Blooper Mario to be fined again
Posted Thursday, March 31, 2011 by The Sun
MARIO BALOTELLI is set to be fined another week's wages of £100,000 and given an official warning about his behaviour.
The Manchester City striker, 20, will be docked the money after throwing darts at youth team players from a window at the club's training ground.
He was recently fined two weeks' wages for being sent off against Dynamo Kiev.
Now he will also be summoned to showdown talks with Roberto Mancini and a club executive to address his increasingly alarming conduct. City officials had previously been happy to accept Balotelli was merely young, immature and struggling to settle after a summer move from Italy.
But his latest misdemeanour has particularly angered the club hierarchy, who are increasingly beginning to feel the £24million buy from Inter Milan is proving an expensive mistake.
Balotelli's actions are proving expensive to him, too, with his fines this month hitting £300,000. While Balotelli has 10 goals to his name, otherwise he has been nothing but trouble for City.
He was injured on his debut and out for three months, then red-carded two starts into his return.
He has had a training ground bust-up with Jerome Boateng and threw strops after being subbed against West Ham and Notts County.
During another spell out injured and back in Italy, he drove through the open gates of a women's prison just to have a look around.
On the pitch he has received nine yellow cards and two red.
It seems nobody was injured in the most recent incident. But throwing darts is clearly seen as dangerous enough to merit disciplinary action.
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