Does Balotelli ever become good ?

[thenabster]

I'm wondering if Balotelli ever became good enough in anyone's save on fm. Like we know he's a wonderkid in real life but in my save he never became even decent. Stayed a whole season without scoring a goal and caused trouble in the locker room. Since I wanted to give him time to explode, I loaned him to PSG two years in a row and he still never made it. Was a huge flop at PSG. Finally I sold him to Bayern Munich and he still isn't exploding.

So I was wondering did anyone succeed in making Balotelli a superstar ?

 

[Hernanes]

Where do you use him? Once I nearly signed him with Real Sociedad, but couldn't afford his wages, so Barça bought him. He was only decent.

 

[Coupdhaha]

Give him intense tutoring. You really need to pump up his mental stats. If you've started your save with Man City, Tevez is an ideal tutor- he has great mental stats.

After the first season, buy Raul (the R. Madrid legend) because he'll be cheap and has fantastic mental stats, and get Raul to tutor Balotelli. Hopefully by then Batotelli will have a det of 18 or so. This will help him reach his PA. Also this will improve his disgusting teamwork and workrate stats, and make him less of a lazy and selfish ****.

 

[julianchelmsford]

In every FM save I have had since he has been with City he has declined to the level of a League 1 player by the time he's 28.

 

[craig curtis]

never seen him good on any fm!

 

[Aannddyy]

I've just signed him with Wolves on a free [5th season] to replace Tevez who was unfortunately sold to Chelsea. He looks pretty good, doesn't really have the mental stats for anything more than a poacher though.

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I think if he had actually played more in the previous 4 seasons he would be a lot better than he is, but still a solid PL striker.