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10 May 2015 19:41:21
Evening . It might pain a lot of people here but would like big Mario to stay and be forced to up his work rate by more starts and let him take the knocks up front while the rest play around him .

1.) 10 May 2015 20:05:35
Wow really. We need to shift asap and get as much as possible for him. We need a goal scorer

2.) 10 May 2015 20:36:31
He really is the first I want out of the door to be honest. At least the others train and try hard.

3.) 10 May 2015 20:43:02
Give up the ghost on that guy . He's a class A clown . Self diagnosing himself with the man flu etc .

4.) 10 May 2015 21:11:13
Berbatov had a similar disinterested in running swagger about his game but at least he scored goals, Mario just doesn't get the numbers from what I can tell. I remember Rodgers explaining that to qualify for the Champions League in the Premier League a team needs to score around the 70+ goals a season mark on average and Balotelli just doesn't look like he is capable of genuinely chipping in with enough to make that a possibility.

Without Sturridge chipping in the goals due to injury we have managed to muster together 50 goals and that is 11 goals less than Man United who have also conceded 3 goals less than us.

I do think the summer signings from last year will do better next time round on an individual performance basis but I don't think Balotelli buys into the "team ethos and ethic" that is required. He might be the lad of all lads but in football it's a numbers game and he hasn't got the work horse mentality we require from our players, we had all hoped the penny would drop and the lad would have grabbed the chance to show the League and world how unstoppable he could actually be, but he seems to save it for World Cups and European Championships. Maybe our style just isn't suited to his game but you have to adapt and overcome. Sadly Mario hasn't been able to do that for us.

Maybe it's unfair to compare him to Suarez but Suarez worked tirelessly even if he did get a few weeks off a season for stupid behaviour every 8 months or so. I know Borini is primed for,the exit door but I'd rather his work rate and desire to do well over Mario's, such a shame because Balotelli has ability but little desire to display it on a consistent basis, or so it seems. Or that's how I see it anyway.

5.) 10 May 2015 22:53:29
Mario was given too less minutes to gel into the team. gife him a second season to prove himself. We chop and change too many pkayers every year. We need consistency.
if br gets another year so should mario.
after 260 m he has not won a single trophy and yet he says he is the best person for the job!!!!!.
either both stay or both leave.
the playing style needs tweaking to reflect the opponent.
give mario a second chance. Everyone deserves a second chance.
Based one one season performance we cannot get rid of players or else henderson, lucas, srktle anx so many others would not be here. Keep the team together. A good bond of the players will deliver the goods.

6.) 10 May 2015 23:00:23
Balotelli's not even worth talking about in terms of a Liverpool future. He's a complete waste of talent, he'll never change his ways because he doesn't see anything wrong with being lazy and overindulgent, and we should offload him as soon as possible.

He might, if he's lucky, get a move to a club of comparable stature to Liverpool. But even if he does, he'll make a mess of that within 2 years and start sliding down the football ladder until he ends up in the MLS or the Middle East before his 30th birthday. But he won't be a worthwhile player to a big European club again.

7.) 10 May 2015 23:13:39
Both BR & Mario should leave, kit.

And as for Henderson & Lucas etc., the comparison is null & void. What was in doubt when they came in first was whether they had enough ability as footballers to adapt to being Liverpool players. Their desire, application and effort wasn't. More to the point, time was actually needed to see if they were good enough.

But nothing remains to be proven about Balotelli. Giving him more time will tell us nothing about him that we don't already now. I have no doubt he's a good enough player, he just doesn't try hard enough and isn't a team player. And he never bloody will. How do I know this? Because he he hasn't tried hard enough or played for the team his entire career. Why would he suddenly start now?

He expects every ball to be handed to him on a plate without having to bother with any sort of intelligent movement to get into space or in behind because he is so talented and special. He expects his need to take 17 touches more than is necessary, slowing down the play, and his need to try shots from 40 yards to be indulged because he is so talented and special. Man City about managed to indulge him for a season, and even then he only scored 13 league goals for them. Kuyt used to hit not too many short of that and was (wrongly) derided as a donkey rather than some sort of special misunderstood snowflake who will deliver if nutured enough.

Balotelli's not going to change, keeping him would be a waste of £100k (& bonuses if we actually let him onto the pitch) a week.

8.) 11 May 2015 00:56:22
Something red made the best comment. I would sack whoever was responsible for his arrival first off before I do anything else. Had we had Balo vs Chelsea he would not have run and chased they way those players ran their socks off today. He and the guy who oversaw his arrival, should be sold and sacked respectively.

9.) 11 May 2015 02:27:31
Doesn't score enough goals, get rid.

We have too many passengers and Balo is one of them.
Move him on with Borini, Lambert, Allen and Enrique.

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