Balotelli Apology

[LongsightM13]

A pure PR stunt, orchestrated by his agent to try and preserve his marketability/contract negotiating position with other clubs in the summer, and his place in the Italian Euro 2012 squad.
Notice how when Mario and his agent thought they were doing City a favour, they were basically batting their eyelashes at Milan, Madrid etc, and saying if we're lucky, he will deign to stay with us for one more season. Bollocks to City.
Now that it looks like we are the ones likely to bin him off in disgrace, his agent insists he is going nowhere.
His apology to the club and fans has all the sincerity of a whore's orgasm.

 

[M18CTID]

Gone.

Hope not. Hopefully he will be made to feel like shit for the rest of the season by everyone at the club to hammer home what he has actually done.

Mancini needs to treat him like every other player and stop making exception for him, as it's not helping either of them.

Balotelli knows Mancini wants the best for him, so hopefully Mancini will go to town on him and get him to finally straighten himself out. Like many have said, Balotelli is t the first to make mistakes, but this doesn't make it right.

Hope Balotelli turns it around as he could be mint.

You have to treat people as individuals but you cannot make allowances for one whilst treating others according to accepted norms of running a football team. It breeds resentment, the very antithesis of team spirit. This is what Mancini has done, with the best of intentions, and it's backfired like one of Mario's fireworks, and I should imagine that Roberto will have the bite marks on his arse for much of next season.

People talk about him getting preferential treatment but to be honest I see it as the opposite - it seems that Mancini adopts a tougher stance with Balotelli than with other players on certain matters. Saying that the FA should look into his, ahem, challenge on Song is something I can't recall hearing another manager say about one of his own players when they've committed a bad tackle.

If anything Mancini is hanging him out to dry in public. Perhaps he's doing it to teach him a harsh lesson that he really needs to get a grip before he pisses a very promising career away. Unfortunately, the downside of this is that it feeds the media frenzy.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Lame excuse, once again highlighting it is about him or Mancini, and not fucking City.

I wonder how many early 20 something strikers we could sign for circa £20m who will score a similar amount of goals and manage to stay on the pitch and out of the headlines most of the time?

Plenty.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Hope not. Hopefully he will be made to feel like shit for the rest of the season by everyone at the club to hammer home what he has actually done.

Mancini needs to treat him like every other player and stop making exception for him, as it's not helping either of them.

Balotelli knows Mancini wants the best for him, so hopefully Mancini will go to town on him and get him to finally straighten himself out. Like many have said, Balotelli is t the first to make mistakes, but this doesn't make it right.

Hope Balotelli turns it around as he could be mint.

You have to treat people as individuals but you cannot make allowances for one whilst treating others according to accepted norms of running a football team. It breeds resentment, the very antithesis of team spirit. This is what Mancini has done, with the best of intentions, and it's backfired like one of Mario's fireworks, and I should imagine that Roberto will have the bite marks on his arse for much of next season.

People talk about him getting preferential treatment but to be honest I see it as the opposite - it seems that Mancini adopts a tougher stance with Balotelli than with other players on certain matters. Saying that the FA should look into his, ahem, challenge on Song is something I can't recall hearing another manager say about one of his own players when they've committed a bad tackle.

If anything Mancini is hanging him out to dry in public. Perhaps he's doing it to teach him a harsh lesson that he really needs to get a grip before he pisses a very promising career away. Unfortunately, the downside of this is that it feeds the media frenzy.

In relation to your last point, you could well be right, mate.

However, if it is the case, it should cost Mancini his job.

You don't impact the team's results by trying to teach a player a lesson.

The downside isn't the media frenzy, it is results on the field, plain and simple.

I think Mancini has continually attempted basic psychology, trying to get Balotelli to prove him otherwise, they have let each other down.

City being the biggest loser.

 

[Ntini77]

I'll be astonished if he ever plays for us again.

 

[GStar]

Lame excuse, once again highlighting it is about him or Mancini, and not fucking City.

I wonder how many early 20 something strikers we could sign for circa £20m who will score a similar amount of goals and manage to stay on the pitch and out of the headlines most of the time?

Plenty.

13 goals in 1311 minutes of football this year.

How many 21 year old strikers are doing that; not many.

How many would stay on the pitch for longer; pretty much all of them.

The headlines is a UK press thing; look at the lack of coverage for Young, no persecution from the media, Rooney's off the ground scissor tackle from behind; not even a card, not an inch devoted to it in the columns.

Balotelli brings it on himself, no defending him there; but he's hardly competing on a level playing field. Balotelli is to every newspaper what Princess Diana is to the Express.

 

[M18CTID]

You have to treat people as individuals but you cannot make allowances for one whilst treating others according to accepted norms of running a football team. It breeds resentment, the very antithesis of team spirit. This is what Mancini has done, with the best of intentions, and it's backfired like one of Mario's fireworks, and I should imagine that Roberto will have the bite marks on his arse for much of next season.

People talk about him getting preferential treatment but to be honest I see it as the opposite - it seems that Mancini adopts a tougher stance with Balotelli than with other players on certain matters. Saying that the FA should look into his, ahem, challenge on Song is something I can't recall hearing another manager say about one of his own players when they've committed a bad tackle.

If anything Mancini is hanging him out to dry in public. Perhaps he's doing it to teach him a harsh lesson that he really needs to get a grip before he pisses a very promising career away. Unfortunately, the downside of this is that it feeds the media frenzy.

In relation to your last point, you could well be right, mate.

However, if it is the case, it should cost Mancini his job.

You don't impact the team's results by trying to teach a player a lesson.

The downside isn't the media frenzy, it is results on the field, plain and simple.

I think Mancini has continually attempted basic psychology, trying to get Balotelli to prove him otherwise, they have let each other down.

City being the biggest loser.

I don't think it will cost Mancini his job, but he could be facing a very difficult decision as to what he should do with Balotelli in the summer.

Sadly, my guess is that if we let him go he'll eventually realise his potential elsewhere. If that happens, some may see that as a slight on Mancini and how he has handled the player but for me it'll be more a case of us being unfortunate in taking Balotelli on at a time when he has yet to fully mature. As a comparison, Cantona was an even looser cannon at that age and pulled some even worse shit on the pitch than Balotelli has - so much so that by the time he was 25, he was pretty much unemployable until Leeds took a punt on him.

 

[Rushton121]

Couple of Interesting stats (according to Sky Sports)

Yellow Cards Red Cards

Balotelli 7 2
Gareth Barry 8 1
Vincent Kompany 6 2


Balotelli has also score 1 less goal than Dzeko in 10 less games


#scapegoat

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Lame excuse, once again highlighting it is about him or Mancini, and not fucking City.

I wonder how many early 20 something strikers we could sign for circa £20m who will score a similar amount of goals and manage to stay on the pitch and out of the headlines most of the time?

Plenty.

13 goals in 1311 minutes of football this year.

How many 21 year old strikers are doing that; not many.

How many would stay on the pitch for longer; pretty much all of them.

The headlines is a UK press thing; look at the lack of coverage for Young, no persecution from the media, Rooney's off the ground scissor tackle from behind; not even a card, not an inch devoted to it in the columns.

Balotelli brings it on himself, no defending him there; but he's hardly competing on a level playing field. Balotelli is to every newspaper what Princess Diana is to the Express.

We paid £24m for this supposed potential, not the shit that comes with him, so 13 goals is the least we should expect.

I don't care about Rooney or Young or who is doing what elsewhere.

I care about the impact this clown is having on our team. He has merited red cards on each and every occasion.

 

[johnmc]

He has merited red cards on each and every occasion.

Scouse one was harsh