Last Updated: 28th January 2013
AC MILAN look to have finally prised Mario Balotelli away from Manchester City.
The Premier League champs are expected to announce they have sold the hothead striker for around £17million today.
It is understood Milan could include former Spurs midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng on top of that fee.
Italian ace Balotelli threw a leaving party at his house for close pals last night.
He told them he was off to the San Siro and gave away mementos from his controversial stay at the Etihad.
City had been holding out for a much bigger return on the player they paid Inter £22m for in August 2010.
But the relationship between Balotelli and City boss Roberto Mancini seems unsustainable.
Milan have been banking on City being prepared to cut their losses on the 22-year-old.
And agent Mino Raiola has done everything he can to make the move happen.
He said: “The truth about Mario? Ask the others because I can’t say. Until January 31 everything is possible.
“A loan deal has been excluded by their directors.”
Last night Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said: “At today’s price it’s 99.5 per cent certain that he is not coming. The stock market is closed until tomorrow.”
But just 24 hours earlier Galliani had said the deal was “99.9 per cent” dead.
And in Italy that softened stance was seen as a clear indication that Balotelli would soon join the Rossoneri.
Milan coach Massi Allegri said: “Balotelli is a Manchester City player for now. If he comes, I’ll think about how to manage him.”
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the arrogance of this new breed of city fans is staggering
no wonder city are disliked all over europe
btw i live in gorse hill
if u really lived in salford and not surrey u would know where that is
too funny
I wish it was 17 Million plus Boateng but if it were true it would be done now wouldn't it.
Juventus has now joined the scramble to sign Balotelli but all is speculation as no one has put in a firm offer to Manchester City.
I just wish they would get on with it and do the business.
LawBestCharlton how many accounts do you need????? kentreds certainly gets about, except to old trafford!!!!
Ha ha ha... kentreds, is there no end to your lunacy? Please stop, I'm so embarrassed for you. You're even talking to yourself...Sad, but funny.
LawBestCharlton youve never been to old trafford, pot kettle black springs to mind!!!!
rodneytrotter you are kentreds you fool, you can change your account but you cant change the same boring idiotic comments from a gloryhunter. youve been found out yet again!!!!
REDJOHN i dont take part in polls, i dont need to i know who i support by paying hard earned following my team around the country, i or city for that matter dont need a poll to glorify it,m you know like the "we have 700 million fans worldwide" poll with the "errr . . . . i dont follow football but i. . . errr. . . . support man united mob, its funny how that poll come out just after city won the league when a lot of united fans were ringing in MUTV screaming for fergie to retire!!!! pathetic fans arent they.
LOL
some idiot on here has been accuing me of being kenreds too
city fans huh
what a bunch of lame brains they are
joke club
Dear Lord please don't say it's true...the idiot known as kentreds is back, and she's lashing out, anybody else would be able to use a bit of humour to defuse the situation, but let's face it, that would take an ounce of grey matter.
damo.blue Have ever been to see your merc team play live? of course not......you probably could n't even find the empty (translated united) Stadium in a stolen car....!!
Hahaha cityfc....stop spurting the bile......I know you are lonely and skint but its not my fault is it?!!! pmsl
Hehehe, this is just too easy...And still this idiot continues to cling to the hope that someone, somewhere is being taken in by his utter drivel, just shows what everybody already knows, he's a loser.
Nighty-night moron...And don't forget, hands outside the duvet.
LawBestCharlton I think you need to leave before your embarrassing yourself, maybe down south with the rest of the rags.
RobertoFerraro I know for a fact that, every City player love Mario in the dressing room. Because he is very funny and makes them laugh. Maybe thats why AC Milan want him, so they can put him on a comedy channel on Italian tv to make extra profit on hmThat is priceless!!!!! maybe thats why he scores more off the pitch than on it coz he is hilarious!!!!! or maybe they just think hes still in puberty which isnt far from the truth really is it???
Please pass my congratulations on to kentred.....he must have really upset you!!! hehehe
Hahahaha cityfc .....what bile and unhappiness within you....get in!! I won again pmsl !!!!
