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

[kev776]

Just depressing who we are linked with

[tanner]

Benteke is hardly **** ... just not the striker 99.99% of the fans think we need ...

Carroll ... Ballotelli .... Lambert ... Benteke no .. just no already

I think most of us now think we have a squad of players needed to see out a season, what we need to start adding is genuine quality. Hence the apparent frustration when linked with Ings, Benteke, etc. We desperately need a hard working star player for a start.

[red g]

Just depressing who we are linked with

Maybe its just FSG leaking ****e names to the media for us to hate Brendan more.....and in steps Klopp with all his fancy dan foreigners and the world is good again.

[Tatterdemalion]

The moment we signed him it was obvious he was stuck here for at least 2-3 seasons regardless of how useless he would become. Did any one actually believe he'd be sold so quickly?

Yes, I believed it was low cost risk, because we were confident that if it didn't work out we'd get most of our outlay ba... oh wait... "didn't work out" is a bit of an understatement isn't it..

[Tatterdemalion]

So we bring in the mighty Ings and Benteke, find out no one will take Balotelli, Lambert or Borini off us so end up with 5 **** strikers.

yay our transfer policy EPIC

[topscorer]

So we bring in the mighty Ings and Benteke, find out no one will take Balotelli, Lambert or Borini off us so end up with 5 **** strikers.

Lambert will be sold no problem and even if he isn't he's not a big problem having as backup, at least he's a local lad is t he? We will have buyers for Borini as well but his value has probably dropped considerably from what we could have got last summer if the prick had gone to Sunderland.

Balotelli is the real problem and like most people at the time I thought he was a reasonable gamble and that we could recuperate most of the fee if it didn't work out. Not work out, **** if only!

[Exiled_red]

Lambert will be sold no problem and even if he isn't he's not a big problem having as backup, at least he's a local lad is t he? We will have buyers for Borini as well but his value has probably dropped considerably from what we could have got last summer if the prick had gone to Sunderland.

Balotelli is the real problem and like most people at the time I thought he was a reasonable gamble and that we could recuperate most of the fee if it didn't work out. Not work out, **** if only!

Lambert is the one I would be most likely to keep, I don't think Balotelli will dig his heels in too much as there are the Euros next summer so if he wants to go to that presumably he needs to be playing, if it is clear he won't get games that could make him easier to shift if we are prepared to take a loss on the fee

[topscorer]

Lambert is the one I would be most likely to keep, I don't think Balotelli will dig his heels in too much as there are the Euros next summer so if he wants to go to that presumably he needs to be playing, if it is clear he won't get games that could make him easier to shift if we are prepared to take a loss on the fee

I'm not sure whether the issue will be his willingness to leave. I think it's going to be who's going to want to buy him and for how much?

Maybe he'll get his head down and have an average season for us if he stays and wants to go to the Euros. Not sure he gives a **** to be honest.

[Nicey]

Lambert is the one I would be most likely to keep, I don't think Balotelli will dig his heels in too much as there are the Euros next summer so if he wants to go to that presumably he needs to be playing, if it is clear he won't get games that could make him easier to shift if we are prepared to take a loss on the fee

[Exiled_red]

I'm not sure whether the issue will be his willingness to leave. I think it's going to be who's going to want to buy him and for how much?

Maybe he'll get his head down and have an average season for us if he stays and wants to go to the Euros. Not sure he gives a **** to be honest.

He's not going to go to a top club a but he could do a decent job for a side in the top 3-6 of the main leagues in Europe, if they play to his strengths. My guess would be that we should be able to get at least about half of our money back on him.

Hopefully he really wants to go to the Euros and will move somewhere to play games, but as you say there is a very real chance that he doesn't give a ****. I just hope we sell him, I'll be really annoyed if we decide to loan him out to an Italian club like we have done previously with players.

[danperkins]

There's always a club or a manager that will think they'll get the best out of Balotelli. Anything over £10 million would be ok consider what a flop he's been. Surely there's some mug over in Italy that will consider it??

[Bender]

There's always a club or a manager that will think they'll get the best out of Balotelli. Anything over £10 million would be ok consider what a flop he's been. Surely there's some mug over in Italy that will consider it??

If we find a club stupider than Lfc to sign Balotelli that in itself will be a miracle but either way it's been a financial disaster one the club keeps making.

[danperkins]

If we find a club stupider than Lfc to sign Balotelli that in itself will be a miracle but either way it's been a financial disaster one the club keeps making.

Aye, another one to add to a growing list of financial cluster****s.

[MrMichael]

Worth pointing out perhaps that if you read the first few pages of this thread, the general consensus was that for around £15m the Ballotelli purchase was relatively risk free financially. It wasn't just the transfer committee who thought his value would be pretty insulated, sure there were a few voices *waves* who always thought it would be a disaster on the pitch but even I am not convinced this one should go in the obvious-to-anyone financial ****up category with the Carroll's and Drownings etc.

[dww]

Worth pointing out perhaps that if you read the first few pages of this thread, the general consensus was that for around £15m the Ballotelli purchase was relatively risk free financially. It wasn't just the transfer committee who thought his value would be pretty insulated, sure there were a few voices *waves* who always thought it would be a disaster on the pitch but even I am not convinced this one should go in the obvious-to-anyone financial ****up category with the Carroll's and Drownings etc.

I think people in general (not just in football) find it difficult to interpret risk (I suppose what probabilities mean but that is another story).