorate the success.

The nine were fiercely criticised for not showing up to the ceremonial but brag Carlo Ancelotti doubled down up of tonight's game, saying: "I don't deliberation it was the incorrect decision.

"We thought Vini was the victor of the Ballon d'Or.

"It doesn't mean we don't respect Rodri due to the fact that helium is simply a fantastic player. I deliberation Rodri deserved to triumph it the twelvemonth before."

Pep Guardiola said determination was "absolutely not" immoderate resentment astatine Real implicit the incident.