I think you've just been hooked, chewed...and spat out .......sweet dreams oh angry one ;-)) lol lol lol
Ha ha, Kents answer to Prof Stephan Hawking abandons his account because he's sick of being chewed up and spat out. So he decides to pop up using several other identities, trouble is, he doesn't have the brains to disguise his infantile writing style, and the result is...everyone knows who it is, and guess what? he's still being chewed up and spat out...PMSL.
£17m AND Boateng? Are Milan mad? Boateng is a cracking player. City are getting a good deal at £17m never mind with Boateng on top, he's easily a £10m - £15m player alone.
Salfordcityblue Polls don't mean jack?? Not if they don't come out in your favour...By the look of your post I'd say you've taken part in a few.."what team do you support"?? "err i dont follow football but, errr,".......
LawBestCharlton polls dont mean jack and you know it. the same old "what team do you support"?? "err i dont follow football but, errr, man united" crowd make up numbers and my knowledge being from manchester is salford is definitely red with no doubt but manchester is blue!!! to help your poll id say london is more red than blue, what do you reckon???? and do you think if you went down to the chamionship now you would fill OT??? you only have to walk through salford when united get beat and you all hide, you dont see a united shirt for a week!!!!!
LawBestCharlton...What polls? the Kent gazzette polls.Do you want my postcode idiot.If MANURES ground is full of Manchester then why do 90% of you idiots take the mickey out of the Mancunian accent you pathetic glory hunting wimps from the sarf.When they move the ground to Ireland you can start sprouting otherwise be quite untill you,ve once visited Manchester let alone your ground. Do you want a map and train timetable glory child?
Worlds biggest Manchester United Fan and football expert. From Kent. Spends all day calling Mancunian fans of Manchester City "Plastics".
There's the seeds of a great comedy character there, if nothing else.
@kentreds .. I'd almost forgotten how you attempt to twist peoples words when you are losing (bit desperate mate) You do realise people can read don't you? .. And the old "caps lock" chestnut, dear me, scraping the barrel aren't we sunshine?
RobertoFerraro hahahahaha Oh my sides are aching, stop making me laugh.... The Glazers are still here because they are milking cash from UNITED and stay away from OT. The liverpoo situation was completely different, they couldn't make enough money to stay. UNITED don't live on "borrowed money", we make more profit than any club in the EPL. And if you think your sugar daddy wont get bored with you I suggest you take a look at his previous...then you will change your tune.. But if I have to tell you.........................
This is rather bad news for United and co. Not only he's clearly not progressed since he was 18 and his statistics hardly do him a favor, this "person" is an utter disgrace. Oh, and about the money/ club owners issue. Real clubs gone big, like United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, have the right to spend because they got big due to good management,fan base, etc, while clubs like City, who've been unknown since some filthy rich men from afar decided that they like football, compete with huge losses, compromising all forms of decency...that's the difference..
RedJohn, you United fans are not credible pundits to talk about ownership of the club issues. A few years ago the most of u United fans marched on the streets made so many demonstrations to get rid of Glazer family and nobody took any notice. Because they r still there. Liverpool fans made a similar complaints and protests against their previous owners Gilette & Hicks and they achieved their objective with their fans power and got rid of them. So what does that tell u? Nobody take u seriously and never will. Sheikh Mansour will never get bored with City and will always fund our great club. Because he doesn't live on borrowed money as your owners do.
CityofAngels How embarrassing for you....glad you are big enough to admit you're wrong tho.....lol
damo.blue HAHA WHAT A PILLOCK.....YOU ARE N'T FROM MANCHESTER OTHERWISE YOU WOULD KNOW IT BEEN PREDOMINANTLY RED SINCE YEAR DOT........APART FROM THAT POLL AFTER POLL CONFIRM REDS OUT NUMBER $ITTY BITTERS 3 TO 1 IF NOT MORE.......UTD DID NOT WIN THE LEAGUE FOR 26 YEARS YET IN EVERY SINGLE SEASON OUR GATES WERE 25-50% BIGGER THAN YOUR CRAPPY LITTLE CLUB......PROOF IS THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE.......COME ON THEN NUMPTY PROVE ME WRONG????
