OrigamiNinja said:Why do the pro Balotelli posters keep trying to compare his performance with other City players to justify that he wasnt that bad?
It has been established on the board that the whole team performance last night was unnaceptable. However I would hazard a guess that the OP started the thread, because like me he sees last nights performance by Balotelli as yet another in a long list of sub-standard, lazy, couldnt give a flying one performances from him.
Balotelli has had 2 good games and 3 or 4 average/acceptable games all season and in the rest he has been nothing more than a passenger. If this is considered an acceptable contribution from a player that came with a £25 million price tag and earns £0000s per week then football has changed beyond belief and not for the better.
I keep reading and hearing about this ridiculous talent he has yet I have not seen it, in what is now almost a whole season should he have not shown it on a least a few occasions? The Balotelli defenders on here need to start living in the here and now because talk of him becoming one of the best in the World is nothing more than fantasy material and even if this were true he wont be doing it in a City shirt because he will either be gone this Summer or next.
So with this in mind the only question that needs to be answered is are we getting our moneys worth from his performances this season? The answer can only be no! If you believe the answer to be yes then I am afraid there is little or no hope for you!
Superga said:OrigamiNinja said:Why do the pro Balotelli posters keep trying to compare his performance with other City players to justify that he wasnt that bad?
It has been established on the board that the whole team performance last night was unnaceptable. However I would hazard a guess that the OP started the thread, because like me he sees last nights performance by Balotelli as yet another in a long list of sub-standard, lazy, couldnt give a flying one performances from him.
Balotelli has had 2 good games and 3 or 4 average/acceptable games all season and in the rest he has been nothing more than a passenger. If this is considered an acceptable contribution from a player that came with a £25 million price tag and earns £0000s per week then football has changed beyond belief and not for the better.
I keep reading and hearing about this ridiculous talent he has yet I have not seen it, in what is now almost a whole season should he have not shown it on a least a few occasions? The Balotelli defenders on here need to start living in the here and now because talk of him becoming one of the best in the World is nothing more than fantasy material and even if this were true he wont be doing it in a City shirt because he will either be gone this Summer or next.
So with this in mind the only question that needs to be answered is are we getting our moneys worth from his performances this season? The answer can only be no! If you believe the answer to be yes then I am afraid there is little or no hope for you!
I guess there is no hope for you !
You already said he play well or acceptable 6 matches, on how many matches ? Scoring a 40% positive from a Balo hater is not that bad.
Now you tell me how many points he brought to us with his goals, if we go to CL as I beleive sure he got a stake on it.
Please don't try to value him based on how much he is paid, otherwise he still far better than 2/3 of our squad and much better that kind of Torres, Carrol, ....
AntonDonJuan said:I wouldn't judge anyone on that game last night, especially not Balo who actually looked a bit of a threat going forward at times.
I also thought the decision to replace him was a disgrace and would have done more harm than good to his progress, especially with only 5 mins or so left.
It looks to me that he needs love, and all i see from Mancini is tough love, there's only so long you can try that approach before you have to put your arm round him and show him some encouragement
TheSituation said:He's done more than Tevez has recently but that doesn't stop Tevez getting wanked dry.OrigamiNinja said:Yeah so do I but he is producing the grand total of fuck all!
I think its 10 goals for the season, 5 of which came in 2 league games against a shit WBA side and an even worse Villa side and two of those were from the spot. Cant remember him chipping in with a single assist all season.
He isnt producing any goods, he is a **** and he is such a **** that he doesnt even fall into the category of "At least he is our ****"!
I physically hate the bloke!
M18CTID said:AntonDonJuan said:I wouldn't judge anyone on that game last night, especially not Balo who actually looked a bit of a threat going forward at times.
I also thought the decision to replace him was a disgrace and would have done more harm than good to his progress, especially with only 5 mins or so left.
It looks to me that he needs love, and all i see from Mancini is tough love, there's only so long you can try that approach before you have to put your arm round him and show him some encouragement
I couldn't work out why he was subbed but I suppose one plausible reason was that with the game lost and Tevez almost certainly out of the semi, Mancini perhaps wanted to make sure that Balotelli didn't get injured as well. Wouldn't have put such a key player like De Jong on in place of him though. I'd have stuck McGivern on instead. Very weird substition for multiple reasons.
I'll readily concede that some of the criticism of Balotelli has been justified this season but most of the abuse his way for what happened last night should be aimed elsewhere IMO.
OrigamiNinja said:Superga said:I guess there is no hope for you !
You already said he play well or acceptable 6 matches, on how many matches ? Scoring a 40% positive from a Balo hater is not that bad.
Now you tell me how many points he brought to us with his goals, if we go to CL as I beleive sure he got a stake on it.
Please don't try to value him based on how much he is paid, otherwise he still far better than 2/3 of our squad and much better that kind of Torres, Carrol, ....
Balo won us 3 points against WBA and 3 against Villa. He helped us gain a point at home against Fulham. I think that covers his 6 league goals. None of those teams are any good by the way. He played ok against Sunderland last week but again they are atrocious. He has done nothing of note against any team in the top half of the table! So you could say that his performances have helped us gain 7 points, or about 8% of our total over the season so far! What a contribution!
His other goals again came against nothing more than mediocre opposition in the Europa League, a competition that Balo had a huge hand in helping us get knocked out of, you know with him missing a tap in from a yard and then getting sent off because he is a spoilt brat that you are not allowed to tackle!
As for comparing him to Torres and Carroll I am pretty sure that both have more league goals than Balotelli this season.
nashark said:I think, though, Balotelli was epitomised last season in one incident. After Inter had won of their biggest games in their history, at the end, instead of celebrating with his team-mates and being happy for the club, he slammed his shirt into the ground in disgust at not being played. Selfish, lazy, arrogant, and it's a myth that he has any discernible talent whatsoever. He's just an athlete with the intelligence of a 7 year old boy.