Mario Balotelli used to make his personal objectives in coaching when he was in a unhealthy temper

The automotive crash, the fireworks, the celebrations, the arrows, the smoking, the fallout … There isn’t a finish to the controversies and legends which have adopted Mario Balotelli all through his profession.

The newest story in regards to the Italian’s eccentric qualities comes from former Liverpool team-mate Rickie Lambert, who claims that Balotelli would purposefully rating his personal objectives in coaching when he was in a unhealthy temper.

Lambert joined his boys’ membership in 2014, the identical summer time as Balotelli, after scoring 117 objectives in 235 appearances for Southampton. He appeared 36 instances for Brendan Rodger’s facet, however was not often a starter.

Rickie Lambert and Mario Balotelli had been teammates in Liverpool | Alex Livesey / Getty Pictures

In the meantime, Balotelli performed 28 video games for the Reds in 2014/15 and scored simply 4 objectives earlier than being despatched out on mortgage subsequent season.

The signing was seen as a mistake by Liverpool who needed the unpredictable Balotelli to interchange Luis Suarez.

As Lambert recollects, the Italian worldwide was one thing of a nightmare in coaching.

Lambert revealed (by way of Eurosport): “He [Balotelli] was a superb boy, infantile however contagious. However as quickly as he went on the coaching subject, he turned a totally different individual.

Balotelli now performs for Monza in Serie B | Jonathan Moscrop / Getty Pictures

“My head went with him in coaching and I needed to go in and inform Brendan” do not put me on his workforce once more. “I believe Stevie [Gerrard] had mentioned the identical.

“I’ve by no means seen something prefer it, to be trustworthy. At first he gave the whole lot when he performed. However throughout coaching I may say he didn’t give the whole lot. His head would simply go. If it was not going his method, he would simply spoil the session in precept.

“He would kick the ball away, make an personal purpose. I used to be speaking to Joe Hart and the boys in England they usually had been like ‘he was like that at Metropolis’. I’d ask them ‘how did he get away with it?’ They only shook their heads. “

After his spell within the Premier League with Liverpool, the now 30-year-old hung out with Milan, Good, Marseille, Brescia and now has features for Serie B facet Monza, which is owned by ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.