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

[Tribute]

sell him for £8m in Jan

...and a signed shirt

[Gray]

...and a signed shirt

Fat Sam will be interested to replace Donkey

[Tribute]

Fat Sam will be interested to replace Donkey

Only he could replace a donkey with an ass...

[Shaggy]

I'd seriously cut our losses in Jan but I don't see it happening. Couldn't be more obvious it's not going to work. I'd love to know what went on with the Remy thing. Are our medical procedures really more stringent than Chelsea's, Newcastle's and QPR's? Seems pretty strange.

[cream]

Why the hell didn't we go for Lacazette, right down our street. The Balotelli signing is was just madness, made no sense whatsoever.

[~LFCHistory~]

Why the hell didn't we go for Lacazette, right down our street. The Balotelli signing is was just madness, made no sense whatsoever.

Utterly idiotic signing on every possible level.

[Gazzla]

Balotelli has been hung out to dry, swapping shirts was brainless but he wasn't bad tonight at all but he's been held up as the sacrificial lamb. There were far worse culprits tonight than Balotelli

[topscorer]

Balotelli has been hung out to dry, swapping shirts was brainless but he wasn't bad tonight at all but he's been held up as the sacrificial lamb. There were far worse culprits tonight than Balotelli

Nah, he was bang average which, to be fair, is a huge improvement on the rest of his season but if he can only raise his game to bang average on a huge European night at Anfield against Real Madrid and is then brainless enough to swap shirts at half time then **** him.

[topscorer]

I'd seriously cut our losses in Jan but I don't see it happening. Couldn't be more obvious it's not going to work. I'd love to know what went on with the Remy thing. Are our medical procedures really more stringent than Chelsea's, Newcastle's and QPR's? Seems pretty strange.

Best we can hope for is a 5 year loan to some mid table Italian team to amortize the loss for FFP and get some wages off the bill.

Who the **** would be stupid enough to pay money for him at the moment.

[kingfunk]

At this moment, I'd have Torres over Ballotelli.

[Norbs]

You dirty bird

[vlahka]

Best we can hope for is a 5 year loan to some mid table Italian team to amortize the loss for FFP and get some wages off the bill.

Who the **** would be stupid enough to pay money for him at the moment.

Pretty much. No one is going to take him, not at his wages. He was never going to fit the team and always looked a high chance of being someone who we cant get rid of. Stupid move buying him. I never understood it.

[Tribute]

Drop Balotelli for the next 3-4 games and I bet our movement and tempo increases dramatically...

[Pablo]

Where to start? ****ing hell.

He's incredibly selfish
He has a shoot on sight policy that's showing no signs of changing
He wants a million touches when all he needs is one
He massively slows our play down
He has terrible vision often passing to no one
He gives the ball away far too often
He's average in the air
He shows no signs of aggression
He barely ever makes a run in behind the defence
He's never in the box for crosses
Every shot he seems to take is so telegraphed it gets blocked

There's probably more I've missed. Forget about how good he's meant to be it's his playing style that's the issue. He's the exact opposite of what we need in that position unfortunately. He's the anti-Liverpool. The anti-Rodgers.

Yes we have bigger issues in the team, but for me this experiment is OVER. That was his last chance; a massive game to inspire something great out of him. It didn't. Get him out of the team immediately. Given the playing time Balotelli's had I'm sure Lambert or Borini would have done much, much better. We spun the wheel, we lost. Sell.

[Tribute]

Where to start? ****ing hell.

He's incredibly selfish
He has a shoot on sight policy that's showing no signs of changing
He wants a million touches when all he needs is one
He massively slows our play down
He has terrible vision often passing to no one
He gives the ball away far too often
He's average in the air
He shows no signs of aggression
He barely ever makes a run in behind the defence
He's never in the box for crosses
Every shot he seems to take is so telegraphed it gets blocked

There's probably more I've missed. Forget about how good he's meant to be it's his playing style that's the issue. He's the exact opposite of what we need in that position unfortunately. He's the anti-Liverpool. The anti-Rodgers.

Yes we have bigger issues in the team, but for me this experiment is OVER. Get him out of the team immediately. Given the playing time Balotelli's had I'm sure Lambert or Borini would have done much, much better. We spun the wheel, we lost. Sell.

Spot on. Only ones you missed:

He has a terrible haircut
He's not to be trusted with fireworks
He swaps shirts with **** players