Considering Balotellis general behaviour and antics on and off the pitch, that's a valid statement too.

Err Rooney giggs rio, all real moral champions those guys of the pitch

Crikey Boris, you don't mess around eh?

Do any of the City fans think that the money that City pay for most of their players is giving those players more power than the club?

They can hold the club to ransom, like Rooney did for United, obviously you don't want that to happen.

Don't you think that this could be damaging to football in the long term?

I feel these are valid questions, so please try to answer politely. I am genuinely after your opinions on this

Err Rooney giggs rio, all real moral champions those guys of the pitch
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the question was about Super Mario not these guys. Can you defend him? Do you want to?

rr Rooney giggs rio, all real moral champions those guys of the pitch

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Comments like this don't half wind me up.

It is pointless comparing other players, because I couldn't care less about Giggs, Rio etc. I have my own opinions on them and I didn't ask about then, I asked about Balotelli, so answer the question dammit.

Talking about ballotelis bad behaviour whilst ignoring your own players indiscretions is a tad hypocritical don't you think!

Balloteli is a grade a plank you will not find many city fans disagreeing with that, my point is what about the players I mentioned from your club?

Reebok I don't think players can hold the club to ransom at all. Anyone who kicks up a fuss gets shipped out on loan immediately to get them out of the dressing room, and then sold. It started with Robinho and we've seen it with Ade etc.

The club have been pretty strict in that respect, I mean look at the Tevez saga last winter, we were the ones that didn't bend over and waft a new contract under his nose, club policy is not to discuss new contracts until summer, and we stuck to it.

Players don't hold a place down in the team because of their pricetag, if you aren't playing well, you don't play, Lescott, Kolarov, Boateng, Dzeko, Balotelli have all spent time sat on the sidelines due to poor performances. So to say a player could hold the club to ransom, well, I don't believe its happened yet anyway.

An that is a question for the man u fan, not reebok robot!

I defended Joey Barton to the hilt when he was a City player because he did the business on the pitch, what he did in his spare time was his affair - The same could be applied to Giggs or Rooney.
When a player is an embarassment both on and off the pitch then there's very little to defend. Apart from a minority of mainly younger City fans, Balotelli is regarded in the football world as a complete jackass and he'll have to have an outstanding season to convince most people otherwise.

I'm not going to lie, the way he manages to completely and unpredictably out-do the previous thing he has done does impress me on some level. If he has a poor season this year though I'll want him out, I imagine most of the other pros around him find him a little tiresome at the best of times.

The biggest problem I have with Balotelli is he just doesn't seem interested. It is like playing football is a chore. He just doesn't seem to realise how privileged he is

"No last time I looked it was still MUFC not MUCP"

Yes and the last time i looked man u won the Premiership Title, the English Championship is a completely different competition or do they play in the Championship too?

"Yes I saw that team spirit ooze out vs LA with the Balotelli incident."

you must be really struggling now if thats the best you could come up with son.

not really Super Mario makes it very easy.