Ballotelli doesnt like Manchester (Merged)

[jrb]

But if you're not happy where you live, your surroundings and lifestyle, then you can't be happy in work. That unhappiness doesn't just stop at the gates of the training complex.

Surely to God he has friends over here? There is no reason why his family and friends in Italy can't visit him in Manchester either. 2 hours by plane.

One more thing. He's only just had 2 months off, staying in Italy and visiting friends and family there. It's a hard life.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

From the Telegraph:

Mario Balotelli's incessant taste for controversy has led the permanently disaffected Italian striker to declare he is "not happy" in Manchester just a week before the start of the biggest season in Manchester City's history.

Speaking to an Italian television station just moments after arguably his most impressive display of pre-season in a comprehensive victory over his former club Inter Milan, the 20-year-old was at pains to stress he is happy with manager Roberto Mancini and his Manchester City team-mates.

His admission that he dislikes the city of Manchester itself - a complaint also levelled at Britain's self-styled capital of cool by Carlos Tevez - will hardly encourage Mancini to return that affection, though, especially as Balotelli's comments were delivered as the City manager held a press conference in which he cautioned that the striker needed to show more maturity.

"I am not happy in Manchester," said the striker. "I do not like the city. With my team-mates and my manager, everything is fine, but the city is not to my tastes. I miss the chance to be at home with my family and with my friends."

Asked whether a move to AC Milan or a return to Inter - the former is rather more likely than the latter, according to sources in Italy - the striker mischievously replied that his home was not Milan, but Brescia. "That is my home," he said. "Milan is a great team and one day, you cannot say what will happen. Inter again? We will see. At the moment, I am attached to Manchester.

"[Milan chief executive] Adriano Galliani says that sooner or later I will go to Milan? I would like to, but we will see. Yes, I have chanted "Forza Milan" in the past, that I was joking. One day, though, maybe."

That a move to neither club has been mooted this summer suggests that Balotelli's comments were borne more of a need to cause trouble than a genuine desire to leave, but his adaptation to life in England has not been smooth.

The striker has complained of boredom despite City's best attempts to provide interests and activities for a 20-year-old who is described as being remarkably childlike in his need for attention. The club have even gone so far as to arrange go-karting lessons for the player, but seemingly to no avail.

To be honest I'm not keen on the city either.

 

[cookster]

please share oh wise one the video interview evidence you have

Don't have too! Seen the evidence with my own eyes on the pitch!

you must of seen how good he can be as well then. if he can reach his potential we have a very rare talent. not something you should piss to one side at 20 because he kicks a water bottle over. its not like he committed rape, shagged a granny, missed a drugs test, been suspended for taking a banned substance, had an affair with his sister in law, etc, etc, etc,

Seen him have some great games and some awful. Doesn't change my opinion that off the pitch he's a prick.

 

[Cruiser Blue]

Yea but im just gettin fed up with players that dont want to be at city straight after they sign you can tell with the body language and words when they say im fine here im ok here im not bad here that sets alarm bells ringing from the start and thats what hes been like since the start

 

[scenecreamer]

Re: Ballotelli doesnt like Manchester....

I love living in Austin. Stick a mic in my face and ask me if I like the hot summers, or whether I would like to go run a software company in Seattle, and I would sound unsettled and disloyal to my company.

Mario needs the love of fans as much as any player I have seen. When he was cheered at Wembley against United, even after making some early mistakes, he became brilliant. Stirring negative gossip spread by biased journalists hurts our team.

Brother, ain't it the truth.

They want us unsettled. They fear him. 10 Goals last season, while recovering from injury. He'll break 20 this season, mark my words. Dzeko can put it in when he gets good service, but Mario creates opportunities.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Don't have too! Seen the evidence with my own eyes on the pitch!

you must of seen how good he can be as well then. if he can reach his potential we have a very rare talent. not something you should piss to one side at 20 because he kicks a water bottle over. its not like he committed rape, shagged a granny, missed a drugs test, been suspended for taking a banned substance, had an affair with his sister in law, etc, etc, etc,

Seen him have some great games and some awful. Doesn't change my opinion that off the pitch he's a prick.

his city career is still in its infancy just like dzeko. hopefully dzeko can become as good with the ball at his feet as balotelli and balotelli can become as good as dzeko off it.

 

[Cellarite]

Re: Ballotelli doesnt like Manchester....

Weekend in Hull should sort him out

and what the fuck is wrong with hull? apart from the schools, the hospitals, the football team, the racist people, the obesity, the lack of things to do, the smell of sewers that happens city-wide now and again, the fact that i have to drive 93 miles just to see a home game, the sheer volume of kebab shops and the general fuckwittery that passes for life around here? what's wrong with hull apart from that?

 

[lancs blue]

Re: Ballotelli doesnt like Manchester....

Weekend in Hull should sort him out

and what the fuck is wrong with hull? apart from the schools, the hospitals, the football team, the racist people, the obesity, the lack of things to do, the smell of sewers that happens city-wide now and again, the fact that i have to drive 93 miles just to see a home game, the sheer volume of kebab shops and the general fuckwittery that passes for life around here? what's wrong with hull apart from that?

It's in Yorkshire.

 

[MAXXI]

The agenda with Anti-City campaign’s for Roberto Mancini to fail and Mario is one of their targets. That’s Cleary what the bastard rags media hoping for unsuccessful spell of Balotelli.
What you think?

 

[McnabsMustache83]

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