Mario Balotelli

[Gym Beglin]

Borini not even on the bench today, that's fucking small time from Brendan. Whatever his beef with Borini is it shouldn't affect the team, and right now he's our best striker.

[Mr Grumpy]

What is the point of this guy? Does he offer pace? Ability to hold up the ball? Intelligent movement? Creativity? Out and out goalscorer? Honestly I can't see any of these.

 

Is he really that hopeless without a striking partner?

[JermainePennant]

Lack of confidence is the main problem with Mario right now, he knows he's not playing well and with no other attacking player stepping up and scoring some goals balotelli is taking all the criticism and pressure.

 

Nothing has changed for me and I still think he will be a success after he gets a couple of goals and when hopefully the rest of the team step up and take some of the pressure off him.

[Elite]

He's completely wrong for us, I am sick of seeing his mongy deadpan face every time he fucks up. Which is a lot.

[Spy Bee]

I hate to admit it, but Joey Barton's assessment of him weeks ago was spot on. He's awful.

[Paco]

needs a goal. very fragile when playing without confidence. infuriating to watch.

[Boss]

I hate to admit it, but Joey Barton's assessment of him weeks ago was spot on. He's awful.

 

[liverpoolsno9]

His lack of confidence is the main problem? How about his lack of team ethic, his lack of workrate, his general lack of giving a fuck?

[an tha]

He can't play as the focal point of the attack, I don't think we will see anything near him being effective until Sturridge is back, question is though can we accommodate him even then.

 

Funnily enough I reckon he will have a stormer on weds though...

[JustTosh]

He's got until January I suppose. Then we'll se what happes to him and Borini. If he refuses to improve we'd be better off keeping Borini than Balotelli.

[John101]

Come back Victor, all is forgiven.

[magicrat]

For the first one the ball was in the net before Mario even noticed the free kick had been taken. For the last one Mario for once did make a run I'd expect him to do all match. Still, well played by Mario.

 

Overall as bad as it gets from Mario. His attidtude needs improvement, big time.

 

It's early days yet, but I'm beginning to loose any faith I had in him. Hope I'm wrong. Maybe when he scores his first it'll change. Hard to see how he'll get his first though.

 

Spotted that. The daft cunt was wandering away from the goal in a world of his own with his back to spot where the fk was being taken. He really is a joke of footballer, 

[bizzle10]

We been done i bet Milan couldnt believe their luck when we came in with a 16mill offer he is shite offers nothing apart from wondering around aimlessly our season is resting on sturridge hamstring

[clangers]

I'm assuming that he'll start to misbehave fairly shortly and throw his toys out of the pram?

[Duff Man]

It's not his work rate that worries me. It's more that he doesn't seem to have a fucking clue what he's doing.

[Paco]

It's not his work rate that worries me. It's more that he doesn't seem to have fucking clue what he's doing.

his decision making is terrible.

[Paulie Dangerously]

He missed another sitter today. Worse than the derby even. After that he seemed to actually try a bit but jist blasted shots against the nearest defender.

 

Garbage

[Boss]

He's done as far as i'm concerned i won't even waste another second analysing him. He's shit and he's not going to succeed here.

[Paco]

He missed another sitter today. Worse than the derby even. After that he seemed to actually try a bit but jist blasted shots against the nearest defender.

 

Garbage

its the shooting at the wrong time that pisses me off plus thst one near the end he tried to flick.

 

also the constant holding his head and looking for fouls. you re built like a heavyweight boxer mario get on with it.

[magicrat]

We been done i bet Milan couldnt believe their luck when we came in with a 16mill offer he is shite offers nothing apart from wondering around aimlessly our season is resting on sturridge hamstring

The point is we haven't. We knew all about him .Rodgers had already said earlier in the summer he wasn't interested . A mixture of arrogance and desperation led us to do a complete 180 .

Arrogance that Rodgers must have believed he could succeed where others had failed to sort the bloke out and desperation because we had fucked about the whole summer despite having the funds , the momentum , CL football , the Suarez money and not signed a top striker. That was unforgivable really especially as we had Remy flown out to the States to sign the fucking contract but to compound the fuck up we didn't stick with what we had until January and panicked .I hope we just bench Balotelli now because to continue playing him is going to cost us games . We were exceptionally lucky today and we were lucky against Spurs that they didn't punish us for his stupid early misses. If he continues to play the next thing is he will start to misbehave. Cut our losses now , 

[Jairzinho]

Lazy, selfish, and thick.

[RedKnight]

I was likening him to a rich man's Cisse. Now I'm not so sure, he might be a poor man's Cisse.

[magicrat]

I was likening him to a rich man's Cisse. Now I'm not so sure, he might be a poor man's Cisse.

More like Ryan Babel without his eye for goal 

[eeyore]

Balotelli is making me seriously dislike Rogers for playing him every game.

 

Play borini, a kid from u21s, lambert or just play with all midfielders.

 

Anything but this fucking clown, the single reason why we are so bad this season and I said it at the villa game.

[clangers]

I was likening him to a rich man's Cisse. Now I'm not so sure, he might be a poor man's Cisse.

Would take Cisse in a heartbeat. Mario's just traded on his celebrity insanity that disguises the fact that he's not very good. Kind of a reverse Sturridge, had lots of opportunities at decently sized clubs, clubs have invested in him and yet the clubs have always been happy to see the back of him.

 

I just don't understand the thought process that led us to sign him. I don't blame him, I do blame the individuals that thought it would be a good idea. We're just not at the point of being able to indulge a player at the moment.

 

My concern now is that he doesn't come across as someone who will take responsibility and roll his sleeves up. He's not exactly mature or stable. I expect a massive sulk followed by significant off-field disruption. He'll probably bolt to Italy blaming English football (again). He'll become a distraction.