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Dubai Blue said: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.
Bravo. I actually think lot of bad stuff Balotelli showing on the pitch is result of his desire to prove both himself and Mancini.
Mancini saved his career after Inter debacle and is putting unbelievable amount of trust in him, even if he is saying he can't be trusted, and that's making a new pressure on already emotionally unstable boy.
He is trying to save Mancini's but but dragging it down even more.