Chris12
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AC Milan are doing awful this yr
Mario Balotelli - Gone to the Dippers
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Barry Mead
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Could prove an inspired signing, he's crazy but equally a hell of a good player
THFCSPURS19
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His release clause was €30m which at the time was £26m. Ever heard of conversion rates changing???
Indisguise
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Undoubtedly a great player but it's the "crazy" side of him that's worrying. His kind of crazy could unsettle the team and we've had our fair share of being unsettled.
EnfieldYiddo
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I'd take him, won't happen though
Barry Mead
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Of course but look at Cantona another crazy player, he was just the catalyst that United needed. It's a gamble for sure-and because of that I don't think the price would be as high as they are speculating, but somewhere along the way Balotelli might just decide to really focus on his game and then he could be an amazing asset for whoever he plays for
EJWTartanSpur
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I'm not sure it is entirely relevant. He has been unhappy at every club he has played for now. Milan was the club he supported as a kid, his move to them was seen as a homecoming and touted as being the only place he wanted to go and the only place that he could be happy. He has everything there - the city he lived in for a long time, his childhood team, he is the star man, his mates around him etc etc and I'll bet he won't find more favourable conditions anywhere else in the world in terms of freedom, treatment by his club, familiarity.
He has played for the best team in Italy that were winning trophies each season, yet his attitude meant he never actually played well for more than 1-2 matches at a time and eventually caused him to be sidelined. Displayed no want at all to apply himself and became unhappy and unsettled.
He has played for the richest team in the world, in the strongest league, being paid a fortune, where his fans loved him and the media took to him, yet he wasn't happy.
He is now at his boyhood club where every favourable condition conceivable has been met to make him happy, yet he is not happy.
Where exactly is he ever going to be happy at and not become a distraction and a problem ?
His only chance is to stick it out at Milan, try and be a leader and help them turn it around.
Yet, I don't think he will do that because I doubt he possesses the character. He will likely agitate for a move, go somewhere else, be entertaining for a short while then become unsettled and waste another clubs money. This is the guy that walked up to Ronaldo after a game and said ' C Ronaldo is good, but Balotelli is better'. The guy hadn't even strung together 5 good games in a row for Inter at this point, yet he had the gaul and arrogance to say that and probably the stupidity to believe it as well. I'd imagine he has no idea what hard work is, and no possible idea or conception over how hard Ronaldo worked at his game for many many years and how much time he put in on the training ground to get to where he is.
Sad as it is, some people don't have the mentality to be a professional sportsman and/or live up to the latent ability that they have.
I said this a long long time ago, but Balotelli, imo, will never be a solid/consistent/productive talent anywhere. He will waste his career and drift around like a nomad before fading into obscurity. His only chance is at Milan imo even if he is too stupid to know it himself. Personally, I thought Mancini had lost his mind when he bought him for City.
Of course, I may turn out to be wrong, but I in no way whatsoever would want us to waste our money on a transfer fee and wages for such boneheaded malcontent.
Indisguise
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Brilliant post mate. Sums it up perfectly.
TheAmerican
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"AC Milan firmly and absolutely deny statements that have been attributed to the chairman about Mario Balotelli being put on the transfer list," the Serie A club's statement said.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25536005
The rumour of him leaving was started from a bs quote. I do not think he is moving, he is their future.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25536005
The rumour of him leaving was started from a bs quote. I do not think he is moving, he is their future.
Curtis Peterson
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This isn't going to happen, but I'd certainly be torn. On one hand, he's a great player. On the other, he's an immature ass and having both him and Adebayor would leave us with two moody strikers. And I can never forgive him for the stomp on Parker.
All geniuses behave rather unpredictably. That's why opponents don't know how to stop them.
freeeki
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I remember Balotelli driving down Deansgate in Manchester the week before Christmas, dressed as Santa, throwing money out his window at people.
And who can forget the time he wandered into a pub in Chorlton and bought the entire pub a drink?
The guy's a nutter and he scores goals. I'd love him at Spurs.
And who can forget the time he wandered into a pub in Chorlton and bought the entire pub a drink?
The guy's a nutter and he scores goals. I'd love him at Spurs.
Syn_13
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With Soldado and Balotelli, we'd win all the penalty shootouts!
Balotelli's missed a couple this year. This is such a stupid rumour though.
C0YS
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Most players of his quality would be unhappy at a team which is 13th in the table and within 5 points from the drop. Though in fairness it is his childhood team.
