A year after leaving Turkish club Adana Demirspor due to a violent altercation with his manager on the field, Mario Balotelli has returned.
Mario Balotelli has completed his ninth transfer in the eight years after leaving Liverpool, and it marks a stunning comeback to one of his old teams.
The Italian striker joined the Reds in the summer of 2014 as a last-ditch attempt to replace Luis Suarez. He did so in a £16 million deal with AC Milan, despite then-manager Brendan Rodgers’ insistence that he did not want the forward just a few weeks before.
He would ultimately turn out to be a high-profile failure at Anfield, ranking among the team’s worst-ever Premier League acquisitions. He struggled back on after scoring just four goals from 28 appearances, and only once in the English Premier League during a miserable year on Merseyside.
He struggled during his second loan stint at AC Milan after a dismal season on Merseyside, and Liverpool eventually allowed him to sign with Nice in the summer of 2016 without asking for a transfer fee in order to clear their books.
The controversial striker has since undergone season-long periods at Brescia, Monza, and Adana Demirspor after enjoying three good years in France with both Nice and Marseille, even though his last half-campaign at the former turned unsavory.
