Mario Balotelli’s Liverpool career ended with a move to Nice on transfer deadline day.
Mario Balotelli looks dejected
In his column for the Sunday Mirror, Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler has launched a scathing attack on former Reds striker Mario Balotelli, calling his career one of ‘wasted potential’, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
The enigmatic Italian finally left Liverpool for Ligue 1 side Nice on transfer deadline day on a free transfer, after his two-year spell at Anfield yielded just one Premier League goal.
Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler
Fowler, who scored 129 league goals for his boyhood club over two separate spells, laid into Balotelli, reeling off numerous aspects of the game where he struggles, as quoted by the Daily Mail:
“People still say he’s got talent, but I’ve yet to see any. No scoring instinct, no positional sense, and no progress.”
Balotelli’s career at Liverpool was as good as doomed with the appointment of Jurgen Klopp in October 2015.
Balotelli during his spell at AC Milan
With the German being renowned for his high intensity pressing game, the former Manchester City and Inter Milan star was never going to fit in to Klopp’s system, what with his perceived lazy attitude towards the game.
Fowler went on to explain how the 25-year-old Italian always seems to reflect blame on to other people for his indiscretions:
“It’s always someone else’s fault with Mario.”
If Balotelli does not begin to put 100 per cent focus into his football, he will never stand a chance of realising his undeniable potential.
Mario Balotelli
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