***Official Balo Watch Thread***

[Slim]

Nothing wrong with him putting himself about at training.

Keep making excuses.

[CityGer]

Nothing wrong with him putting himself about at training.

@Kapil, I don't normally like gifs in signatures but I could watch that freekick all day.

Jesus. I can't believe how blind some people are to what a turd he is.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Nothing wrong with him putting himself about at training.

@Kapil, I don't normally like gifs in signatures but I could watch that freekick all day.

Jesus. I can't believe how blind some people are to what a turd he is.

He scored 10 goals and is therefore the second coming.

[kinkylola]

from the way the article was worded ... I really don't understand what is so outrageous about a heavy/poorly timed challenge in training. I think it is probably fairly common. You apologize, someone has a word and you get on with training. It also mentions that it probably would have been nothing if it hadn't been mario? how is this a big deal? I'm honestly asking ...

[Douglas Higginbottom]

from the way the article was worded ... I really don't understand what is so outrageous about a heavy/poorly timed challenge in training. I think it is probably fairly common. You apologize, someone has a word and you get on with training. It also mentions that it probably would have been nothing if it hadn't been mario? how is this a big deal? I'm honestly asking ...

I decided not to mention it in the training report as I don't want to be seen being sensationalist or negative.To use the word unsavoury is typical press stuff anyway.Tevez was cutting in on his full back and looking to get a shot away.Mario was just being him and very deliberately clipped his ankle to trip him up.Tevez was not surprisingly pretty angry but Mancini was more angry no doubt becaue it could have caused an injury.It was a stupid petulant sort of challenge and not a heavily poorly timed challenge.He knew exactly what what he was doing and timed it perfectly.

Mancini shouted at Mario from about 20 yards or so and he basically took no notice of him!The picture was not from immediately after the incident but probably after the whole session finished. As for this sort of thing happening all the time in training, it doesn't. Some hard challenges and maybe mistimes ones yes but not this kind of silly,deliberate niggly ones.

[gaudy]

Get a fuckin grip.a tough tackle at trainin and yer cryin about what a dick he is!
Yes he's a cock but another shit story about a challenge at training and the linch mob is out,
Pull it together if it was any other player it wud not have been mentioned.
Was Carlos on the ground rolling in agony?
Was it that bad that the players surrounded him?
Did Carlos think to have a go at him?all no,because it wud have been wrote if it did.
Another shit pointless story,another reason for some posters to survey it with blinkers on.
He's a clown and a spoilt child but some comments on here are as childish as the antics he gets up to.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Get a fuckin grip.a tough tackle at trainin and yer cryin about what a dick he is!
Yes he's a cock but another shit story about a challenge at training and the linch mob is out,
Pull it together if it was any other player it wud not have been mentioned.
Was Carlos on the ground rolling in agony?
Was it that bad that the players surrounded him?
Did Carlos think to have a go at him?all no,because it wud have been wrote if it did.
Another shit pointless story,another reason for some posters to survey it with blinkers on.
He's a clown and a spoilt child but some comments on here are as childish as the antics he gets up to.

I actually think Carlos would have had a go had it NOT been Mario.He was initially very angry but when he realised who it was and that the manager was quickly on his case he decided to get on with the game.

[ashton287]

I havent read the story, bored of reading about the pleb to be honest.

He was a cunt when we signed him, is a cunt now and will forever be a cunt. Might score a goal or 3 before the end of the season though.

[Renato_CTID]

The next will be the last three months of Balo's saga at Eastlands. That's what I heard yesterday evening from a Sky Italy journalist at the end of Torino-Grosseto. It's unbelievable how Bobby Manc could have ignored the risk of signing a twat like Mario! And it's a shame how many pounds City have spent for him!

[Ted Hughes]

from the way the article was worded ... I really don't understand what is so outrageous about a heavy/poorly timed challenge in training. I think it is probably fairly common. You apologize, someone has a word and you get on with training. It also mentions that it probably would have been nothing if it hadn't been mario? how is this a big deal? I'm honestly asking ...

I decided not to mention it in the training report as I don't want to be seen being sensationalist or negative.To use the word unsavoury is typical press stuff anyway.Tevez was cutting in on his full back and looking to get a shot away.Mario was just being him and very deliberately clipped his ankle to trip him up.Tevez was not surprisingly pretty angry but Mancini was more angry no doubt becaue it could have caused an injury.It was a stupid petulant sort of challenge and not a heavily poorly timed challenge.He knew exactly what what he was doing and timed it perfectly.

