The guy’s a complete cock. Those of us who knew all about this player before he joined groaned when we were first being linked with him. Positivity is what we need the most, both on and off the pitch and all Balotelli brings is negativity. I don’t care if he’s the second coming of Diego Maradona, he brings too much negativity to the team. He bitches at opponents, he bitches at team mates, he bitches at the ref, he bitches at the manager, he finds it impossible to just get on with the game.
He’s one of the most combustible players in world football, he’s only going to improve SO much with age and experience. He’ll always guarantee a team X number of red cards, XX number of yellow cards a season and a plethora of public spats with managers and team mates.
To put up with all the downside associated with Balotelli my minimum expectation would be 30 premier leagues goals a season and 45 goals in all competitions. That’s what he needs to do to offset the bad.