Mario Balotelli
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Nice one AdZzIf he can find the right club and improve his attitude, he could be a superstar.
A move away from Italy would definitely help his career. I'd rather have Özil for £25m though.
"Lo United vuole davvero Balotelli". Raiola getta altra benzina sul fuoco
Agent confirms United want Balotelli.
Before leaving to Manchester, Agent Riola confirms United's interest. United's interest is true and had been confirmed by both clubs. Balotelli is proud that SAF wants him but I cant exclude that he will remain either at Inter or go somewhere else
When asked by transfermarket.it why he is going to Manchester Rioula states. Only my wife knows the details of my movements. I have to travel alot to explore all situations and during this period (between today and 30th august) im going to get married. Anyway we will take the Balotelli future seriously and only after exploring all the options.
Agent confirms United want Balotelli.
Before leaving to Manchester, Agent Riola confirms United's interest. United's interest is true and had been confirmed by both clubs. Balotelli is proud that SAF wants him but I cant exclude that he will remain either at Inter or go somewhere else
When asked by transfermarket.it why he is going to Manchester Rioula states. Only my wife knows the details of my movements. I have to travel alot to explore all situations and during this period (between today and 30th august) im going to get married. Anyway we will take the Balotelli future seriously and only after exploring all the options.
City, Manchester City, Nobody knows your name!
Love it. Adebayor was referring to United as Manchester during BBC's WC coverage.
Chuckle.
From what I have seen off him and I admit that's not much, I don;t want him at United especially for anything near 40 million euros. He seems more trouble than he is worth and I have not really seen the potential in him, although I admit I have only seen him play in the Champions League.
He must want out of there bad. Even £160k a week or whatever he is on is not enough to make people happy at that farce of a club
Balloteli as a signing SAF wants doesn't make sense. Why not get him before preseason starts so he can train with the rest. Not like he was at the WC.
Just a weird link IMO, perhaps to up the bidding.
Just a weird link IMO, perhaps to up the bidding.
The Guardian's Daniel Taylor is reporting that he's heard from United that the Balotelli story is 'agent driven pap', much like the Cole, Sneijder stories...
How reliable is that guy?
I'd take him at OT. I think SAF and this club plus the different culture of England would do him good. He'd probably fit in well with Welbeck, Wes, Rio, et al.
If we do buy him, we'll then have Ballotelli, Hernandez, Diouf, Macheda, Welbeck and King as "young promising strikers", how the hell do we even expect to develop half of those players? We've been going on and on about all those young players and how they're headed for the big time, about time we put some faith in them isn't it?
It doesn't really matter, imho.
He could be reporting entirely accurate quotes from SAF and they are still unlikely to shed any true light on our future transfers. It's just not something the managers would talk about openly and truthfully.
I think had more to do with Inter and Moratti's stance about him.. Only recently has Moratti said that he would sell him at a acceptable price..
I am not sure Balotelli is just a "young promising player", I would say he is a proven Serie A player. In fact, there are not many 25 year old avalible that are much better than he is. He has played a lot for Inter, and contributed to three scudettos, the coppa italia and the champions league. As Ferguson said, the market is very narrow. With Rafa taking charge at Inter, his agents (if they are any good) should recomend him to get the hell out of there, he is crap at developing talent, and Inter themselves has a bit of a rumour to be talent destroyers as well.
His skillsets are rare. He is 1.90, physically strong, and fast, and rather technical - he delivers quite a few assists as well, which is important as he is to work with Rooney, and basically if you are to work in 4-4-2 in general. And throughout the next years he will get even better than he is today, that means that he can become among the very best forwards in the world, he might already be top 50 - that means he can become something really special. We have a lot of young strikers, but Balotelli are currently far above them all when it comes to experience, and so far he is above all when it comes to achievments... There are a few I would like to see join us ahead of him, but not many forwards.
As for the "attitude problem" he is just a kid.. You need to accept more from a 18-19 year old than someone well into his twenties. If I had a "unlimited" budget when I was that young, I would have big attitude problems as well.
His skillsets are rare. He is 1.90, physically strong, and fast, and rather technical - he delivers quite a few assists as well, which is important as he is to work with Rooney, and basically if you are to work in 4-4-2 in general. And throughout the next years he will get even better than he is today, that means that he can become among the very best forwards in the world, he might already be top 50 - that means he can become something really special. We have a lot of young strikers, but Balotelli are currently far above them all when it comes to experience, and so far he is above all when it comes to achievments... There are a few I would like to see join us ahead of him, but not many forwards.
As for the "attitude problem" he is just a kid.. You need to accept more from a 18-19 year old than someone well into his twenties. If I had a "unlimited" budget when I was that young, I would have big attitude problems as well.
Whenever I've seen him I've sat up and watched because he's impressed me. Needs to sort his head out, but at times I've thought bloody hell he's gonna be amazing!
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QF the muthfeckin T.
He is far more than just a promising player with a bad attitude. He's a player with all the tools to become one of the best in the world.
I hope we get him and I hope the United crowd treats him with the respect his talent deserves. We won't see this bad attitude if they do.
I'd rather sign a sack of shit
An actual sack of shit, not Emile Heskey
Respect he deserves for his talent my arse. He's a class A wanker with a rancid attitude. Nothing but trouble, I can't honestly believe Fergie is interested
An actual sack of shit, not Emile Heskey
Respect he deserves for his talent my arse. He's a class A wanker with a rancid attitude. Nothing but trouble, I can't honestly believe Fergie is interested
You wouldn't react to the abuse which is more than often racially motivated that he has recieved?
