Allow me to put forward a different point of view.
A world class striker like Ballotelli becomes available at a cut price 16mil when he is easily worth double that. He is linked to Arsenal but they get Sanchez. We are short of strikers, he wants the move, he knows he will get game time.
Would it not be foolish to let such an opportunity slip?
Perhaps it is not desperation, perhaps it is just good business sense. Especially if the rumours that we are still trying to thrash out a loan for Falcao are true. Etoo would have spelled "desperation" to me, Ballotelli does not.
Just my opinion.
Well in my opinion you've made some glaring errors there. Baloteli isn't even close to being world class. He's a good European striker and as such is worth more than 16m you're right about that. But even as a subjective opinion, I cannot see how anyone could call him world class, look at his stats, his games for the last 3 years, all of it is good, none of it is world class. Crazy.
Arsenal have been linked with everyone, as have Chelsea City Liverpool and utd, happens every year, means nothing.
With regards to desperation, the fact we tried to get every maybe big striker available (Rodgers said so himself so not conjecture like your arsenal remark) and failed, then went and bought someone who weeks ago our manager said we would categorically not sign, and didn't sign all summer when we wanted to get business done early, proves baloteli is at least in small part, a desperation move.
I'm not saying baloteli is bad, or not good value for 16 m, I think it's better than bony for 20 m, but it's almost definitely a desperation move. We will see if it pays off.
