Mykhaylo Mudryk has been criticised after he uploaded a video of an elderly man working out at the gym.
Mudryk, 22, has struggled since his £87m move to Chelsea from Shakhtar Donetsk, failing to score in 16 matches in all competitions.
He has often found himself out of the starting XI under Frank Lampard and was on the bench for the Blues' trip to Manchester City on Sunday.
However, the Ukrainian has come under the spotlight once again after appearing to mock a man at the gym. On Tuesday, Mudryk uploaded a video of an elderly man on a rowing machine. He blurred part of his body out, while including a question mark on the Instagram story.
Mudryk has received a lot of backlash on Twitter.
Social media personality Joey Swoll, who refers to himself as the 'CEO of Gym Positivity' and regularly calls out inappropriate behaviour at gyms to over 600,000 Twitter followers, said: "So you see that man at the gym working hard, trying to better himself with the trainer. He is in an embarrassing situation, where, yes, he is a little exposed.
"But you decide to take a video of them to post on social media - all for attention. Really? What the f*** is wrong with you? You're a professional soccer player, you play for Chelsea in the Premier League, is this how you want to represent yourself and your team?"
As for Chelsea, they face Manchester United in their penultimate game of the season. The Blues were beaten at Manchester City on Sunday and can no longer finish in the top-half.
Speaking after his side's defeat at the Etihad Stadium, interim boss Frank Lampard admitted the Premier League is getting a lot more challenging.
"The Premier League is getting tougher, we’ve felt that this year and we’ve felt things we need to improve for next year," he said. "There’s a lot of work to be done. There’s clearly talent in the squad, making a lack of stability in the squad, maybe an imbalance in the squad. So those things are maybe club issue and every player needs to really get the work on to see if they can get us back to where we want to be."
Gary Neville added: "Every time I look at Frank Lampard he’s got a look of a manager who doesn’t like his players. Chelsea need the end of the season, badly. I think he needs to change these players’ mentality from where it has been for the last few months.
"Then he needs to hope the break they get in the summer gives them a rest mentally to come back fresh next season under the new manager."
Mauricio Pochettino is set to take over as the new Chelsea manager at the end of the season. The Argentine has been out of work since his departure from Paris Saint-Germain last summer.
