“It might get me into trouble”

Toney erupted after Al Ahli's draw with Al Fayha (1-1). The English international and his teammates blamed the failure to award no less than 3 clear penalties!

“When we tried to talk to the referee, he told us to focus on the African Champions League. How can the referee say such a thing?!”, wondered Toney, who in this game scored his 27th goal of the season.

Ivan Toney: “I'm a man who calls a spade a spade”

He offered to go even further: “If you want, I can do it. It might get me into trouble, but I'm a man who calls things out. Until now it would have been clear penalties, but we entered a decisive phase of the season and everything changed.”

Asked by a reporter who would benefit from refereeing errors, Toney replied: “We know who. Who are we following in the rankings?“. Then on Instagram, he continued: “It's incredible how you can miss such things at crucial moments or choose to close your eyes.

It is clear what is being influenced here. And the fact that the referee told us to focus on another competition while the VAR was analyzing a phase is beyond me“.

Al Ahli is 3rd in the table, 4 points behind leaders Al Nassr, Cristiano Ronaldo's team, who also have a game less played. In second position is Al Hilal, with 68 points.

Teammate Galeno agrees: “They want to give the trophy to one person”

Toney muses that he's probably “the bad guy for telling the truth and pointing out questionable decisions or crappy referees.” But he is not alone. His teammate Galeno thinks the same and took the accusations further: “They want to eliminate us from the title fight by any meansthey want to give the trophy to one person, a total lack of respect for our club”.

Al-Ahli called the refereeing decisions in the Al Fayha match “unacceptable” and demanded explanations for each decision, as well as audio recordings of communications between match officials and between the referee and players.