tolmie's hairdoo said:GStar said:tolmie's hairdoo said: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.
Rushton121 said: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
johnmc said:tolmie's hairdoo said:He has merited red cards on each and every occasion.
Scouse one was harsh
Rushton121 said: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
They're not interesting stats; they're completely misleading and irrelevant stats.Rushton121 said:Couple of Interesting stats (according to Sky Sports)
Yellow Cards Red Cards
Balotelli 7 2
Gareth Barry 8 1
Vincent Kompany 6 2
tolmie's hairdoo said:Rushton121 said: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
So you choose to ignore the retrospective red card action - the four game ban re Parker.
The potential action over Song?
You also choose to ignore the red cards he has accumulated in less than two seasons.
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johnmc said:tolmie's hairdoo said:He has merited red cards on each and every occasion.
Scouse one was harsh
Debatable one, bud.
He led with his arm, it came a minute after another stupid booking.
And had also proceeded just ten minutes into his introduction when he was diving, banging the ground, moaning at the ref.
Being his usual self, really.
bluefandk said:I find it baffling that the very people who expect Tevez to be forgiven are the ones who want to throw Balotelli under the bus.
Rushton121 said:bluefandk said:I find it baffling that the very people who expect Tevez to be forgiven are the ones who want to throw Balotelli under the bus.
Exactly
When the whole thing happened with Tevez 99% of City fans wanted his head, then a dip in form for Silva and Aguero/ Dzeko and suddenly he has to be brought back into the side to save our season.
We would've lost the game against Sunderland had it not been for Mario, Yet people are more focussed on his little scuffle with Kolarov (in which it was Kolarov who pushed Mario)
When Rooney does his stupid shit, i.e two footed lunges or kicking out at players, do the Utd fans call him a disgrace and want him out of the club? no.