What a waste of money! To think people even thought this would be a good deal for the scousers 
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.Balotelli signs for Liverpool - Official
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All this talk about "he's a talented lad, but he doesn't..."
Maybe he isn't as "talented" as football pundits make out he is.
Maybe he isn't as "talented" as football pundits make out he is.
I cannot understand how people are blaming mario for Liverpool's problem. The only thing you can lay at his door is missing chances. Not much else.
Lovren, Gerrard, Johnson, Mignolet are way bigger issues for Liverpool.
25m pound for Lallana is up there. And many other terrible buys by Rodgers.
To me, that's all he is, I just don't see this great footballer that others do, the major reason he's famous is because of his antics off the field. Hell, they should of bought Jimmy Bullard if they wanted a character.
Jimmy Tarbuck would have been cheaper. Local lad too.
Rodgers is basically dumping all the shit on Balotelli to hide from his own mistakes.
Not surprising really, he's a proper cnut is Rodgers.
Not surprising really, he's a proper cnut is Rodgers.
The guy needs serious therapy. He's really messed up and I'm amazed that Rodgers didn't forsee this. yeah, ok, it's fine to take a risk..but all he had to do was look at his history. In a smaller scale that is why Fergie got rid of Morrison....some players/people are just unhinged and it happens in all professions...
I genuinely don't mean this to sound as sarcastic as it inevitably will, but what's he actually done?
What's the 'this' that Rodgers didn't foresee? Swapping shirts? Telling someone to leave his car alone?
This is all just media nonsense perpetuated by Rodgers and the Liverpool old-boy network to avoid taking responsibility for them doing badly, isn't it?
Well, he's done nothing unexpected, put it like that.
Like I said a while back Rodgers seems to be saying exactly what everyone's thinking regarding Balotelli: It was a punt, not to say a long shot - and, well, here we are. Should he be saying this out loud, though? No, he shouldn't. Whatever tiny chance of Balotelli coming good for Liverpool remains won't survive Rodgers positively alienating the fecker.
Like I said a while back Rodgers seems to be saying exactly what everyone's thinking regarding Balotelli: It was a punt, not to say a long shot - and, well, here we are. Should he be saying this out loud, though? No, he shouldn't. Whatever tiny chance of Balotelli coming good for Liverpool remains won't survive Rodgers positively alienating the fecker.
I almost feel sorry for him.
Signing of the season 
Will he actually get a league goal?
What an awful player, he's worse than Fellaini.
Why always him?
Didn't connect with two headed chances, four fouls after a yellow, flopped to try and win a penalty, missed a chance to win it in the last minute from 3 yards out.
1 goal in 23 PL games.
Someone needs to make a website.
Rumoured to be up for sale back to Italy....
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/28/football-transfer-rumours
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/28/football-transfer-rumours
Wasn't Mario rumoured to be friends with people within the crime underworld in Naples?
knowing our luck he'll score the winner against us in December and he'll instantly be a fan favorite again.
Yep, we consistently make the most average strikers look like superstars when they play us.
That's not especially difficult, I think I could get one past big Dave with Rojo marking me.
We've definitely jinxed it, he's gonna score against us.
So I hear he scored yesterday?
He's a talented lad isnt he.
He's a talented lad isnt he.
Balotelli and the crime underworld in Naples were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.
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I can imagine the Camora have plenty of footballers for "friends". I cant imagine they are the sought of people who take too kindly to being ignored. Just smile and act polite.
I cannot understand how people are blaming mario for Liverpool's problem. The only thing you can lay at his door is missing chances. Not much else.
Lovren, Gerrard, Johnson, Mignolet are way bigger issues for Liverpool.
25m pound for Lallana is up there. And many other terrible buys by Rodgers.
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If someone replace a Ferrari with a Scoda then he shouldn't blame the latter for not being able to perform like the former. We never blamed Valencia for not being Ronaldo.
Balotelli is a problematic but talented young player. Liverpool were able to get him on a cut price because of his attitude (you barely buy any good players with 15m these days). They should expect him to suddenly become a goal machine like Suarez.
They'll be writing poems about him now won't they?
What baffles me is that he's still regarded as 'talented' by many.
At 24 he's still talented..
At that age he is or he isnt a good player.. Or he's a great player or just average.
It seems he'll still be talented at 33, 34..
At 24 he's still talented..
At that age he is or he isnt a good player.. Or he's a great player or just average.
It seems he'll still be talented at 33, 34..
There's a world of difference between expecting him to be as prolific as Suarez and expecting to perform at the minimum level required from a striker playing for a CL club.
It's his failure to achieve the latter which is why he's got so much stick in this thread.
To be fair to him he was only £16m and reportedly took a paycut to play for Liverpool.... They should definitely be cutting him a bit more slack and looking to build his confidence if you ask me. It's counter productive to bitch and moan about him publically like Rodgers and the Liverpool media are doing.
