It may have only taken until November for Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers to reach their wits end with one Mario Balotelli. The Mirror reports today that Rodgers had to order the striker to bed the night before Liverpool's Champions League tie with Basel after a group of Mario's pals had traveled from Italy to visit him. The man without a Premier League goal this season eventually turned in at 2am.
Liverpool's Melwood training ground has also been visited one more than one occasion by members of Balotelli's posse according to the report and Rodgers has finally realised his mistake in signing the wayward striker from AC Milan back in August amid further reports in the piece of at least one senior England international in the Liverpool squad voicing concerns over Balotelli's behavior.
This is the man who Jose Mourinho deemed "unmanageable" remember.
There is no place for the mavericks anymore, the world belongs to your Rickie Lambert's, tucked up in bed at 9pm.
