Goodbye Mario? (merged)

[SWP's back]

Looks like you embarrass easily.

Must be a self confidence issue.

 

[kunaguero10]

Glad to see him leave. Never wanted him to join us in the first place, I knew it wouldn't work out. He's been a royal pain in the ass for every team he's played for and very rarely produces the ability on the pitch that everyone seems so convinced that he has.

So he was a pain in the arse at one club? So you didn't want to sign him?

 

[crystal_mais]

Goodbye & Good luck Mario

Hope it works out for you in Italy

 

[moomba]

Oh good. Some slagging of City supporters.

Wonder who could be involved?

 

[Pigeonho]

Oh good. Some slagging of City supporters.

Wonder who could be involved?

Who's slagging anyone off? If you consider mine and cookie monster's post as slagging people off, you're extremely thin-skinned. A bit of banter, a wee piss take even but not slagging off.

Man up.

 

[andyhinch]

With are free scoring football this season getting ride of a sticker was an easy choice to make, it will make us stronger

 

[malg]

With are free scoring football this season getting ride of a sticker was an easy choice to make, it will make us stronger

Wow, a great example of why you should proof read your posts!

 

[Rocket Sauce]

I really hope Balo can get his footballing career on track. Would be great to see him fulfill all that potential. Unfortunately, it's not going to be in a City shirt.

With our luck, he'll come back to the Etihad in the Champion's League and bag a hat trick. Typical fucking City....

Best of luck, Mario!!!

 

[didactic]

In the Guardian

'Mario Balotelli will fly to Milan on Wednesday to complete his transfer from Manchester City as new details emerge of why Roberto Mancini decided it was futile to continue believing the striker would stop letting him down.

Mancini's patience finally snapped because of the events leading to the late and dangerous challenge on Scott Sinclair that led to the embarrassing series of photographs showing City's manager grappling with Balotelli at the club's training ground on 3 January.

Twenty-five minutes before that training session, Mancini had summoned Balotelli for a heart-to-heart in which he tried to convince the player that he still believed in him and was certain he could be one of the key players in a successful title defence. "This is your chance – don't waste it," he told the Italy international.

What followed was so reckless that it convinced Mancini he was fighting a lost cause and that the colleagues who had advised him to give up on Balotelli were correct. His anger was evident for all to see in the pictures of the flashpoint.

Mancini still has strong reservations about letting Balotelli go without having a replacement lined up, preferring an end-of-season deal rather than leaving City with only three established strikers. Privately, however, he had accepted a club with City's ambitions could no longer afford to carry someone so unpredictable.

The only reason he had said he wanted to give Balotelli another chance, or "100 more chances", was an old managerial trick based on City being aware that advertising he was available would drive down the transfer fee. Behind the scenes, all the relevant people have been making plans for his departure for the past fortnight. It is understood the transfer to Milan is worth £17m, rising to £19.5m depending on how Balotelli does at San Siro.

Mancini, it has also emerged, had told Balotelli that he should think about changing the company he was keeping in his social life. Mancini did not think it was so bad when his own son, Andrea, lived in Manchester but the nature of Balotelli's hangers-on has increasingly become a concern. He had also told the player he should travel to Italy to spend time with his baby girl as part of leading a more grown-up lifestyle. To Mancini's dismay, he came away believing the 22-year-old was not particularly willing to listen to his advice.

Until 3 January, however, Mancini had been willing to forgive Balotelli for his erratic form and recurring ability to attract headlines for the wrong reasons, retaining his faith in the striker despite him playing an increasingly peripheral part this season, with only one Premier League goal.

Elsewhere, there has been a feeling behind the scenes at City for over a year now that the club would be better off off-loading someone who was underperforming so regularly and bringing in a superior replacement. Mancini is an admirer of the Napoli striker Edinson Cavani and a summer move is possible.'

And this s your seventh post? You are either a journalist trying to milk this or a rag either way you can fuck off. Ill take the ban he is gone and us true blues wish him well stop storing shit.

Not my intention to stir shit - big fan of Balotelli and sad to see him go. Usually just read on here but thought I'd add to the debate. Apologies.

Apologies mate just still a bit tender about the whole issue. A lot of rags come on here to just wind us up. Enjoy your stay.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Oh good. Some slagging of City supporters.

Wonder who could be involved?

Who's slagging anyone off? If you consider mine and cookie monster's post as slagging people off, you're extremely thin-skinned. A bit of banter, a wee piss take even but not slagging off.

Man up.

You know the rules mate.
No blue on blue,no agenda-denial,never question the conspiracy, and no thinking for yourself.
'You're on Bluemoon - you'll do what you're told'.