Mario Balotelli
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Rodgers needs to decide his plan for our attacj and stick with it. Seems to be changing weekly.
Either drop him, or play a partner with him
Not having that. Watch Benzema last night. Loads of times he came short and wide to receive the ball. He held it up, released it and within seconds was in the box. Balotelli comes, miscontrols it, lays it off and then thinks that's my work done and starts bimbling towards the box or pulling wide in the hope he can do his one trick pony thing. You know, where he cuts in from the right and tries to twat it dead hard. He's pure shite which is reinforced by his laziness and stupidity.
Yes he's been very shite for us.
But I don't hate him. In fact I feel for him. It's bleeding obvious Mario's a very confused lad, and depressed isn't too wrong either.
If Gazza went completely mental after his career dwindled, Mario seems to be gaining a step ahead of Gazza, in that he's self-destructing at a much earlier age. The problem is he doesn't want to stop it cos he's a very angry man right now.
We can't afford to psychotherapise him while paying him lots of money a week.
He should just leave for everyone's own good.
But I don't hate him. In fact I feel for him. It's bleeding obvious Mario's a very confused lad, and depressed isn't too wrong either.
If Gazza went completely mental after his career dwindled, Mario seems to be gaining a step ahead of Gazza, in that he's self-destructing at a much earlier age. The problem is he doesn't want to stop it cos he's a very angry man right now.
We can't afford to psychotherapise him while paying him lots of money a week.
He should just leave for everyone's own good.
Yeah, I do think there's some mental root to his issues, which does make me have a touch of sympathy for him. But the bottom line for us is that the cost us a fair amount of money and he's not putting in a shift, he doesn't look likely to either. And for all the trying to pinpoint the source of his problems, there's really much you can do to excuse a complete inability to close people down (like the 3rd goal) and the swapping shirts incident.
I have never liked him as a person or as a footballer. That has not changed. I fear it never will. I dreadful signing and a black mark against Rodgers that he thought he would be the one to get the best from this overgrown child. Horrible attitude, piss poor effort, self-obsessed child.
I've demoted him. He's gone from being a merde sac to an outright shit bag.
What the fuck are you on about? Heskey? He was a major player for us as we won numerous trophies. I'm getting sick of this media driven revisionist attitude to one of our players. Ballotelli isn't fit to lace Heskey's boots.
I watched benzema, he had willing runners going in to the box in Ronaldo and isco. He had players to play off and lay the ball to.
Balotelli needs someone to play off him. Sterling and Coutinho kept their distance from him. Only Allen seemed to run for balo.
That's not to say sterling and Coutinho weren't good, they just offered nothing for mario
This is his fucking heat map. Fuck off
Rodgers might as well now say to Lambert, 'You'll be the first choice striker at least until January, stop fretting over form and just go out and go for goals'. Because he's probably only around for a year, he might as well have a go and he'll certainly work for the team more than bloody Balotelli.
Huge difference to the Suarez offerings from last season..
This is his fucking heat map. Fuck off
Lazy Cunt
Balotelli doesn't need someone to play off him, he needs someone to do all the work and graft for him.
I think it's all too easy to blame the shite result on Balotelli. Just because he didn't run around like a madman. He worked as hard as I expected him to work. Not much less than Coutinho.
I liken Balotelli to Berbatov. You know what you get when you play him. He's got a great touch and requires supporting runners ahead/around him. And he's never going to work his bollocks off for a team. I think more criticism should be aimed at Rodgers for signing such a player who cannot play upfront by himself, and then compound it, by actually playing him upfront by himself.
Balotelli (unlike Lambert imo) is actually physically and technically good enough to be at Liverpool (mentally there's a question still). But as a 3rd or 4th striker. A bit like how he was at City. The problem in the past for him, was he too high maintenance for a player 3rd/4th choice in the pecking order. If his attitude was what it's been off the pitch, I'd have no problems with keeping him as a squad member and a plan B, off the bench. But right now, he's our second choice striker when everyone is fit, and that's a problem when you consider Sturridge's injury record.
The sad thing about the shirt thing.. he didn't instigate it..
Pepe asked him...
Blown out of proportion if you ask me..
lets all Blame Balotteli..
This is like the world cup.. England out of the world cup, Suarez bites someone.. focus taken away from a dread awful campaign from England..
Here lets all Blame Balotelli.. I actually though he had a decent first half... The blame lies elsewhere... the Keeper being one of them...
Pepe asked him...
Blown out of proportion if you ask me..
lets all Blame Balotteli..
This is like the world cup.. England out of the world cup, Suarez bites someone.. focus taken away from a dread awful campaign from England..
Here lets all Blame Balotelli.. I actually though he had a decent first half... The blame lies elsewhere... the Keeper being one of them...
This is his fucking heat map. Fuck off
And what was it BR was telling him about getting into the 6 yd box ? Never mind the whole penalty area ! That is pretty disgusting for a CF supposedly leading the line.
This is his fucking heat map. Fuck off
This is not too bad for a striker, considering he only had 45 minutes on the pitch.
Frogfish, the map shows touches of the ball – he might have been stationed inside the penalty area, but absent an accurate cross or pass it will not show up on the heat map.
I liken him to David Nugent i,e. he's just plain shite - regardless of lack of effort. And he's stupid as well when it comes to game intelligence.
The point was in regards to being perceived as an overall failure. If you like you can swap Heskey for Neil Mellor, the same point stands.
He offers too little to our team and is potentially actually detrimental to how Rodgers wants us to play.
In rowing we would call him a 'handbrake' or 'rhythm tampon' because he actually disrupts how the team wants to play.
Great, he sometimes holds the ball up well but his positioning/ runs (or lack of)/ ability to pass to team mates/ play intricately around the box are all sub par. I hope after this he isn't even in the Hull squad - he needs a kick up the arse and we need to give other players a run.
In rowing we would call him a 'handbrake' or 'rhythm tampon' because he actually disrupts how the team wants to play.
Great, he sometimes holds the ball up well but his positioning/ runs (or lack of)/ ability to pass to team mates/ play intricately around the box are all sub par. I hope after this he isn't even in the Hull squad - he needs a kick up the arse and we need to give other players a run.
Don't know why there is a fuss over him swapping shirts at half time. Isn't it traditional to swap shirts when the game is over?
Well, then he could already swap it after the shakehands before the match the way he plays.
BR: Any action I would take with Mario would be kept within ourselves. Of course, we had a conversation on the culture of this club.
BR: There’s been no reaction to Mario Balotelli’s shirt swap from the rest of the squad and speculation is inevitable.
BR: You have to accept that criticism is part of the game, but the boy [Balotelli] is trying very, very hard. We’ll see how that turns out.
BR: As long as he’s doing his best, that’s all I can ask. But that’s the same for every player, not just Mario.
BR: There’s been no reaction to Mario Balotelli’s shirt swap from the rest of the squad and speculation is inevitable.
BR: You have to accept that criticism is part of the game, but the boy [Balotelli] is trying very, very hard. We’ll see how that turns out.
BR: As long as he’s doing his best, that’s all I can ask. But that’s the same for every player, not just Mario.
I doubt even Dirk would continue to run into supporting positions time after time after watching him being a ball greedy numbskull and ballooning 8 or 9 shots high and wide from about 30-40 yards or straight into a defender every game!
I reckon he's bored with the whole thing and has stayed with it solely for the money and the lifestyle. I doubt he's the only player who feels like that, but not many are immature enough not to give a rat's about showing it to those who pay their wages.
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