people have said (on here as well as in media) that rodgers took him to "fix him"... as his ego told him that only a man of his genius could fix such a lost cause. thats how it was said and that's in the end when the dust settles on rodgers short anfield career
that he lost his job "buying ****e and his ego lead him to it... just look at balotelli FFS"
I think if we didn't expect a big bid on a 31 goal man going to world cup in the prime of his career from spain then we are fools.
i also think with 75mil pocketed there were any number of better options than markovic and balotelli
we signed bad on telly on the 25th august. markovic was signed middle of july AFTEr saurez sale was agreed. in short that 36mil that should have gone on a proper striker.
If we ran short of options the truth behind why we ran short of options has to come out.
as of now i see zero reason why we needed mr markovic at all at 20mil... given ibe, sterling, coutinho and lallana all lining up. that was a piss poor buy and then to top it all off to put 16mil down late in the window on mario?
nahhhh...
rightly or wrongly rodgers carrer at anfield will be defiend by mario balotelli when lads look back at it. there a litany of piss poor buys, borini, aspas et al.. but badontelly tops the pile.
As i said If i were manager offered that choice.
what rodgers said last DECEMBER;
"And asked if he had any regrets over Balotelli’s move, Rodgers said: “No. I think as a club we felt that was the solution at the time.
“In the summer, we had Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini was looking as though 100% he was gone.
“Obviously Daniel (Sturridge) has shown in his career so far that he gets injuries.
“So it would be unfair to leave Rickie Lambert, a 32-year-old, as the only striker we had.
“I felt this (Balotelli) was a risk we needed to take and as a group we couldn’t afford not to at the time.
“It was obviously late on and we need to have someone in.
“It’s something that we can’t regret.
“I made it clear at the beginning it was a calculated one and that is why he probably cost the money that he did.”
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It's clear the club made very bad choices during the window.... very bad indeed... but to end up with balotelli or... whomever the other choice was i forget is unforgivable and thats why at the time i said sack the lot of them.
