Mario Balotelli to Liverpool thoughts?

I'd like to wish him well but actually wish that he'd cause them as many headaches in the behaviour/media headlines department as he caused City.

Let's hope we don't give away any penalties if/when he plays against us. Our players should certainly know which buttons to push though.
 
dippers cant able to beat rags at least they now have a player whose pass killed rags celebration ..

still i can't believe his only assist i think so in a city shirt on such a special occasion.
 
Apparently he'll be able to play against us on Monday night if the dippers get his registration to the FA by midday tomorrow...

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Our guilty pleasure. Great craic for a bit an the goal in the 6-1 route of the scum, iconic always me!
But to be fair.... Far to much of a liability. Prob count on one hand the games he effected positively for us.
Unmanageable at Inter according Maureen .... Breast fed at CITY by his so called mentor an still fcked up.... Home to his spiritual AC Milan an the side show and rows with the chairman etc.... Out again.
Predict a great start... Possibly a media love in as it the dippers an not ourselves.... Then it all goes tits up around 6months in !!
 
I stuck up for Mario relentlessly when he was a City player, and felt very let down when he walked out on us - he disrupted the team, turned a lot of our squad against Mancini and cost us points (most noticeably against Arsenal).

I am absolutely livid that he is joining another PL club, and sincerely hope he alienates the likes of the walking ego that is Sturridge and brings Liverpool the same pain and misery he brought to City.

Sincerely hope nobody decides to sing about him or give him a standing ovation on Monday if it does transpire that he signs and plays against us, as the man was a bit of a disaster for us - and by all accounts Milan cannot wait to get rid of him, so he didn't really do it for them either. No doubt he's talented, but I can't see him living up to his potential - too many demons
 
kennyclementstache - 21/8/2014 20:35

If he plays on Monday he will score the winner. That's how it is, I don't make the rules.
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He won't.

Fifth is right. The guy is a liability.

He will end up in a 'man-scuffle' with 'splinters' and it will all end in tears. He thinks he's the Alpha male.
 
I can already see Gerrard pulling him away after it's kicked off. But my biggest question is this.

How will the media Liverpool mafia, the Carraghers, the Lawrensons, The Hansens and all the rest of them react having obsessed about this "liability" ad nauseam whenever he took the field or farted towards Mancini?
 
fifthcolumnblue - 21/8/2014 20:05

I stuck up for Mario relentlessly when he was a City player, and felt very let down when he walked out on us - he disrupted the team, turned a lot of our squad against Mancini and cost us points (most noticeably against Arsenal).

I am absolutely livid that he is joining another PL club, and sincerely hope he alienates the likes of the walking ego that is Sturridge and brings Liverpool the same pain and misery he brought to City.

Sincerely hope nobody decides to sing about him or give him a standing ovation on Monday if it does transpire that he signs and plays against us, as the man was a bit of a disaster for us - and by all accounts Milan cannot wait to get rid of him, so he didn't really do it for them either. No doubt he's talented, but I can't see him living up to his potential - too many demons
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do you still think he stamped on Scoddy Parker's head by accident? :rolly: :duck:
 
Johnny Baguette - 21/8/2014 21:24

I can already see Gerrard pulling him away after it's kicked off. But my biggest question is this.

How will the media Liverpool mafia, the Carraghers, the Lawrensons, The Hansens and all the rest of them react having obsessed about this "liability" ad nauseam whenever he took the field or farted towards Mancini?
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They will wax lyrical about his "massive talent" and predict that Rodgers, thr great man-manager (sic), is "just the right guy to get the best out of him". They will bang on about "how he's matured" and that they "always rated him" and probably say that "too much was made of the issues at City" and that "Liverpool will get the best out of him". I think the Liverpool loving media will give him a pass on any antics which they sought out with unadulterated glee when he was playing in sky blue.

I'm with fifth I'm afraid in finding his return to the PL after one season away having played for his apparent 'dream team' for only one year a bit of a sickner. His disruptive tendencies proved him to be a liability for us & I can only hope he does the same on Merseyside.
 
Interesting article from Paulo Bandini...

Liverpool may be just the place for Mario Balotelli to get back to basics

Less than three weeks have passed since Brendan Rodgers said “categorically” that Liverpool would not sign Mario Balotelli. Just a few days earlier, the Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani had stated with “99.9%” certainty that the player would stay where he was. In football’s transfer window it is not the boys who cry wolf that fans need to worry about, but the ones who insist nothing is happening at all.

Balotelli is not yet a Liverpool player, but all indications are that he may become one very soon. Negotiations between the Premier League club and Milan were progressing afternoon, and the striker told Sky Italia that it had been his final day training with the Rossoneri.

Perhaps we ought to have seen this one coming. Galliani made an identical estimation regarding the futures of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva in the summer of 2012, just days before selling both players to Paris Saint-Germain. Six months later, he told reporters that there was a 99.5% chance that he would fall short in his attempts to sign Balotelli from Manchester City....

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/aug/21/liverpool-mario-balotelli-italy-milan

 
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/mario-balotelli-must-sign-behaviour-clauses-to-join-liverpool-20140822-1071dh.html From an Aussie paper.
 
- Lawrenson December 2012:

"Man City Must Dump Balotelli"

If I were Roberto Mancini this morning I would call Mario Balotelli into my office.

I would also get hold of his agent and say: 'Right Mario, sort out your transfer, you can leave tomorrow.'

Honestly. I would sell him on the first of January if I could. Because he was an absolute disgrace yesterday.

And I cannot believe Roberto Mancini preferred him to play alongside Sergio Aguero instead of Carlos Tevez in the Manchester derby.

But this is a player that thinks the whole world revolves around him. That's the problem.

It only takes one bad apple to upset the cart and I'm sorry but it's Balotelli at City. They have to now cut their losses, have a look and see who they can get in and replace him.

But they have to now say: 'Thank you very much' and replace him because I cannot think of a single more destructive influence in the Premier League.

Mancini has had his problems with Tevez but when he plays, he plays.

Therein lies the difference. But Balotelli is not worth the aggravation. He is not worth the time they spend on him. He certainly doesn't do anything for dressing room harmony.

Just get rid of him.


- Lawrenson August 2014:

"Rodgers Can Handle Balotelli"

Liverpool need a new striker and I think AC Milan's former Manchester City frontman Mario Balotelli would be a great signing. Can Brendan Rodgers handle him? Yes.

Rodgers is the sort of hands-on manager who can handle players with big personalities. We saw that with Luis Suarez, and what he produced last season.

Balotelli has been here before, and made his mistakes. Yes, he will make some more but, when he plays, he is a real handful.

And I just get the impression that Rodgers can handle him far better than Roberto Mancini, who seemed to spend all his time looking after the Italy international.

If Balotelli starts to mess around a little bit, Rodgers will just stick him on the bench.

 
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