Mario, time to say goodbye?

Not sure he'll be here next season (and yes, I've seen his comments and that of his agent about being happy ay City). I'm not sure how much more of being targetted by opposing players and singled out by referees that he will be willing to put up with. And could you blame him?
 
Keep Mario and help him over come the witch hunt, buy Cavani in the summer and let those two fire us to champions league glory.

As for tomorrow night, I'll be singing his name loud an proud at Kluxfield.
 
I disagree with Tolmie on this matter, and explained why in a previous post.
But it was a valid question for him to ask. Don't see why he's getting so much abuse over a question which may be at the back of a few minds.
I just think it'll all blow over when the Daily Salem etc find a new target for their pitchforks
 
rick773 said:
I guess if he was a white womanizing alcoholic with a sensible haircut he'd be ok. He has an actual personality and I personally love it. In addition to growing into a great player I think going forward he could be huge in marketing city to new audiences. If there's one player in the league who can bring in new American fans it's him.
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The marketing value of someone like Balotelli must be phenominal by now, so purely in monetary terms having a brilliant but flawed genius in your stable massively raises City's profile.
Nose to spite face etc;
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Pigeonho said:
Good post TH. I'd agree with that swap deal too, suits everyone concerned. Personally I wouldn't miss the paying for petrol for everyone, turning up at colleges, buying rounds in a Wythenshawe boozer or anything else off the pitch as its all meaningless. Yes it raises a smile and yes people want to ruffle his hair in 'you loveable scallywag' kind of way, but on the pitch is where it matters and in the main, he's let himself and us down more than not.
A swap for a player who will do it purely on the pitch would make sense. Not denying Balotelli has quality, he has it in abundance but he also has a silly streak which spoils it.
Do you think this could be a goer?
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It was just a purely hypothetical scenario.

Mario loves Naples, his girlfriend is from the area. Mancini loves Cavani.

De Laurentis is a crazy fuck and is demanding close to £50m, but if Mario was on the table, I believe it could be a game changer.

After all, they took Maradona to their hearts and protected him.

Manchester is too small for a guy like Mario, as is England.

It would also be a massive fuck you to the FA and media, having chased away another star.

Difference is, we have the means to bring in another. Cavani would win us the league alongside Sergio for the next three years.

Let me be clear, I champion Mario and whatever he and the club want to do, going forward.

But rationale dictates he will be chased off or will follow Mancini out the door.
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This would be stupid IMO. I mean, they're pretty much equal in terms of talent right now. In fact, in overall ability, I'd give it to Mario. In another couple years, this is going to be a laughable comparison..
 
LongsightM13 said:
I disagree with Tolmie on this matter, and explained why in a previous post.
But it was a valid question for him to ask. Don't see why he's getting so much abuse over a question which may be at the back of a few minds.
I just think it'll all blow over when the Daily Salem etc find a new target for their pitchforks
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Because 90% of people on here dont quite understand what the question was. Everyone instantly jumped on the "must protect Balo" bandwagon without realising the actual question was about if it would be better for Balo and his progression to do it away from the UK and the hounding he gets here on and off pitch.

I get a feeling most people just read the thread header and ignored the contents of the post.
 
More pertinently, given Sky's role in hyping all of this in it's various formats, how about nobody from our club — players, management etc — co-operates with them for the next few televised games?
No access to the players or management for pre-recorded stuff. No pre or post-match interviews, except with City TV and the OS.
Probably wouldn't make any difference in the long run, but might give Sky pause for thought and what could the FA do about it? They let Ferguson get away with ignoring a rights holder for the best part of a decade so they leave themselves open to claims of bias if they tried to act.
 
grunge said:
LongsightM13 said:
I disagree with Tolmie on this matter, and explained why in a previous post.
But it was a valid question for him to ask. Don't see why he's getting so much abuse over a question which may be at the back of a few minds.
I just think it'll all blow over when the Daily Salem etc find a new target for their pitchforks
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Because 90% of people on here dont quite understand what the question was. Everyone instantly jumped on the "must protect Balo" bandwagon without realising the actual question was about if it would be better for Balo and his progression to do it away from the UK and the hounding he gets here on and off pitch.

