Balotelli (continued)

[MSP]

Re: Balotelli

Mancini making Mario a scapegoat again, just like West Ham away.

By no means his biggest fan, but he was excellent in first half, strong, looked for the quick one-two.

For the second home game in succession Mancini fucks up the substitution, which was again Tevez for that waste of space Nasri.

Fly Mario, fly free, because it seems Mancini is prepared to pass the buck to his prodigy just to save his own skin.

This all day.

Absolutely no Balotelli's fan here but I'm sick of Mancini's I love him/I'm sick of him antics.

On one side he is protecting him all the time when he should really already be sold and on other he is punishing him for all stupid reasons that any other player wouldn't be punished at all.

And he perfectly manages to move focus on Balotelli's "bad stuff" whenever it's not going good for him too.

 

[Tevez City]

Mancini making Mario a scapegoat again, just like West Ham away.

By no means his biggest fan, but he was excellent in first half, strong, looked for the quick one-two.

For the second home game in succession Mancini fucks up the substitution, which was again Tevez for that waste of space Nasri.

Fly Mario, fly free, because it seems Mancini is prepared to pass the buck to his prodigy just to save his own skin.

This all day.

Absolutely no Balotelli's fan here but I'm sick of Mancini's I love him/I'm sick of him antics.

Well said.

 

[GoMancini7]

He would never try to sub Agüero after a missed backheel.:)
With Balotelli he can do it.
Mancini has a very unreal relationship with Balotelli only they know what the hell they want from each other.

The only question when his agent decides its time to go for Mario. When that happens no way City can keep him. Nut sure its a bad thing tho.

What we got from Balo this year is one goal each in Carling Cup, PL and CL.

He cannot hope any regular starting place here for years. not this year or the next year surely.

 

[andrewmswift]

I like them both...Mancini and Balotelli.....but today I was more annoyed at Mancini than Mario!

If I were Mario, I would look to leave in January after the disrespect shown today. Mancini has to look at his man management abilities, because today he acted out, rather than in a manner consistent with the man who leads the Champions of England.

For me, Mario has to play CENTRE FORWARD, DOWN THE MIDDLE, HARASSING THE CBs, with his partner making runs off him. As it is, he does not see near enough of the ball for the amount of work he does to get himself open.

I would be very interested to see the stats on how much running he does per minute of time on the field. Also, I would be interested to know how many times he actually gets a decent ball played in to him WHERE HE WANTS IT. Doubt it is very often.

Mario has a new baby and, if I were him, I would be looking to go to Milan and get the f*** away from England and the EPL, where he is vilified at every turn. No protection, no fouls for things that others get regularly and a manager who makes far too much of him. Mancini needs to take the focus OFF Mario, not constantly put it ON him. Does it make Mancini feel bigger to publicly whack his players? It shouldn't but I think it does!

He gets slated in Italy due to rampant racism

Fixed

 

[andrewmswift]

Re: Balotelli

Mancini making Mario a scapegoat again, just like West Ham away.

By no means his biggest fan, but he was excellent in first half, strong, looked for the quick one-two.

For the second home game in succession Mancini fucks up the substitution, which was again Tevez for that waste of space Nasri.

Fly Mario, fly free, because it seems Mancini is prepared to pass the buck to his prodigy just to save his own skin.

This all day.

Absolutely no Balotelli's fan here but I'm sick of Mancini's I love him/I'm sick of him antics.

On one side he is protecting him all the time when he should really already be sold and on other he is punishing him for all stupid reasons that any other player wouldn't be punished at all.

And he perfectly manages to move focus on Balotelli's "bad stuff" whenever it's not going good for him too.

Totally, totally agree with the above two posts.

Did or did not Mario put Aguero clean through but for a terrible first touch by Kun?

Did he not look constantly more involved than Aguero when we were well on top of the game early?

Did he get a single decent chance of service?

Mancini's reaction was ridiculous and not a rational display of management. Tevez for Nasri was the obvious sub and somehow not made, which it should have been at half.

 

[pudge]

Re: Balotelli

Mancini making Mario a scapegoat again, just like West Ham away.

By no means his biggest fan, but he was excellent in first half, strong, looked for the quick one-two.

For the second home game in succession Mancini fucks up the substitution, which was again Tevez for that waste of space Nasri.

Fly Mario, fly free, because it seems Mancini is prepared to pass the buck to his prodigy just to save his own skin.

This all day.

Absolutely no Balotelli's fan here but I'm sick of Mancini's I love him/I'm sick of him antics.

On one side he is protecting him all the time when he should really already be sold and on other he is punishing him for all stupid reasons that any other player wouldn't be punished at all.

And he perfectly manages to move focus on Balotelli's "bad stuff" whenever it's not going good for him too.

Totally, totally agree with the above two posts.

Did or did not Mario put Aguero clean through but for a terrible first touch by Kun?

Did he not look constantly more involved than Aguero when we were well on top of the game early?

Did he get a single decent chance of service?

Mancini's reaction was ridiculous and not a rational display of management. Tevez for Nasri was the obvious sub and somehow not made, which it should have been at half.

Yes, and he put it into row Z

 

[citymad]

What bothers me is that Mancini gambled that Balotelli would be in the right frame of mind to play in such an important game. IMO it shows poor management that he suddenly made Balo first choice striker on a hunch that he might be up for it. Really pissed off with this decision and set the tone for the defeat in a poor first half. Lets hope we've seen the last of him for a while.

 

[Blue Haze]

Think it's beyond the point of 'did Mario play well relative to his standard?'

I'm wondering (maybe Txiki is too) if we're getting value for money at 100k per week when players like Michu and Huntelaar are earning far less. Watching those Dortmund players knowing none of them earn anywhere close to his salary or cost half as much. The whole idea behind this was to get a young player at a price low relative to where he'll be in 5 years. Does anyone think he's improved much while at City?

He looks like a player who knows he will get a payday whether City sell him or not, if not from us then some Italian club or PSG will pay him a fortune. His first feeling of urgency will probably be when he's in his 30s after he's thrown away his potential and realises he'll need more money for retirement. It's just frustrating to see what he did versus Germany and know he'll never be arsed to play that way for us. Sell him to Italy and let him be with his daughter.

 

[dzeko01]

how must carlos feel when he sees this guy in the starting xi instead of him.

Tevez is probably one of the few [teammates] who believes he has the potential to be a great striker/player + didn't balotelli mention once that carlos is his role model/something like that. In my humble opinion I think they understand/support each other. don't know why....




delusional me.

 

[dzeko01]

btw what happened to the balotelli thread the one with 500 pages?