Since a nagging knee injury has kept him from entertaining on the pitch, Mario Balotelli has had even more time than usual to blab his wonderful brand of egotistical honesty in the general vicinity of journalists. Will Man City fans enjoy his latest batch of quotes? Well, it's a mixed bag.
First, the bad. From Sky Sports:
"Do I envy Cassano for going to AC Milan? A little," Balotelli told Italian newspaper Extra Time.
"(Milan owner) Silvio Berlusconi said that Cassano is the best Italian talent - he's wrong or doesn't know Balotelli.
"Me with Ibra and Cassano at Milan? It'll happen soon. For this year, and another, I will stay at City where I'm fine."
Man City just paid Inter £24 million to be able to sign Balotelli to a five-year contract last summer, mind you. And, you know, "this year and another" doesn't equal five years. But we all know contracts in professional football are meaningless these days, especially to someone like self-professed Milan fan Mario Balotelli. So who cares, right?
And now, the bittersweet. From the Guardian:
"He [Rooney] is a very good player but not the best [striker] in Manchester," said Balotelli.
Yeah, we know, Mario. Dimitar Berbatov is.
The 20-year-old also claimed that he is as popular with Manchester United fans as he is with City's. "Do United fans insult me? No, they stop me in the street and say: 'Mario, come to us'. But I dream of beating them because I know how much the City fans care, they are wonderful with me." [...]
"Our attack of Balotelli-Tevez-Dzeko is the best in the world," Balotelli told Extra Time. "We are the strongest. Better even than Barcelona and Real Madrid."
This "best in the world" attack hasn't even played a single minute together, so I'm not sure if I'd go comparing it to Barcelona just yet. Then again, I also don't refer to myself in the third person, so what do I know?
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