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Is it so wrong to be excited about a player signing for us though???
I can understand to an extent, but it's not everyday we sign a player that excites us - infact the good majority of players we sign are sensible, potentials, bargains, young or fixer-uppers.. you guys can take the cautious route if you like, but I'm going to wallow in it because signings like Ballotelli are few and far between.
He is a rogue footballer, he is a liability & he is a fixer-upper - but he is a world class talent, you can't deny that. I haven't been so excited about a new signing for as long as I can remember - I can't wait to see him in a Red shirt. Believe me, I'm as excited as you are about us signing him and he is an absolute bargain, but let's see how he settles before we start proclaiming him as the new messiah. He comes with baggage (hate that saying) but hopefully he will find a happy home with us because if he does we are going to pose some threat going forward. I’m with you two guys on this signing, assuming we finalise it, and I hope we do. There’s no doubt theres a large element of risk with Ballotelli, and there’s plenty of potential for it to go badly wrong, as others here are pointing out. However if Rodgers can sort the guy's head out, he can be an absolute winner for us at 16m. Given our striker situation this window, I'd much rather take the risk with Ballotelli than take the risk we’d face with a shortage of strikers, (e.g. Sturridge injured??) and all those games coming up.
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milan coach Inzaghi: "With Balotelli we lost a good player, but the team gains more in terms of desire and effort."
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Well to be fair, he's got to be positive and act like he's doing the right thing. I hope you're wrong about him EMP, but I have a lingering fear that you may be right.
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it's not an issue off right or wrong..I don't know how it will turn out...just a reaction to the hype..might be good for balotelli if he wasn't given such unquestionable adoration at first.
I am just looking at his career to date and saying this fella has n't ever put in the effort. Hope he does here and maybe he will when he sees everyone else bombing about - one thing for sure if he starts walking about he will be in the reserves in no time.
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Is it so wrong to be excited about a player signing for us though???
I can understand to an extent, but it's not everyday we sign a player that excites us - infact the good majority of players we sign are sensible, potentials, bargains, young or fixer-uppers.. you guys can take the cautious route if you like, but I'm going to wallow in it because signings like Ballotelli are few and far between.
He is a rogue footballer, he is a liability & he is a fixer-upper - but he is a world class talent, you can't deny that. I haven't been so excited about a new signing for as long as I can remember - I can't wait to see him in a Red shirt. Believe me, I'm as excited as you are about us signing him and he is an absolute bargain, but let's see how he settles before we start proclaiming him as the new messiah. He comes with baggage (hate that saying) but hopefully he will find a happy home with us because if he does we are going to pose some threat going forward. I’m with you two guys on this signing, assuming we finalise it, and I hope we do. There’s no doubt theres a large element of risk with Ballotelli, and there’s plenty of potential for it to go badly wrong, as others here are pointing out. However if Rodgers can sort the guy's head out, he can be an absolute winner for us at 16m. Given our striker situation this window, I'd much rather take the risk with Ballotelli than take the risk we’d face with a shortage of strikers, (e.g. Sturridge injured??) and all those games coming up. Totally agree, not signing a proven goal scorer is unacceptable.
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According to his agent we have been negotiating this deal for 3 months. That isn't panic buying and I take that assertion back. He also said they scoped out Liverpool as a team where he won't be expected to lead but just play his game as a forward without undue pressure. Further the guy admits this is probably last chance saloon stuff.
Yes he's a horrid agent but there seems enough realism in there for me to be somewhat more optimistic than I would have otherwise been.
If he fulfils his potential and the majority of the new guys live up to theirs we won't be missing Suarez much at all.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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I read those comments too Top. If thats true then it seems to me that Mario has to be more of a team player and is fully aware of the chance on offer.
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It was just like Sturridge coming out saying "we are better without Suarez". Not like these teams are going to say "we lost a great player and are now screwed"
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You appear to have miss understood the context. By having a higher quality player in almost every position the sum of our collective parts is far higher than with Suarez. I think that's basically what Sturridge was saying.
If Ballo gets us 18-20 and we have a high percentage of the new guys who make it we are a better team. That's not to say we wouldn't love Suarez out there,of course we would (me as much as anyone) but it wouldn't be much good if our squad consisted of 13 guys and we were playing 60 games!
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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it's not an issue off right or wrong..I don't know how it will turn out...just a reaction to the hype..might be good for balotelli if he wasn't given such unquestionable adoration at first.
I am just looking at his career to date and saying this fella has n't ever put in the effort. Hope he does here and maybe he will when he sees everyone else bombing about - one thing for sure if he starts walking about he will be in the reserves in no time. agree to the last t didnt think i would say that coz usually your crazy as A BAT
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