Xeroz2 It would have been interesting to see how Fergie would have dealt with mario, I suspect if he'd shown him the hair dryer, Balo would have dried his hair with it. If he does leave he will be missed for one reason or another.
LawBestCharlton (Kentreds) Get a grip son, nobody is waiting for a "valid answer" nobody is interested.
Whats all this about glory hunting UNITED fans??? I've never known so many "Loyal City fans" existed until the Sugar Daddy Sheikh bought their ass.... Now their popping up in their droves,(apart from at the Etihad??)
How many of them will be on posts like this when Sugar Daddy gets bored and City are back down the leagues??
Answers on a postcard please........
AndyThompson,Guardiola wants Mario Gotze for Bayern Munich next season. But if Sheikh Mansour gives £50m to Mancini then we have a big chance to get Falcao to replace Mario before Thursday's transfer deadline.
LawBestCharlton....Your definatley from the sarf if you think Manchester is dominated by red it,s you lot are completly laughable pratts.
always united...Have you bought a new armchair today or did you find out were ot was and go to your first game since you started glory hunting you really do spout a load of twaddle.
Roberto better get the checkbook out and get Mario Gotze ottherwise your gonna be alittle short in attack
CityofAngels Please tell me how I am a fraud - better make it good you dope as everyone is waiting for a valid answer???? afterall I did not say I was a northerner and I did not say I was n't?????
WAITING.............
ye old gloryhunting debate, lol
but still i would of liked to see what saf would of done with mad mario.. well overdue the hairdryer lol
joelw The irony is, I'm not really bothered where anyone's from, if they want to overlook their local clubs in favour of a club with more chance of silverware, then that's up to them, but I do find it amusing when they mock the accent, do they realise that they are actually taking the rise out of genuine local Utd fans...astonishing really.
@cityofAngels. I think you've come to the wrong place to talk about football. Most on here are just gloryhunting Man Utd supporting southerners who watch all of their football on TV.
It's funny isn't it. They choose a to support team because of it's record of success and then feel like they've achieved something when that team wins again.
If you want to support a team with no geographical relevance to you, why not Middlebrough or Port Vale? I'll tell you why, because you're not football fans, you just like shouting about success.
Always United Just as I suspected, a civilised conversation is well out your comfort zone, keep the insults coming fella, it's obviously all you've got.
bestlawcharlton As you've took it upon yourself to enter the fray let me explain just how easy it is to expose frauds like you...People from the North of England don't use terms like "Naff off" I'm afraid you wouldn't have the faintest idea what colour Manchester is.
Have you noticed that every story on every big club is absolutely dominated by Reds???
MANCHESTER & ENGLAND IS MOST DEFINITELY RED
One thing is for sure, if you look at the profile pages for all these diehard Man Utd fans, the 'Location' field is always blank. Very telling that is!
There is nothing more abhorant on this earth than southern Utd fans. An embarassment.
I know for a fact that, every City player love Mario in the dressing room. Because he is very funny and makes them laugh. Maybe thats why AC Milan want him, so they can put him on a comedy channel on Italian tv to make extra profit on hm.
CityofAngels you can dish it out mate but you can't take it can you....now naff off back to school
MANCHESTER IS RED MATE
CityofAngels No different than idiots like you stating that United fans have never been to a game and aren't from Manchester. how could YOU possible know anything about all of the 75,000 + who show up and fill OT?
You don't have a "good old parle" with anyone. You've posted drivel just like the rest.
Now wipe your chin and take a nap. You're boring us all.
Always United How come idiots like you always make silly claims such as "You've just started following Citeh since the Sheikh showed up?" How could you possibly know anything about my situation? And what's with you mocking the Mancunian accent? Kind of letting the cat out the bag there mate.
Yes I do go on Utd threads, like I said I like a good old parle with intelligent opposing fans, its just a shame you don't qualify in that bracket. Maybe you could prove me wrong eh? How about deleting all your other Id's and try talking about football without the childish insults...Can you do that?
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