A new favorite headline: "Balotelli: a no risk signing for Spurs?" Sure, I guess, if by no risk you mean flushing lots of money down the toilet and destroying your team's morale, with a strong possibility of a bit of property damage as an add-on. What I see in Balotelli is a plane spiralling out of control. Joking aside, I think he needs support. I have sympathy for him given that growing up as one of Italy's first non-white sports stars might drive the sanest person bonkers. I can't speak to Adebayor's dressing room effect, and understand most think it's horrible. But his pattern has been oscillation, and he's due to have a big year this year if the pattern continues. I wouldn't take Balotelli for Ade in a million years. But Ade might very well make Aston Villa or Liverpool very glad they signed him--the first year. The second year--again, if the pattern continues--should be a very different story.