Balotelli signs for Liverpool - Official

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He's done nothing at any point in his career, ever, to suggest he's gonna be radically different from the sulky, lazy twat he's been so far this season.

He'll score more goals, sure. Mainly pens. The occasional moment of brilliance. Some random and pointless thuggery. And lots and lots of playing football like he hates the game.

The fact he is so highly rated by people on here whose opinions I usually respect puzzles the hell out of me. Will be gone in the summer. If not sooner.
 
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shaggy said:
Anelka is a great shout when comparing him to a different striker ability wise. Won't become much more than a solid striker.
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Anelka was by far a better striker than Balotelli and you're doing him a disservice comparing the two.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
There's a similarity in that neither of them ever seem to get any pleasure out of the game. Anelka was a lot more professional, though.
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You only have to see Balotelli's reaction to getting subbed against Napoli to see how much he does actually care. Don't let his lack of celebration deceive you. His laziness and poor work ethic are grossly exaggerated. He is never going to be a Tevez like player who constantly harangues the opposition but he doesn't have to be. Basically, he needs the team behind him to play well and when they are he can be lethal. When the team isn't playing well he becomes ineffective and an easy target for criticism.
 
Said it at the time to a friend at work, im absolutely delighted that they essentially replaced Suarez with Balotelli, Lambert and Lallana.

Whilst you sometimes forget hes only 24, he seems like a player that you have when things are going right.
When things are going wrong or not working full flow, id rather have Borini than him.
 
I still don't get why he refuses to move off the ball. It's ridiculous how he thinks he's somehow going to be a constant goal threat despite standing in the same play all the damn time. He needs Some on form RVP tapes to knock him into order.
 
I vaguely remember their fans laughing at the price tag for Welbz and that they got Balotelli instead ... Funny isn't it.
 
Welbeck is RVN like finisher compared to Balotelli. I believe Suarez would already be 10goals striker if he had the chances Balloteli had, some absolutely blatant misses. To make himself a chance is a good quality but he seriously needs to get better at finishing. Anyway no doubt he is talented but he will never be a top player due to his attitude, he reminds me of Taarabt..
 
Oooops.

What's going to be Rodgers' excuse today though? Not sure how these Scouse fellas brains work? Do you just revert back to form and blame the ref?

Having said that, they'll probably get two penalties today.
 
After the way Rodgers was talking about him yesterday, it's not a shock to see him dropped. He wasn't exactly very complimentary about him yesterday. I reckon Lambert will probably out-perform Ballotelli too. He'll at least put more effort into the game.
 
It's only a matter of time before this move turns very sour. The egos of Rodgers and Balotelli are already looking likely to clash.
 
Robbie Boy said:
It's only a matter of time before this move turns very sour. The egos of Rodgers and Balotelli are already looking likely to clash.
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what type of manager says "*insert player name here* was the best we could get"?? you wanted him so you make it work. You dont imply that its not working bc "the players that i wanted weren't available so we had to settle for this one".
 
MUFCpiffgawd said:
what type of manager says "*insert player name here* was the best we could get"?? you wanted him so you make it work. You dont imply that "the players that i wanted weren't available so we had to settle this one".
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It's absolutely bizarre carry on. Rodgers just covering his own egotistical back as-per usual.
 
Robbie Boy said:
It's only a matter of time before this move turns very sour. The egos of Rodgers and Balotelli are already looking likely to clash.
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Regardless of Rodgers egos i think if a man-manager like Jose cant work with him you wonder how Rodgers can. I know people credit him a lot over at the way he handled Suarez, which tbf i think he did great on, but at the end of the day you had a player who wanted to succeed and do well. Balotelli looks like hes just chuffed hes got another big contract...
 
Sparky Rhiwabon said:
He was the Best Player Ever until Andros Townsend took that accolade (now Sterling I believe)
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off topic but Townsend could a good player if he just made better decisions. His 1st, 2nd and 3rd options are always shoot, shoot and shoot some more...:lol:

OneUnited24 said:
Regardless of Rodgers egos i think if a man-manager like Jose cant work with him you wonder how Rodgers can. I know people credit him a lot over at the way he handled Suarez, which tbf i think he did great on, but at the end of the day you had a player who wanted to succeed and do well. Balotelli looks like hes just chuffed hes got another big contract...
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yes but besides missing chances what is Balotelli doing wrong? he's working off the ball way more than i've ever seen him do.
 
OneUnited24 said:
Regardless of Rodgers egos i think if a man-manager like Jose cant work with him you wonder how Rodgers can. I know people credit him a lot over at the way he handled Suarez, which tbf i think he did great on, but at the end of the day you had a player who wanted to succeed and do well. Balotelli looks like hes just chuffed hes got another big contract...
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Balotelli is clearly all about himself and Rodgers will struggle big time to get anything good out of him. His pathetic comments to cover his own back (Rodgers), certainly won't help things.