Give him one reason to show those Inter fans any respect?
EDIT -
That sounds to me like an intelligent young man at the end of his tether with the abuse he recieves.
For years in England and still in Spain and Italy and some other countries (I know some eastern European countries are bad for it), non-caucasion players recieved abuse and had to keep thier heads down and let it go by because authorites would not act against it and in society it wasn't something that was out of the ordinary.
Balotelli knows he lives in a world now where he doesn't have to put up with this and I commend alot of his actions against supporters who are giving him this abuse.
Remember the "Stand up, Speak up" campaign? We'll he's a one man army right now. He has the confidence in himself and arrogance to fight against it.
He's a United player.
I'd go as far to say Ballotelli is farther advanced than all of those forwards you mentioned in progress and ability to step right into the first team. FFS, the kid has been played in Serie A more times than any of those players mentioned have participated in the Premiership. He has all the abilities to be a Drogba with incredible pace, just needs someone to harness his mental approach and rescue him from a cesspool of racism.
I haven't been going on and on about the youth players - that's left for other posters constantly rating and overrating the United youth. I'd be surprised if more than one of that batch make it at United as a regular player. Besides, if a player is good enough he'll make it.
Some of the comments in here have me wondering just how fans would be reacting if the net was this widespread in Nov 92.
If Fergies genuinly interested in him im Hally berrys weekend sex toy....his personality is everything i can imagine Sir Alex hating in the modern day footballer..
Never coming here.
Never coming here.
Balotelli has all the attributes to make us forget about Cristiano Ronaldo.
Yeah, I went there.
Yeah, I went there.
Sounds a bit like a few United greats, Cantona, Ruud and Ronaldo come to mind.
Exactly.
Listen to how people that knew a young Cantona talked about him. He was a right peice of work and out for himself only causing problems with team mates and opposition aswell as fans.
I actually agree with this.
But I simply don't think any of this is the truth. It's basically the Sneijder stuff just with Balotelli's name instead this time.
Hes a trouble maker, the sort of player who’d likely cause disharmony and splits within a squad, players like that are not worth the hassle no matter how talented they may be....Mourinhio said of Balotelli last season " hes got all the ability in the world but only 1 working brain cell" after just one of the very frequent spats he had with the management staff last season.
I dont believe for a moment Sir Alex will tolerate a big time Charlie like Balotelli strolling into Carrington as if hes gods gift never mind paying the 40 odd million euros hed likely cost in transfer fees.
Honestly id wager a hefty sum were not even remotly interested in him, sounds like Agents looking to spark either a pay rise or a big money transfer to City by using United in the process.
He had a personality clash with Mourinho. They didn't get on.
You want me to judge my opinion on you with people you don't get on with?
From the start Mourinho made it clear he wasn't going to give him any support through any of the racial abuse. He took the easy route and turned a blind eye just like everyone else.
Do you think were really interested in him? honest opinion?
He's cnut. Why bring a troublemaker into the team and hope that Fergie sets him straight or hope he doesn't cause problems. Few other young strikers we can look at and buy (Dzeko) instead of taking our chances with Balotelli.
Yes, he's got an immense amount of potential and Ferguson loves getting players he can make something out of. He's got all the physical attributes aswell.
Because quite simply, there are few other strikers with the amount of ability Balotelli possesses.
Dzeko is a good striker, sure, but he's 5 years older than Balotelli and while he's a good marksman he doesn't have the pace or technical ability that will make him a cut above the rest.
At 19 I can't think of a single player with more potential than Balotelli.
I wrote about him for Football Fancast in December and have just finished writting something about him that will be posted on my site tomorrow and your point about Mourinho is probably the most poignant. He abandoned him.
At his age who here was an angel? I'm 22 and at the age of 18 my life was near to being over before it started. I turned it around with less support than he did.
Balotelli is a quality player and although being emotionally immature can erase this onfield with his performances. Like someone has already mentioned he is physically impressive as well as technically and many of the players we regard as great have all had something to them, Maradona, Best etc
At Old Trafford he will have Sir Alex to put his arm around him as well as let him know about himself when he messes up. Would be a great signing for us especially as we are well equipped to iron him out.
We have Rooney, Berbatov, Welbeck, Macheda, Hernandez and even Diouf. There's no chance we'll sign him, particularly seeing that we are struggling with our finances.
Not like we spend 20-30 mil on people even when our finances are in order just because.
As you've said we have several strikers - 4 of them being young. Another at this price would have to fit in right away - which Balloteli isn't I'd think.
Don't think it is particularly related to our finances.
Its amazing that at only 19, he's already won three Scudetto's and a Champions League.
Some of the sensationalist comments in this thread made about a lad that none of us have ever met, let alone spent time with are ridiculous.
Makes you realize the power of the media over the average twat in the street.
I know feck all about Balotelli as a person, he's a class young player who's had problems at Inter for myriad reasons. Most of the problems seemed to have their roots behind closed doors, but getting racially abused by your own fans in this day and age is utterly disgusting, and United we prefer to kung fu kick racists than ignore them.
I'd be really excited if we got hold of him!
Makes you realize the power of the media over the average twat in the street.
I know feck all about Balotelli as a person, he's a class young player who's had problems at Inter for myriad reasons. Most of the problems seemed to have their roots behind closed doors, but getting racially abused by your own fans in this day and age is utterly disgusting, and United we prefer to kung fu kick racists than ignore them.
I'd be really excited if we got hold of him!