Mancini has as much chance of controlling that dressing room as a Sega Megadrive does of powering Google for a day.
Mario Balotelli
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I dont care about Balotelli to City. But who Inter get to replace him is my concern. Balotelli played up front sometimes but he also played on the left of Mourinho's diamond. I saw a report that they might go after Ozil... That would make sense in a way. I hope they dont.
Shame. I thought he'd do well for us under SAF.
No doubt everyone on here will start pretending they never wanted him anyway.
No doubt everyone on here will start pretending they never wanted him anyway.
They'd ruin Ozil. That is the only reason I wouldn't want that to happen.
How much have City spent now this summer?
Silva - £24m
Boateng - £12
Toure - £24
Kolarov - £19m
Balotelli - £28m
£107m and still to tie up the Milner deal (another £25-30m), plus a striker.
This is fecking insane.
Silva - £24m
Boateng - £12
Toure - £24
Kolarov - £19m
Balotelli - £28m
£107m and still to tie up the Milner deal (another £25-30m), plus a striker.
This is fecking insane.
His agent has now said nothing has been signed.
No. It's called having money
Apparently, we have no reason to be wary of or fear City.
A striker? They certainly won't go after one having signed Balotelli as it leaves them with basically 7 or 8 good strikers in the team.
They will go after another winger or a central player mind.
Balotelli is not an out and out striker though is he? He can play on the wing. Reading Mancini's comments the past few days looks like he's after a out and out striker too. Maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah they have a shit load already, but the likes if Santa Cruz, Bellamy, Benjani and whoever else they have (excpet Tevez and Adebayor), are finished.
That's the thing, there is so much that isnt up to the mark, i think Santa Cruz and Bellamy are good players but not top 4 good.
Mancini has a tough job getting the players Hughes signed off the wage bill because lets be honest. Santa Cruz is a bit of a crock, Bellamy is good but he's a bit of a cock, Lescott is for me the worst transfer in history, or the best if you're David Moyes and others like Barry and Bridge are just not good enough.
Agreed. It seems the Hughes signed players (albeit by the same Arab) are not good enough. Maybe City have higher goals than then.
How about the fact that they couldn't really attract Star players then as compared to this summer? One would ask what's changed? The answer to that would be very simple they signed 1 star player and the rest followed suit..
I think you may be right.
It's not as if they have CL football either.
Maybe having Mancini makes a difference now?
Yep and that.. He is obviously more likely to be able to attract and bring in European based players which seems to be exactly what he has done..
And yet its not insane if you compare it to the money Real Madrid and Barcelona have been spending in the past few seasons. I mean at least with City you understand that they are looking to move forward and fast with a moneybags owner. You'd expect them to be way outspending everyone else in the past few seasons. And although they've spent a lot this summer, its been no more over the top than Real and Barcelona in recent times.
Milner and a marquee striker.
I was reading the bluemoon forums and it was funny to see them comparing Balotelli to Rooney(when we first signed him). I mean Rooney at Balotelli's age had shown his outrageous talent at worldwide stage where Balotelli is still not a regular in his own side. Also Rooney despite all his temperamental problems still gave it all on the pitch however Balotelli is a moody cnut. I'm not disputing Balotelli's talent but to compare him with Wazza is just wrong IMO.
City should move to La Liga and battle it out for star signings with Madrid and Barca
You're honestly comparing the European champions to a shite Everton team back then?
Balotelli would be as much of a star in the Everton team as Rooney was.
Balotelli has the talent to be one of the best in the world, his touch and delivery is amazing, and he has one fecking vicious shot on him, good for is he only has 1 brain cel to utilise his attributes
He's also a player who could quite easily engineer a move away from City in the future. Robinho has had lots of trouble getting out, but he isnt mental like Balotelli. No matter how good Balotelli becomes in the next couple of seasons, if he's walking around in Manchester United shirts, arguing with City fans and pissing off his team mates they'll be forced to get rid of him because one bad apple spoils the bunch.
He can't be an arrogant teenager all his life.
But Rooney starred for a pretty strong England team at that age, however Balotelli still can't get into the Italian team.
Can't blame him for having Lippi as manager..
He wont be a City player all his life.
The way Balotelli played last season, it's no surprise he didn't get called up to play for Italy.
There's a number of strikers still ahead of him of course, like Rossi - and the strikers called up by Lippi for the World Cup were rightfully ahead of him.
There's a number of strikers still ahead of him of course, like Rossi - and the strikers called up by Lippi for the World Cup were rightfully ahead of him.
He's not petulant; he's just a knob.
The bad side of Telli
The good side
The good side
He has anger issues, but isn't "immature" in the sense he doesn't have an inflated ego or looks down on others. He doesn't act like a child - just a thug.
he apparently told Totti he's finished
He kicks people if they do something he doesnt like, perhaps tackle him or something. Thats pretty childish in my book.
Yeah but he doesn't throw his toys out of the pram when he's benched, or sits on his arse and looks bored when things don't go his way. That's the level of maturity he has at least reached.
The fact he is a thug on and off the pitch has nothing to do with his childishness because you can be a childish thug or an adult thug.
Rooney and Keane also acted somewhat like you said, but they aren't considered "childish" - just hot-headed. Angry yet mature.
He does both, when he got subbed by Jose last season he completely threw his toys out of the pram, and alot of games he spends most of his time arguing with the ref and diving than playing football
He digs at players without much reason to. Thats petulant, even if he can be somewhat professional off the pitch.
In my opinion its also childish no matter if Rooney or Keane do it. Or Ever Banega who did it yesterday in a friendly. I've never known someone to insist that Joey Barton isnt petulant and childish. Those would be two of the first words I use to describe him, with "cnut" somewhere in there too.