Rising up through the academy ranks at Chelsea, Mason Mount would have been prepped for the nastier side of superstardom. The tirades of criticism that follow poor performances and the keyboard warriors on Twitter.
How to deal with being called the 'teacher's pet' probably didn't come up on the course.
Yet that was the ludicrous situation the 21-year-old midfielder found himself earlier this season when he had the audacity to play more minutes for England than Jack Grealish.
Mount replied to the Fabregas tweet to say the Spanish midfielder was his inspiration
Fans - especially Aston Villa fans - felt that Gareth Southgate was unfairly favouring the clean cut, reliable Mount over the more maverick and exciting Grealish, making their feelings known with a barrage of social media memes from the genuinely funny to the downright crude.