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Mario Balotelli is a talented player. Maybe the most talented one Italian football has produced since Totti, or Cassano. The truth is that it seems there is no more room for him in Serie A. The young Inter striker is now facing a crucial point of his career. At the age of 19, he already won 3 Italian titles, 1 Italian Supercup, 1 Italian Cup, and, last but not least, 1 Champions League. Impressive, even more if you consider he had an important role in most of the victories (the most important one in sealing his first Scudetto during Mancini’s last campaing at Inter).

Last season he had some tough problems tough with the team by showing a lack of respect for his teammates. When AC Milan came closer to Inter in the table in April, he sang Milan’s song in the dressing room. With the manager, he almost began physcially fighting on the training pitch with José Mourinho. And with the fans, he put on an AC Milan shirt in a TV interview and then threw Inter’s shirt on the ground at the final whistle in the San Siro match against Barcelona. All of this led up to the point in which we now are looking at.

Inter is willing to respect UEFA’s upcoming prescriptions on financial fair play, and the way they have to achieve this is by selling players. Maicon and Balotelli are the most desired ones, and in the last weeks Inter is thinking about selling the arguing Balotelli and keeping the willing-to-stay Maicon. Offers are coming right now from City (25m€ plus bonuses according to Italian media), United (1m€ more than every City’s offer, as it is reported Ferguson said) and Chelsea (30m€). Massimo Moratti said that Balotelli will not switch for less than 40m€ considering his age and qualities, but it seems that the first offer to reach 35m€ will be the one to take. We’ll see. I suppose everything will be arranged in one way or another before Inter leave for the American part of their summer training, expected to start on July 31st. If you think about it, both United and City are now in the USA, and Inter will even play against City overseas…