Balotelli (continued)

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I see the love struck school girl has steadfastly refused to address this. Preferring instead to peddle the ridiculous notion that football clubs buy 20 year old players for £20m fees and treat and value them in the same way an accountant would value a car, depreciating its value from the day it is bought until it is eventually worth nothing and has no resale value at all.

It sums up the mental illness that this bloke has when it comes to his crush that he is seeking to make out that any club sanctioning the amount spent on Balotelli would not be, at a minimum, expecting that such a young "potential filled" player, to at least retain, and most probably increase, his value as he proves his ability at the top level.

Instead, we are left with a dud whose valuation and worth to suitors falls by the months, at roughly the same rate that most judges decrease their estimation of his ability.

Yet this clown would have you believe that such a loss is a success for City and something that they planned for financially. An absolutely amazing obsession.

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him and the player himself has received in wages in the last 30 or so months.

Has he ?

Could you show why this is please bud, i would say he has given only negative publicity and any good stuff is attributed with brand Balo, not City.

TL;DR I think your dead wrong.

I remember I was at the Wolves game at Molineux last season as a guest and I was in a lounge before the game and there were a load of local kids (not City fans) and the MC asked them which player they'd like to be and they all shouted 'Balotelli'.

I think much like Beckham in his time at united Balotelli has added a bit of stardust and shone a light on City at a time when it was looking to transform itself from a club that no-one really took seriously, who had suffered from decades of under-coverage, to one that is on everyone's lips.

We probably get more column inches than any club now and Mario has been a big part of that.

Attention of that nature is not something any club would want to endure for ever, its charm is very limited, but when you are making that leap, having a globally talked about nutcase does wonders for your brand recognition.

I realise talking in these terms will upset some of our more inveterate traditionalists, but the reality of the situation is that to compete on the pitch then we have to hold people's interest off it. In that sense I would say he's served his purpose and we've had good value out of this ahem... idiosyncratic character.

 

[lawmanreturns]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him

You're dead right, you just can't put a price on that kind of entertainment.

 

[Keith Moon]

If you think that City, or any club, is quite happy to, outside of accounting practices, quite happy to determine sale prices of every single one of their players according to their contract situation, in effect meaning that the club is happy to give every player away on a free at the end of their contract, then it is you that is stupid.

If you genuinely believe that the club signed this clown for an inflated fee with the attitude 'well, we'll sell him at some point during his contract but obviously we only expect to get 50%, 25% or 0% of what we paid as his contract will be running down' then I don't know what to say.

You could not name a single club who would buy a player of his age for a high fee and, at the point of purchase, be thinking of anything other than, should they choose to sell him in the future, aiming for recouping what they paid or, more likely, making a profit after he develops.

With your ridiculous comment you are suggesting that clubs sign expensive young players in the knowledge that they are likely to make a massive percentage loss, given that value depreciates over the length of their contract.

Mental. But when you have a schoolboy, celebrity crush on someone, the mind works in mysterious ways.

I see the love struck school girl has steadfastly refused to address this. Preferring instead to peddle the ridiculous notion that football clubs buy 20 year old players for £20m fees and treat and value them in the same way an accountant would value a car, depreciating its value from the day it is bought until it is eventually worth nothing and has no resale value at all.

It sums up the mental illness that this bloke has when it comes to his crush that he is seeking to make out that any club sanctioning the amount spent on Balotelli would not be, at a minimum, expecting that such a young "potential filled" player, to at least retain, and most probably increase, his value as he proves his ability at the top level.

Instead, we are left with a dud whose valuation and worth to suitors falls by the months, at roughly the same rate that most judges decrease their estimation of his ability.

Yet this clown would have you believe that such a loss is a success for City and something that they planned for financially. An absolutely amazing obsession.

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him and the player himself has received in wages in the last 30 or so months.

Word.

 

[TCIB]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him

You're dead right, you just can't put a price on that kind of entertainment.

I raffed hard, i rost

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him

You're dead right, you just can't put a price on that kind of entertainment.

Do you lot still sing:

"City, Manchester City, nobody knows our name" to the Rupert the Bear Tune?

Thought not. We truly are 'massive' now and Mario's played his part in that process.

How our continued rise must sting.

 

[jma]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him and the player himself has received in wages in the last 30 or so months.

Football players are not signed on this basis.

If the scenario "he will not deliver on the pitch, his value will fall, his footballing stock will plummet and there is a possibility that he is a source of division amongst the team and the fans. Yet he will make lots of column inches, a large amount of them negative" were put to the manager, the board and the owners via a crystal ball before signing him, we both know that they would have not gone ahead with it.

He was not signed to 'raise the profile' and he can get as many column inches as he wants for being an idiot and it would not compare one iota to the performances last season and the final day for 'raising the profile' of this club.

I think too many people are under selling what this club are doing and where it is going. The tabloid exposure or Mario Balotelli is almost totally irrelevant as to whether they achieve that and the associated profile that comes with it. (In fact, there is an argument that the negative perception he allows the press to spread about the team could work against securing potential signings.)

I remember a similar argument being made about Robinho. Another total flop. I would imagine that there is not much more of an insulting term to a focused professional footballer than 'your worth to this club is based not on your footballing ability but on some sort of off the field reputation that comes with you.'

(I also note that the star struck lover has again failed to respond to a point about his desperate attempts to mas the truth about his beau)

if you think i should be bothered to respond to the shite you write you have wait a bit i'm worry

I know you won't. But that is only because you are not capable. You are shown up daily on here for treating a professional footballer as if he is a member of One Direction and you are the love struck school girl.

This is nothing to do with language barrier. You cannot respond to the above because your argument about a sale for £9m being a positive for City has no resemblance to the truth. Just like most of the other shite you peddle about your man.

 

[Tevez City]

City needs a creative midfielder

Chelsea needs astriker

How about Marin For Mario ?

care to share your drugs?

I just rate Marko Marin and think he is very good player

Ask any Spurs fans and they will tell you how good is he, they know him when they faced Werder Bremen in the Champions League and Marin showed how good is he.<br /><br />-- Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:46 am --<br /><br />

City needs a creative midfielder

Chelsea needs astriker

How about Marin For Mario ?

Hmmm? I thought we had creative midfielders ( Nasri and Silva ? ) besides if we are going to add another creative midfielder then its definitely going to be someone like Isco or Goetze not Marin.

As I said above, I just rate Marko Marin and think he can a good addition to any team in the PL.

 

[jma]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him

You're dead right, you just can't put a price on that kind of entertainment.

Do you lot still sing:

"City, Manchester City, nobody knows our name" to the Rupert the Bear Tune?

Thought not. We truly are 'massive' now and Mario's played his part in that process.

How our continued rise must sting.

That sort of nonsense rhetoric is about as accurate as me painting you as some sort of teenage school boy who is blinded by 'lolz' to the realities of profile and publicity associated with a rapidly rising club and the sort of profile the owners are trying to create.

It's cheap.

 

[dctid]

Personally i just want to win shit and carry on buying top world class players - Silva, Yaya, Sergio etc and play top qualty entertaining football

Think this will be more successful than employing Coco the Clown or similar

 

[Keith Moon]

Irrespective of his performances on the pitch, Balotelli has added value to the Manchester City brand far in excess of a combination of the money we paid Inter to sign him

You're dead right, you just can't put a price on that kind of entertainment.

Do you lot still sing:

"City, Manchester City, nobody knows our name" to the Rupert the Bear Tune?

Thought not. We truly are 'massive' now and Mario's played his part in that process.

How our continued rise must sting.

Scum is The Beatles, we're The Stones and Balotelli is Keith Richards