PHOTO: Barcelona New Boy Paulinho Done Dirty After Old 'Pro-Real Madrid' Tweet Surfaces Online

It's safe to say Barcelona's new signing Paulinho hasn't exactly been welcomed with open arms to the club by its supporters.

The 29-year-old recently completed a move from Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande to the Nou Camp for a fee believed to be around €40m.

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The move has not gone down at all well, given the standard of league the midfielder has been playing in for the past two seasons - and before that, he flopped for Tottenham in the Premier League.

Then one remembers the fact that Barca just lost Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain in a world record £198m deal, and Luis Suarez is injured for the next five weeks, and the club are struggling to sign Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele.

Barca fans are not having a great time of things at the moment, and their new signing has now been done dirty by an old tweet he wrote whilst watching an El Clasico.

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In 2013, the then-Spurs man appeared to have tweeted (via Soccer Infomania) his support for arch rivals Real Madrid, whilst cursing his current team.

Here's hoping he hits a debut hat-trick against Real Betis on Sunday evening, because it's been a pretty awful start so far for the Brazilian.