I get a feeling most people just read the thread header and ignored the contents of the post.
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Kneejerk reactions on BlueMoon? Surely not!


;-)
 
LongsightM13 said:
More pertinently, given Sky's role in hyping all of this in it's various formats, how about nobody from our club — players, management etc — co-operates with them for the next few televised games?
No access to the players or management for pre-recorded stuff. No pre or post-match interviews, except with City TV and the OS.
Probably wouldn't make any difference in the long run, but might give Sky pause for thought and what could the FA do about it? They let Ferguson get away with ignoring a rights holder for the best part of a decade so they leave themselves open to claims of bias if they tried to act.
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I would think in the short term that would make them gun for us more.

I dont overly subscribe to the agenda theory, it's just we are getting more coverage than any other club at the moment and there are waves of positive and negative stories depending on what is going on.
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tagn3lB3I[/youtube]
 
In reply to the OP, fuck NO

We should be highlighting every offence against Balo - we should be asking for protection for him before every match just like Wenger does for his little darlings or Ferguson for Ronaldo back in the day.

We should be counting up the fouls received by him in every match and publishing them.

And the fans should be standing up and singing his song even more so he knows we support him even if he's going through a bad patch.

Oh, and he needs to cut out the petulant side to his game also...............
 
I must concur with Tolmies Hairdoo, but not just for the benefit of the lad himself. To be honest I'd have happily flogged him after the two legged fiasco against Kiev, but I was then delighted when he proved me wrong at the end of last season. And as he started this season in similar vein, playing for the club rather than himself, I thought we'd got ourselves a real gem (which in some ways we have).
I also agree completely that most of his bookings are bullshit, the one on Sunday being a case in point. First challenge he makes in a game that had already contained at least a dozen more serious fouls, all of which had gone unpunished, and out comes the card faster than you can say knife. He's never gonna get a fair deal here. The media are unquestionably out to nobble us and he's an easy target. Three times this season since the Tevez fiasco we've had to take players off in the first half of games and on each occasion the commentators have eschewed the possibility that they might have been due to injuries and assumed instead that they are evidence of an unhappy club, at which point the cameras have then immediately and repeatedly scanned the benches desperately hoping for any kind of dissent. Same deal with the training ground.
That though is where my sympathy for Mario ends and my concern for the club begins. Every player at the club must surely know the knives are out, yet Mario seems incapable of not giving our enemies ammunition. 2 weeks ago against the dippers (I think) he had to be stopped from chinning someone by Milner over an innocuous challenge and then on Sunday he needlessly tries to tread on Parker (and my own inclination is this was 80:20 a deliberate act).
We are Manchester City, we are challenging for the title for the first time since 1977, and we have just 3 proper strikers at the club. We need someone who puts himself second and City first, someone who won't be banned for almost a quarter of the season, someone who won't indulge himself at every opportunity. It's only the fact that showing Mario the door is exactly what the media want us to do, that makes me baulk against such a course of action, but if I was Mancini I'd be in the market for a 4th striker right now (Podolski maybe) cos I'd be willing to bet you a pound to a piece of shit that between now and May, Mario will get himself sent off again. He's a complete liability and we have to either legislate for that fact, either by getting proper cover in or by going on the offensive with the press like Taggart does whenever Shrek gets caught putting the boot in, or say ta ta altogether. Either way, things can't go on as they are. Our season is just too important for stupidity
 
ban-mcfc said:
Pam said:
Jesus Christ, my nerves are shot. People should calm down. It is not yet February and people are losing it. What is it going to be like by bastard April?
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this title challenge is more stressful than a relegation battle!

by august i'll be fucking grey and i'll have only turned 20!
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Tell me about it. I had no idea how pressurised a prem title race could get.
 
He should leave. He can’t win - he’ll be treated with prejudice by referees and the FA whenever he plays. He’s no angel, but the threshold for refs/FA banning him by comparison to other players is just too low. He either needs to leave this shit hole of a Country (and lets face it, why be here if you didn’t have to be), or maybe go and play for United, but it would be better for us and much, much better for him if he left.
 
mods delete this embarrasing thread please

anyone could read it.
 
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