Mario Taking City To A Tribunal

[Ted Hughes]

Here is Stuart's take on the story.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... -balotelli

Enough is enough from both sides surely ?

It's not working for City or for Balotelli but I recon his agent is keen for him to see out his contract, then they can both split all of the money from his next move. Time for Txiki to step in if Bob won't do it.

[Nigels Tackle]

mario needs an agent that doesn't just see him as a money... the cunt looking after him right now is more like his fucking pimp

[Chinners]

I love the way the MuEN 'reveal' stuff 2 days after everyone else

[Mike J]

I cannot wait for this fucking moron to leave the club.

[sheblue]

if we get a half decent offer for him he should go in jan.

[Green & Blue]

I cannot wait for this fucking moron to leave the club.

I'm begining to feel the same way myself.As far as I can see City have done as much as they can to accomadate Mario but he just continues to throw it back in our faces.I feel sorry for Mancini as he has shown a blind fate in Mario but he just does not seem capable or willing to repay that faith.It's a shame really.I did not believe this story was for real at first, even by Marios standards this is surprising.

[Goaters 103]

He's been indulged far too often by Mancini, and must now be on final chance number 26.

Has shown some flashes of brilliance, but also too many games where he's just tossed it off and has quite frankly been a joke.

A parting of the ways is ideal for both parties, as the novelty of dealing with the Mario sideshow wore off some time ago. However we need to be smart and not give him away - pretend we really want him to stay, and then "reluctantly" accept bids from PSG. Jokeshop loan offers from Italian clubs pleading poverty, should be dealt with short shrift and the scorn they deserve. Juve have the money - if they want him, stump up the £30m.

[Sister of fu]

Get shot of this oxygen thief. I would rather have a bloody fan on the pitch than him, at least you know they would give their heart and soul to the cause.

[Ted Hughes]

I've defended him this season, as I think he's done ok but it is 'ok' not brilliant. For the same money, we could have had a 30 goal striker, a world class cb or a Silva class midfielder & even allowing for Bob, it could have made the difference between us being 2nd now or top of the league or even still in the Champions League.

This is not the action of a bloke who is desperate to do what Mancini wants & imo Mancini himself is increasingly more antagonistic towards Balotelli but still refusing to sell him.

The decision should be taken out of his hands. We are going to have to take a hit on him too imo, nobody will pay the money we paid, exept perhaps PSG.

[Hazy2]

I've defended him this season, as I think he's done ok but it is 'ok' not brilliant. For the same money, we could have had a 30 goal striker, a world class cb or a Silva class midfielder & even allowing for Bob, it could have made the difference between us being 2nd now or top of the league or even still in the Champions League.

This is not the action of a bloke who is desperate to do what Mancini wants & imo Mancini himself is increasingly more antagonistic towards Balotelli but still refusing to sell him.

The decision should be taken out of his hands. We are going to have to take a hit on him too imo, nobody will pay the money we paid, exept perhaps PSG.

Ted, his time at City is up. To let that muppet Wio have a day of in the Derby was a sackable offence mate. Mario, after the Euro's and his outstanding performances for Italy is taking the piss.

[Ted Hughes]

I've defended him this season, as I think he's done ok but it is 'ok' not brilliant. For the same money, we could have had a 30 goal striker, a world class cb or a Silva class midfielder & even allowing for Bob, it could have made the difference between us being 2nd now or top of the league or even still in the Champions League.

This is not the action of a bloke who is desperate to do what Mancini wants & imo Mancini himself is increasingly more antagonistic towards Balotelli but still refusing to sell him.

The decision should be taken out of his hands. We are going to have to take a hit on him too imo, nobody will pay the money we paid, exept perhaps PSG.

Ted, his time at City is up. To let that muppet Wio have a day of in the Derby was a sackable offence mate. Mario, after the Euro's and his outstanding performances for Italy is taking the piss.

I think his performance in the derby was ok, better than Aguero's & I think if we had Pirlo, he would be identical to his Italy performances but I also think they were hugely overrated. He did well but the German cbs are no good, as Sweden showed us recently.

He is not playing badly but not especially good either. This action suggests he's not accepting Mancini's criticism anymore & with the arrival of his kid, I can see even more trouble ahead. It's just not worth it.

[sheblue]

no way will we get any more than 10-12m for him.
get rid and get someone in like ba or long or whoever, anyone actually, other than this village idiot.

[Dronny]

no way will we get any more than 10-12m for him.
get rid and get someone in like ba or long or whoever, anyone actually, other than this village idiot.

You know what, pre-money I'd have almost given my right nut for a player like Long. I really rate him and the job he does for the Baggies but I think we can dine at the top table now

[Hazy2]

I've defended him this season, as I think he's done ok but it is 'ok' not brilliant. For the same money, we could have had a 30 goal striker, a world class cb or a Silva class midfielder & even allowing for Bob, it could have made the difference between us being 2nd now or top of the league or even still in the Champions League.

This is not the action of a bloke who is desperate to do what Mancini wants & imo Mancini himself is increasingly more antagonistic towards Balotelli but still refusing to sell him.

The decision should be taken out of his hands. We are going to have to take a hit on him too imo, nobody will pay the money we paid, exept perhaps PSG.

Ted, his time at City is up. To let that muppet Wio have a day of in the Derby was a sackable offence mate. Mario, after the Euro's and his outstanding performances for Italy is taking the piss.

I think his performance in the derby was ok, better than Aguero's & I think if we had Pirlo, he would be identical to his Italy performances but I also think they were hugely overrated. He did well but the German cbs are no good, as Sweden showed us recently.

He is not playing badly but not especially good either. This action suggests he's not accepting Mancini's criticism anymore & with the arrival of his kid, I can see even more trouble ahead. It's just not worth it.

