Another day another reel of ridiculous tales in the world of Mario Balotelli, a child trapped inside a man's body.
The Liverpool striker will not be missed and it seems that now that he's out the door the full scale of his antics are beginning to surface. My favourite story so far has to be this one from the Liverpool Echo about Balotelli's relationship with Joe Allen:
They [the squad] couldn’t quite believe his front when they found him smoking inside the grounds of Melwood. During a team bonding exercise he claimed not to know who Joe Allen was - despite having shared a dressing room with the Wales international for months.
The Echo report another anecdote about the time Balotelli first set his eyes on the new iPhone 6, just before a training session. Having spotted it in a teammate's hand he was 'visibly irked' to not have one of his own.
Within a matter of moments he was limping out of training with a hamstring 'injury'. He was sent back in to the dressing rooms to get the injury checked out but when the squad returned an hour and a half later they found the bould Mario grinning from ear to ear:
There was a beaming Balotelli sat in the corner, with a new iPhone 6 in his hand and a few spares boxed up next to him. One of his minions had been hastily dispatched to do some shopping. The pain in his hamstring had miraculously eased.
He'd put years on you.
