Mancini is apparently the only man who can get the best out of Balotelli. The fact that he hasn't managed to do that during the (almost) two seasons he's been with us speaks volumes.
Balotelli is clearly a very complex individual and all Mancini has ever done during their time together at City is send out extremely conflicting signals to the player. Be it publicly chastising him in the US, saying he'd punch him in the face everyday if he had to play with him, saying he can't trust him or saying that he wanted to sub him after 5 mins.
He says all of these things but then goes on to contradict himself in both words and actions. "I love him," he says, "He's Mario. Anything can happen. He's not a bad person." And then he trusts him implicitly to fire his team to the league title.
Is it any wonder Balotelli is such a mental case when he has Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde as his 'father figure'? It'd be enough to confuse the bollocks out of me as well, and I'm at least 900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more intelligent and emotionally stable than Balotelli.
Without wishing to sound too overdramatic, Mancini has helped create this monster and unless he cuts the umbilical cord between them both pretty sharpish, he'll find that Balotelli drags him down with him. He's nailed his colours to the wrong post with this nutter.