Sorry Ted his role was to make it stick and rip that wanker Wio to bits, he blew it with his failure to listen to instruction, and he was
behind silva instead of in front of him. sad in a lot of ways, but I get the impression Mancini has seen his arse with him. Sergio came alive without him, we came alive, This is a Derby at the end of the day,
I dont like the special one but he is right, work all week on a plan and Mario goes out and thinks fuck that. Game over.

[Spurge]

As i've said before Mario plays for Mario. Understanding the team ethic is more complicated than slipping a bib over your head as far as Mario is concerned.

I'm afraid his actions here has to signify the end of his career at City. If Mancini tries to put him under his wing and do the father figure bit again he will make his own position at City vulnerable to say the least. We have to draw a line under it and move him on in January, taking on the club in this very public fashion is a big mistake.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

As i've said before Mario plays for Mario. Understanding the team ethic is more complicated than slipping a bib over your head as far as Mario is concerned.

I'm afraid his actions here has to signify the end of his career at City. If Mancini tries to put him under his wing and do the father figure bit again he will make his own position at City vulnerable to say the least. We have to draw a line under it and move him on in January, taking on the club in this very public fashion is a big mistake.

I thought before the Arsenal away game last season that if Mancini picked Balotelli for that game it could spell the end of his managerial career with us, and it nearly did. Yet he still persists with him. It was interesting that Clichy said after the Newcastle game that we lacked spirit sometimes but that we got it back in that game, which I took as a direct criticism of Balotelli as he was absent from the squad this weekend. For me Balotelli needs fucking off in January if at all possible. He may well become a world-class player but with us he will never amount to anything more than a disruptive influence.

[avoidconfusion]

I can't remember the last time he had a decent game. Might have been the derby last year? Sorry but this clown's jokes just aren't funny anymore. Please get rid.

[Beefymcfc]

Why we desperately love to hate Manchester City's pantomime villain Mario Balotelli

If Aladdin had not crossed paths with Abanazar, the young tyke would very likely – via that Abu Dhabi-funded Genie – have enjoyed an uninterrupted, and rather uninteresting trip, to riches. Then, really to test his luck, he would have bought Manchester City.

And had the damnable JR not first come out of his mother’s womb, Bobby Ewing would almost certainly have tired of his oil wells and, in search of another stream of revenue, acquired Manchester United.

Alas, we have neither the space nor inclination to begin surmising what might have come to pass if one of Roman Abramovich’s relatives had not encountered David Mellor in a Chelsea shirt.

The point is that pantomimes, soap operas, life dramas, call them what you will, require their baddies. Otherwise you just have Arsenal.

That is why anyone with the slightest disregard for all which should be right about football will be wailing at the prospect of Mario Balotelli leaving the Premier League. It needs him. Exactly because the Premier League does not need him.

Rarely a week goes by without picking up a newspaper and encountering a “Football’s Day of Shame” headline. It’s like being in ancient Rome and trying to avoid a “Toga-three-in-a-bed” saga.

Being a football fan now is akin to being a childminder under King Herod’s “Crikey, are they all that bad?” we wonder, fretting whether we are immoral for feasting on a weekend’s sport which the columnists later inform us are the very entry bells of hell.

If I were a City supporter or a purist – if there is a difference – I would have buried my head in my hands and muttered, “Why, why, why?” when Roberto Mancini chose Balotelli the other week against Manchester United. As a golf journalist, out of season, on a day off, with not the worst excuse from home duty, I rang up my mates and said: “Let’s get to the pub at 11.15am, just to ensure we get a seat.” For some reason Edin Dzeko does not inspire the same urgency. And Carlos Tévez? Been there. Bought all six of the T-shirts.

Balotelli did not disappoint. Well, he did over 45 minutes – it was one of those halves, when he could not even be bothered to be nonchalant – but there has always been more with this man.

Just when you think, “ah, that’ll teach him a lesson” he contrives to pick up the blackboard rubber and hurl it at the teacher. He is basically suing Mancini for giving him double detention last year and for having to write 350,000 lines.

Do we want him to go? Not likely, we are losing our villains too quickly and too easily. In the last year, the tweeting Widow Twankey who is Joey Barton has left these shores for France, while Didier Drogba has ventured even further afield to somewhere they had obviously never heard of him.

Lose Mario and at this rate we will have a league of Michael Owens, all very thankful for earning £70,000-plus a week, but all very conciliatory. All we will be left with is stories of Gareth Barry questioning a referee’s parentage or – who could imagine it – Serbians getting into rows with Albanians. In short it would be the European golf tour – without Ian Poulter. Balotelli is a menace, a fool, an idiot, a waster of his extraordinary talent. But he is also a character. It took three hours to watch that soul-sucking exhibition of BBC arrogance on Sunday evening to realise British sport is in need of character.

Bradley Wiggins is a hero, an utter inspiration. Yet, I am sorry, what he does on a bike does not nearly satisfy our 52-week-a-year craving.

Balotelli is the bred and the nutter. You never know what will happen with him next – talent or tantrum or sulk. The same applied to Eric Cantona. If City sell him — as is their right — then we will be denied one of the more fascinating studies in human maturity.

Balotelli will crash or Balotelli will burn. There are instances of both. Cantona was a prime example of someone who flourished after the fires raged in his temperament and he did so in the Premier League’s fiercest glare. Why should Balotelli not follow suit? He is younger than King Eric was when he first swaggered in to Blighty. And he knows the pitfalls. He knows where madness will get you in Britain — the front pages to further madness.

So stay, Mario. Do not walk away. There will be no baddies left. Apart from John Terry. And that is all a bit serious.

[Beeks]

Even I've lost patience with the lad

I think the novelty is wearing off

[Swales4ever]

very nice sharing, Beef.
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