Where will the Balotelli crazy train head next?

Manchester City’s title bid effectively blew up to cartoon smithereens at Arsenal on Sunday afternoon and with it, so did the player who yearns to be a cartoon character, Mario Balotelli as his lunatic display was on the one way path to two yellow cards and he was sent off, rather fittingly, apologetically in the North London rain.

And so with it, with a question mark hanging over Balotelli for the past few weeks following a long line of ridiculous indiscretions, came an aftermath of transfer rumours linking the eccentric Italian with a move away from Manchester City.

Not quite the loony bin, but the Daily Mail suggested Balotelli would never play for Manchester City again while the Guardian linked him with a move to Inter Milan. Soccervoice went against the grain by saying his apology to Roberto Mancini may see him stay at Eastlands.

Following his third sending off of the season, for incidents separate from a kick on Alex Song that wouldn’t look out of place in a horror movie, Roberto Mancini was quick to warn Balotelli that his career could be over very quickly if he doesn’t sort his issues, of which he has more than this particular commentator has of HEAT magazine, out.

This afternoon, Sky Sports have asked Inter Milan’s new manager Andrea Stramaccioni, who had his debut press conference so elegantly disturbed by the rampaging Balotelli in March, about the link with Balotelli and according to them he was rather bashful on the subject.

“I don’t want to talk about a player who isn’t mine” said Stramaccioni, probably most sensibly refusing to get drawn on the subject that is seemingly more explosive than a block of C4.

This link however, comes in the midst of the Independent saying Mancini is unlikely to get rid of the player while the Guardian quote Mancini as saying he has played his last game for the title chasing blues.

So we’re in a situation where nobody quite knows where Mario Balotelli is going to go, or what he is going to do, something that sums the player up quite well, don’t you think?

@AdamGray1250

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