Mario Balotelli [On the Road to Ballon d'or)

[Tee]

Rodgers could have just said he has a knock but instead he chats on and makes the story about Mario on a day we lost. Now there's a surprise!

[fidget]

Rodgers could have just said he has a knock but instead he chats on and makes the story about Mario on a day we lost. Now there's a surprise!

£16m is a decent price for a ready made excuse/deflection

[MrMichael]

Rodgers could have just said he has a knock but instead he chats on and makes the story about Mario on a day we lost. Now there's a surprise!

Which is a reasonable point (if that's what he actually has done), however if the report is true is that really the biggest thing to take out of it, a dig at Rodgers rather than looking at the £16m striker on £100k/week who can't be arsed to make himself available to play?

[fidget]

Which is a reasonable point (if that's what he actually has done), however if the report is true is that really the biggest thing to take out of it, a dig at Rodgers rather than looking at the £16m striker on £100k/week who can't be arsed to make himself available to play?

Rodgers needs to stop airing dirty laundry in public- end of.

[Yozza]

Rodgers needs to stop airing dirty laundry in public- end of.

Why is it 'end of'?

If there's a work shy cunt on the books mugging us off around £80k a week then the fans ought to know the truth

[MrMichael]

Rodgers needs to stop airing dirty laundry in public- end of.

Saying "end of" does not actually actually make a disputable point indisputable

The only quote I've seen from Rodgers, and there may be others admittedly, is...

"He trained yesterday afternoon with the team and he took a knock, a slight knock to his knee, and he deemed it not able to travel with the team."

Is that really "airing dirty laundry" or is it just answering a question factually about Mario's absence?

It definitely isn't "deflecting blame" anyway, but if the implication he made is that other players with greater commitment might have travelled / played with such a minor issue then I really don't see how Rodgers' comments are the biggest problem here.

[Tee]

His wording is deliberate in that he is clearly trying to show Mario to be in the wrong. He could easily have said "we" deemed him unable to travel. No need to feed the media more stories imo.

[dom9]

I guess it depends on whether you have an agenda MrM.

Look for sticks. Find sticks. Hunt the manager down.

[MrMichael]

His wording is deliberate in that he is clearly trying to show Mario to be in the wrong. He could easily have said "we" deemed him unable to travel. No need to feed the media more stories imo.

Far as I can see from the aggregator sites like lfclive, the media have basically ignored it and are all running stories about Sterling again, maybe people are making more of it than is there.

Besides from the sound of it we deemed him ok to travel, why should he lie to protect a player that potentially doesn't give a **** about us (if that's how it should be read)?

[RichC]

Mario does seem to cry off sick a lot.

[McDermotX]

Mario does seem to cry off sick a lot.

'You don't know him etc etc etc etc' blah blah instagram video blah blah

Was bored with this fool years ago. Don't wanna hear the excuses, but he should never have been signed.

[frank the tank]

I bet that ****in pleb doing the ice bucket challenge outside melwood the night he signed feels like a right dope now....

[danperkins]

What a shocking waste of money. Useless *******

[BobTheCharmer]

What a shocking waste of money. Useless *******

Mario seems to get worse the more he doesn't actually play, that's quite some achievement!

He's a good player. Just because he's not suited to our system of running around a lot, doesn't make it any different. Wrong player for us. So far wrong its actually unbelievable anyone sanctioned the signing. Same goes for Lambert.

[Exiled_red]

Mario seems to get worse the more he doesn't actually play, that's quite some achievement!

He's a good player. Just because he's not suited to our system of running around a lot, doesn't make it any different. Wrong player for us. So far wrong its actually unbelievable anyone sanctioned the signing. Same goes for Lambert.