Mancini shouted at Mario from about 20 yards or so and he basically took no notice of him!The picture was not from immediately after the incident but probably after the whole session finished. As for this sort of thing happening all the time in training, it doesn't. Some hard challenges and maybe mistimes ones yes but not this kind of silly,deliberate niggly ones.

If he's doing it to his team mates there's a fair chance he'll be continuing to do it to the opposition.

[Mike J]

amazed that people still cannot see what an arsehole this bloke is.

[bluej]

from the way the article was worded ... I really don't understand what is so outrageous about a heavy/poorly timed challenge in training. I think it is probably fairly common. You apologize, someone has a word and you get on with training. It also mentions that it probably would have been nothing if it hadn't been mario? how is this a big deal? I'm honestly asking ...

I decided not to mention it in the training report as I don't want to be seen being sensationalist or negative.To use the word unsavoury is typical press stuff anyway.Tevez was cutting in on his full back and looking to get a shot away.Mario was just being him and very deliberately clipped his ankle to trip him up.Tevez was not surprisingly pretty angry but Mancini was more angry no doubt becaue it could have caused an injury.It was a stupid petulant sort of challenge and not a heavily poorly timed challenge.He knew exactly what what he was doing and timed it perfectly.

Mancini shouted at Mario from about 20 yards or so and he basically took no notice of him!The picture was not from immediately after the incident but probably after the whole session finished. As for this sort of thing happening all the time in training, it doesn't. Some hard challenges and maybe mistimes ones yes but not this kind of silly,deliberate niggly ones.

In which case I change what I said earlier, the way I read the article before it made it sound like a poorly timed challenge. If it's for something as stupid as tripping a player up in training then that is a daft thing to do, and as you say, could have caused an injury.

Just for the record (not aimed at you Doug), I don't think I've ever made 'excuses' for Balotelli's behaviour, the usual suspects are out in force trying to make something out of nothing again.

[john68]

Looking at the much wider picture...Can we afford to risk such thoutlessness. I actually enjoy Balotelli and his antics are somewhat of a cabaret but his lack of thought before he acts could harm us and our ambitions. We have already seen the shit he caused versus Kiev and how that cost us. Can we afford anything similar next season when the pressue might be greater, chasing the league title and challenging in the CL?

He worries me.

[ant london]

agree with Ted and with John.....if he, after all the public contrition of late about how he needs help, does something in training to his captain then he is a fucking idiot. If he can't stop himself from doing this in the "seething cauldron atmosphere" that is training at Carrington then honestly what chance does he have of reining himself in during a pressure situation in a match.

He's behaving like a prick in this instance and I have no excuses for him. What I would like to see though is the fucking clown who brought him in actually DOING something to try and sort him out and make him an asset rather than a liability. No more of the eee eeez young bollocks. I like Mario but it is clear as day that something needs to change with him and that change is patently NOT going to come from within so Mancini. He is the one who sold the concept of Mario to the owner and board and he'd better do something or I could see Mr Balotelli getting Mancini his p45

[john68]

I have no doubt at all that Mancini and probably every other member of the City staff are doing everything in their power to get balotelli to see sense.
I don't think it is about the effort they are making on his behalf, it is simply that Mario is too thick to take it on board, or too involved with his personal issues that he is unable to act on what he is being told.
It must be driving Mancini nuts.

[bigblue]

I have no doubt at all that Mancini and probably every other member of the City staff are doing everything in their power to get balotelli to see sense.
I don't think it is about the effort they are making on his behalf, it is simply that Mario is too thick to take it on board, or too involved with his personal issues that he is unable to act on what he is being told.
It must be driving Mancini nuts.

I think there is also a bit of saving face by Mancini to justify the investment of both money and time that he has put into Balo. If we just sell of (or loan out) Balo after a year without him coming good first, it reflects bad on Mancini's judgement. I think Balo realizes this too (at least I think Mancini has sternly reminded him of it)

[Wooders]

hows he gonna upstage rooney

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I hope he plays today...

I think he will but I wouldnt go so far as to say I hope he plays.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I hope he plays today...

I think he will but I wouldnt go so far as to say I hope he plays.

Ok rephrased...

I hope he scores today....

Now that I will go for. A late hat trick would be great

[ayrshireblue]

He's really played for the team today. More of the same please Mario and you're welcome to stay.