Mario Balotelli moved to Liverpool towards the end of this summer transfer window, and he has scored just first one goal as a member of The Reds. Only the one scoring strike in 11 games and close to 900 minutes of club and country competition.
And then this happened today:
The Reds drew 0-0 with Hull City today, so that would have been huge. Safe to say that Liverpool has wasted their money thus far. They haven’t really seen any return on their investment.
The missed open wide opportunity is a follows up on last Sunday when Mario Balotelli did this:
Wide open goal, the net right there at his mercy, and he sends it into Row Z. And it led to a lot of Liverpool fans ripping him a new one on Twitter. Here are some of the best.
The purple bin remark was my favorite.
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