Almost as funny as them speaking about Lallana as a young talent. He's 26 ffs.
Rodgers has done him no favours but he's ultimately responsible for his own performances on the pitch. Which have been largely crap. Re the allegedly cheap fee/wages, it's as irrelevant to me as criticising someone else on the basis that they cost a lot of money. That's in the past. All that matters is whether they're performing at the level required by the club the play for. He isn't.
I wonder if he's just a convenient scapegoat. After all they're miles from the form of last season, Rodgers doesn't seem to have any idea where he's taking the club and of the 24 players bought for £220M under his reign a grand total of 1 has been an outright success. The fans and press need someone to talk about after the game and at the moment its Mario. If it weren't him, then who?
Ridiculous really. Januzaj is talented, Kovačić is talented, so is Sterling.
Balotelli is fe.king 24 years old..
Is the same as some people treating Anderson talented till few years ago.
I was listening to Talksport yesterday pre-game and Mario was clearly involved in something during the warm-up. Graham Beecroft (a LFC fan) reported it, How did this story disappear? Football365 had this in their Mediawatch section today:
A Mysterious Tale
Mario Balotelli may have ended his goalscoring drought last night, but don't be tricked into thinking that was the biggest story involving the striker at Anfield.
'It's Always Mario,' blasts the headline on the back page of the Daily Express.
'Balotelli in new storm...' begins the tagline below.
This 'storm' revolves around an alleged incident in which Balotelli was 'kicked out' of Liverpool's pre-match warm-up by first-team coach Mike Marsh. It is not mentioned in any other paper.
The key witness to this incident was talkSPORT reporter Graham Beecroft, who said on Tuesday evening: "After continuing to mess around Mike Marsh, the first team coach got hold of him and said "clear off, go away", shoved him towards the centre circle."
"He went over and saw somebody else, a tracksuited member of the backroom staff at Liverpool...and then, after getting no joy out of him, walked off the field on his own."
After the match, Liverpool assistant manager Colin Pascoe shed light on the situation: "No, he was sent in because he twisted his studs in the ground and that's why he was sent in just to check with the physio if he was alright or not."
TalkSPORT ran their own story on Beecroft's quotes, but that has since been deleted. In fact, it was deleted by 9.30pm, which raises the question of why the Express still chose to run the 'It's Always Mario' angle on their back page.
A Mysterious Tale
Mario Balotelli may have ended his goalscoring drought last night, but don't be tricked into thinking that was the biggest story involving the striker at Anfield.
'It's Always Mario,' blasts the headline on the back page of the Daily Express.
'Balotelli in new storm...' begins the tagline below.
This 'storm' revolves around an alleged incident in which Balotelli was 'kicked out' of Liverpool's pre-match warm-up by first-team coach Mike Marsh. It is not mentioned in any other paper.
The key witness to this incident was talkSPORT reporter Graham Beecroft, who said on Tuesday evening: "After continuing to mess around Mike Marsh, the first team coach got hold of him and said "clear off, go away", shoved him towards the centre circle."
"He went over and saw somebody else, a tracksuited member of the backroom staff at Liverpool...and then, after getting no joy out of him, walked off the field on his own."
After the match, Liverpool assistant manager Colin Pascoe shed light on the situation: "No, he was sent in because he twisted his studs in the ground and that's why he was sent in just to check with the physio if he was alright or not."
TalkSPORT ran their own story on Beecroft's quotes, but that has since been deleted. In fact, it was deleted by 9.30pm, which raises the question of why the Express still chose to run the 'It's Always Mario' angle on their back page.
I think your opinion is stranger. 24 is still young for a lot of players, it wouldn't be hard for me to list a tonne of top players who didn't get their game to its top level until after that age.
He's started terribly but I'd expect him to improve under Rodgers, especially after Sturridge comes back.
I don't understand this. Iniesta is old, but I'd still regard him as one of the most talented footballers in the world. Same with Ibrahimovic, Silva and the likes.
That's Balotelli in a nutshell. He would be brilliant in one game and then go into a rough patch were were he's horrible. His inconsistency (among his attitude) were the reasons why he left Inter and Milan. Berlusconi was just thrilled to have him out of AC Milan.
You do not get a potential star from a major country for 15m without him having either issues or weaknesses in his game. If Liverpool wanted a consistently good scorer then they should have spent the money for him. Even in that case, a club must be ready to wait for him to adapt. We've just signed one of the most prolific and consistent strikers in the world, a top of his breed and he has only scored 1 goal in 5 games. Things wont improve by just putting pressure on him at this early stage especially with someone so volatile as Balotelli.
In my opinion this reminds me a bit of Rojo. We needed a world class defender to replace Rio/Vidic and we got, well a decent one whose still unpolished and whose certainly nowhere near to what we needed. What's the point in venting our frustrations about our leaking defense on him?
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