According to a survey, Harry Maguire of Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two Premier League players who receive the most abuse on Twitter.

In the first half of last season, according to a survey by the Alan Turing Institute and Ofcom, Maguire received 8,954 nasty tweets, roughly 6,400 more than the next player on the list, Marcus Rashford, while Ronaldo received 12,520.

Ronaldo, Maguire, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Fred, Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba, and David De Gea were all members of United last season, when they finished sixth in the league and missed out on the Champions League. They were also eight of the ten players that faced the harshest backlash.

Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur, who ranks fifth on the list with 2,127 hateful tweets thrown at him, and Jack Grealish, who joined Manchester City in a British-record £100 million move last year and received 1,538 hateful posts, are the other two players in the top 10.

The study, which examines the level of hostility football players experience on social media, discovered there was a boom in activity when Ronaldo transferred from Juventus to United in August of last year and when Maguire apologized following his team’s derby loss to City in November.

Ronaldo has made headlines this summer after submitting a transfer request to leave Old Trafford, while Maguire has been booed by United and England fans in recent months, with his club manager Erik ten Hag saying that the only way he could beat those critics was through his performances.

Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom’s group director for broadcasting and online content, said: “These findings shed light on a dark side to the beautiful game.

“Online abuse has no place in sport, nor in wider society, and tackling it requires a team effort.”

The study involved analysis of 2.3 million tweets, of which nearly 60,000 were found to be abusive. Seven in 10 Premier League players were found to be victims of online abuse.

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