straight to your inboxPep Guardiola has admitted that Manchester City star Bernardo Silva 'struggled' in the aftermath of his ban last season over an offensive tweet.Bernardo was suspended for one game in November, 2019, after he compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to a character on a packet of Conguitos chocolates in a social media post.
The Portuguese was also fined £50,000 and had to complete a face-to-face education course although the FA’s regulatory commission believed he "did not have any knowledge of the historical connotations of the Conguitos character" and accepted that the post was “not intended by him to be either racist or offensive in any way."However, as the tweet was posted to an “extensive public audience” it was judged to.
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