How he gets reported on and treated by the media depends on one person - Balotelli himself. The press will be waiting for him to do something stupid and when he does, (not if, when), they will be all over him like flies around shit. The opposite is true, too. If he does a replica of the goal v Norwich with his shoulder or something equally as 'clever', it will be all 'same old crazy mario' in a comical way.
As for the player himself, I'm not buying into the whole 'Milan are skint' bollocks and that's why he has cost relatively little. The only reason he has cost that low fee is because that is all he is worth. If Milan were as skint as to sell a so called world class talent for £16m, people would be after El-sharawwry for pennies. The truth is that balotelli is just a decent player, nothing more.
He will make his debut very late in august, it seems, and so I am going to predict:
4 goals between then and end of September, with Liverpool fans thinking they have a god on their hands like many fans of our club fell for believing.
Something stupid off the pitch by October.
First red of his scouse career by November.
No goals since September as we approach christmas.
Speculation he will be offloaded in the January window when the now typical balotelli pattern has come into fruition.
He won't be affecting our title chances, that's a guarantee.