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Nice little interview, obviously not has pissed off as the papers are making out and speaks good English as well which I wasn't aware of. Must be a bonus to help him settle in.
Shame he didn't let him actually answer the question at the end when he said "Do I want to go back to Milan?"

Love you even more now B. He said he wants to be a very important player for this team. I think that answers all the critics

didnt even knew he could speak such good english, i think he is picked on too much i just think he is a cocky footballer and thinks he is the best out there, you need that if you want to be the best in the world but you also need to prove it on the pitch and for me the goals he is picking up and being so young and in a total diffrent country damn right he should be cocky i quite like the cheeky bugger.

8 goals 11 games..Balo does his talking on the pitch

BlueMoonAwoken wrote:didnt even knew he could speak such good english, i think he is picked on too much i just think he is a cocky footballer and thinks he is the best out there, you need that if you want to be the best in the world but you also need to prove it on the pitch and for me the goals he is picking up and being so young and in a total diffrent country damn right he should be cocky i quite like the cheeky bugger.

Neither did I. I must try to have a word:)

He can speak English....when he was booked at WHU and Kolo went over to him to placate him, you could seem him saying "it's mutherfucking bullshit man, just bullshit"

Someone musthave eventually had a word with Sky, because it's now been pixelated!

English is officially the first language of Ghana I think, which would explain his very good grasp of it.

Didn't know his English was that good, I really am beggining too warm too the little fucker, just keep banging them in Mario and youll soon become a legend!!

twosips wrote:English is officially the first language of Ghana I think, which would explain his very good grasp of it.

Why? He was born in Italy and raised by Italians.

He was raised by Ghanian immigrants apparently....according to wiki anyway.

twosips wrote:He was raised by Ghanian immigrants apparently....according to wiki anyway.

No he was born to Ghanaian immigrants but was adopted and raised by an Italian couple (hence the Italian surname). He has accused his biological parents of only wanting to know him again after he was famous, so presume he never had any contact with them. So I think he just learned English himself. Not really got a Ghanaian accent either, which you would expect if that was the reason why his English is so good.

Well I may be wrong. Either way, his English is impressive and surely it should help him settle in.

The papers reckon he's lonely in Manchester. He needs to pop around to Micah Richards' gaff with a PS3 and some games or sumat and relax and do what normal 20 year old lads do! I honestly reckon if he gets to know his team mates a bit better he'll be fine.

There's fortunately signs that we have quite a few decent personalities in our squad - Micah comes across as chirpy in interviews, VK and De Jong come across as witty, charming and intelligent, Boyata does too, and AJ seems a bit of a joker as does Lescott. Surely all of them can help him settle in. Sounds really cheesy, but he needs the 'lads' to help him. You can tell if he felt part of a group he'd enjoy. He clearly just wants to be loved. It's so obvious by his bad boy front he puts on.