Balotelli (continued - bust up with Mancini pg 18)

[bobmcfc]

I've decided I don't really care too much. It's a storm in a tea cup and will not affect our club unless we let it. Mario can piss off if he likes as he doesn't do much does he ? But other that


MEH

 

[VOOMER]

This is not just a "usual training ground bust-up." This really does make a mockery of our club and there can only be one outcome. I have always taken the view that it was worth perservering with Mario because, whatever his critics say, he is a football talent. This incident strikes at the heart of Mancini's credibility as a leader. If Mario doesn't go then Mancini will be holed under the water with his staff. Mario must go for the good of the whole club. It doesn't show Bobby in a good light either. Do you remember how long Tony Coleman lasted after apparently coming to blows with Malcolm Allison?

Errmm, slightly different. TC was on the lash with Stan Bowles, Mal told him to go home, they jumped him and Mal battered them. This a number pictures which could and may well be attached to the wrong outcome aside from being very selective.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

This is such fucking bad news...

It really isn't

why why why does this keep happening to us and how come we can always see it all over the internet and on SSN?

That's sort of how the internet works.

 

[allan harper]

This is such fucking bad news... why why why does this keep happening to us and how come we can always see it all over the internet and on SSN?

A lot of people should be very unhappy with this, Señor Soriano the most disappointed I'd think. This just reeks of lack of class.

Do you think you'll manage to get to sleep tonight worrying about this? Would you like some diazepam ?

 

[mekonmcfc]

To be honest looking at the pictures Mario needs an award for keeping calm. Id have lost it and someones head would end up on the grass. But since it is Mario he gets no credit for having the composure of a meditating monk.

It's a culmination of events though, Didactic. The public perception of the club takes a hit everytime he makes a twat of himself. Whilst a lot of people might think, fuck it, don't care what anyone else thinks, I can't see Sheikh Mansour taking this view. He's the head of the company and some of his employees are fighting in public. All these fights seem to have one common denominator though.

We are in the entertainment business this is entertainment. I always cringe at people trying to paint footballers as role models and examples of acceptable behavior. These are womanising young millionaires with no real connection to any of us besides our love for them. Lets stop imagining things here of all the owners investments this is probably the most casual and things like dust offs on the training pitch are nothing. Its naive to think that the owners image is affected by the actions of a 22 Italian boy with his own issues. On a completely business level Mario has attracted masses of fans and attention to the club which equals global exposure and revenue. Celebs pay agents and PR companies to get a quarter of the attention he commands for free just by being Mario. Stop looking at it if we are running a nunnery and one of the nuns was caught gagging on a cock in public. Childish footballer behaved like childish footballer after provocation from childish manager who was once a bad boy footballer himself.

Its all entertainment and no amount of Mario out blah will change that you are actually increasing his market value. People who count shit like how many times a name is typed in Google or an article about a certain player is read will tell you that Mario is any market mans dream. He is now one of the most famous young athletes in the world and that has commercial value for him and the club. Business is about numbers not who or what you like.

Actually the most sensible thing you have written, but doesn't change the fact that he is shit and a lazy bastard

 

[baildon blue]

Did Steve Kinsey's bust up with John Benson get this sort of publicity?

Did it fuck.

I dont remember this happening in 1983.Then again Mario is a better player than Kinsey was

 

[Manx Blue]

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if I'm going over old ground.

If you think going back to Tevezgate in Munich, we have largely (until Tevez returned) been playing with two Centre Forwards.

Mario is far too unreliable, and once again it would seem we find ourself going into game(s) with two centre forwards, due to Serge's hamstring.

We have to get rid of this buffoon once and for all this window. He's a world class player, but a major liability in my oppinion

 

[bluemoonmatt]

Another day, another damaging Balotelli story. Rarely does this shit happen with other members of the squad. I find it hard to believe that Mancini would go for him without good reason, that said he should have waited but whatever has gone off it just had to involve Mario sodding Balotelli didn't it. We long to love this kid but he makes it impossible. Time to get him out of our club, cut price or not and replace him with someone who wants to work hard and be a part of this clubs success.

 

[waspish]

He sells papers look at this thread

 

[LoveCity]

He's a world class player, but a major liability in my oppinion

He's not a world class player though, he may have world class potential but has never shown himself to be a world class player. World class players constantly deliver.

Agree with the second part though.

Also don't buy into this "free publicity" thing, our club being slandered and made a laughing stock of is not the publicity Soriano and Khaldoon will have in mind.