Here’s one of those rumours that proves you can have baseless transfer speculation outside of the transfer window.
The Turkish website Star claims that Fulham want to sign eccentric Italian forward Mario Balotelli from Adana Demirspor to spearhead their Premier League campaign next season. The former Manchester City striker, recently recalled to the Italian national set up by Roberto Mancini has scored 11 goals in 24 appearances since moving to Turkey from Monza on a free transfer last summer.
The accuracy of the report is undermined in the very next paragraph when Star suggests that Balotelli will become Marco Silva’s main striker next season as Aleksandar Mitrovic, who has scored 34 goals in 31 Championship appearances this season, will not be at the club next season. Fulham are set to sell the Serbian to Juventus, apparently. We’d file this in what we used to call our ‘silly season’ section but we can’t stop laughing.
The Turkish newspapers have been saying that Mitro is leaving to play there since last summer. Guess they have to keep it going somehow …
Can you imagine Mitro and Ballotelli being on the pitch together winding each other up over every refereeing decision ?
Why on earth would we trade in the best striker in the football league for a guy like Mario. Stupidist piece of news I’ve read in quite a while.
Totally agree why would Mitro want to leave we love him to bits and he loves us this is The Media doing this they don’t like Fulham being Successful so they are doing their utmost to throw a spanner in the works Lionel Messi yes but Mario Balotelli No