The sensible thing for Liverpool would have been a loan option up see how things went. Of course, I have no idea if AC would have entertained that idea. Signing him permanently was such a gamble. And not necessarily in a monatery way; more so the problems he might cause and the trouble they will have shipping him out, if it comes to that.
 
Robbie Boy said:
The sensible thing for Liverpool would have been a loan option up see how things went. Of course, I have no idea if AC would have entertained that idea. Signing him permanently was such a gamble. And not necessarily in a monatery way; more so the problems he might cause and the trouble they will have shipping him out, if it comes to that.
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I think a loan would have been the smart move but AC Milan needed to get him off the books, he was on big wages and without UCL football they had to trim the fat. I think it was them that insisted he be sold than loaned out.

MUFCpiffgawd said:
yes but besides missing chances what is Balotelli doing wrong? he's working off the ball way more than i've ever seen him do.
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Hes not doing anything wrong per say at the moment but ive just never seen what everyone see in him. Granted he has moments of magic but those moments don't come around enough given the hype he has around him. I just think it was a poor signing who Rodgers hoped would have a Sturridge type impact on the team.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
There's a similarity in that neither of them ever seem to get any pleasure out of the game. Anelka was a lot more professional, though.
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Yeah I would hate a player like Balotelli playing at my club.

Arrogant players are interesting when they've got drive. Balotelli spends most of his time in the pitch sulking, angry or disinterested.
 
To be fair to Balotelli he has been working harder than we're used to seeing from him so there's been effort from his side.
 
He doesn't seem to be doing what the team needs him to do, though, and I'm not talking about scoring goals. Running a lot is all well and good, but it looks like he's just kind of doing his own thing without regard for how that suits the team. It's as if Rodgers sat eleven players down and told them how to play together, but Balotelli decides to play in a different way. He can look like a hard worker doing that, but he's just standing there when he needs to make runs, and his movement just doesn't match what it appears the other players expect of him.
 
Dropped for Lambert :lol::lol:

So much for the 'he's better then Welbeck' brigade. Is he f*ck.
 
MUFCpiffgawd said:
off topic but Townsend could a good player if he just made better decisions. His 1st, 2nd and 3rd options are always shoot, shoot and shoot some more...:lol:


yes but besides missing chances what is Balotelli doing wrong? he's working off the ball way more than i've ever seen him do.
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There is no "just" in making better decisions, this trait separates shit players from good ones. It makes for a huge difference
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Yeah I would hate a player like Balotelli playing at my club.

Arrogant players are interesting when they've got drive. Balotelli spends most of his time in the pitch sulking, angry or disinterested.
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Agree. He's an ego without the application or discipline, which is the reason he is more often a hindrance than a help to his team. He has the talent, but he just can't seem to combine that with tactical discipline and drive. There's always at least one of these missing from his performances.
 
Globule said:
Agree. He's an ego without the application or discipline, which is the reason he is more often a hindrance than a help to his team. He has the talent, but he just can't seem to combine that with tactical discipline and drive. There's always at least one of these missing from his performances.
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Whats the bet there wont be when he plays against us!
 
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In other news Mario training hard.
My god, he's such a clown, it's ubelivable.
 
Watching them pander to his every move when ultimately he'll end up f*cking off or having to leave the club is soooo sweet.

I feel like Cartman watching Scott Tenerman just about to eat his parents!!!!
 
Interesting to see how he does now with Sturridge back. It might be his last chance to impress as Rodgers could easily use Lallana, Coutinho or Sterling as supporting striker behind Sturridge.

I've seen a few comments that they'd be top of the league if they still had Suarez instead of Balotelli but if they still had Suarez he'd still be serving a ban so that makes no sense.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He seems like a nice enough fellow off the pitch and he's not a cynical, dirty and malicious footballer when he's on the pitch. So don't really get the Suarez comparisons.

What he is, though, is an incredibly lazy, sullen and petulant presence whenever things are going against him. The WC was Balotelli in a nutshell. Unplayable at times, only to put in one of the most shockingly inept and self-indulgent performances of any player in the tournament when his country needed him most. Would love to see him put in those sort of shifts in a Liverpool shirt. This screams of Rogers over-inflated ego getting the better of him. Jose Mourinho can't sort out this character but I can get him back on the straight and narrow through a combination of self-improvement jargon and envelopes with his name in them.
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Boom!

Some of the comments in the first few pages of this thread are looking daft in the extreme based on his Liverpool career so far....
 
Was that the thread that had the majority crying with laughter every time his name was in the papers?

God I hated that thread.

I wonder what Balotelli will do next, when Liverpool inevitably get rid? He doesn't seem to strike me as one who will be happy with a career at a mid-table team (Liverpool jokes aside), would Inter take him back?

I'm genuinely interested in what his next move will be, as this Liverpool one surely won't work out.
 
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