Genoa, the Balotelli Soap Opera Continues: New Slowdown in Negotiations
Like a rubber band that tightens one day and contracts the next, the negotiations between Genoa and Mario Balotelli continue to experience alternating phases. If yesterday the currently freed player seemed one step away from landing in the Genoa rossoblù within a few hours, today the situation seems to have returned to that of two days ago with the Brescia center forward once again moving away from the Grifone.
An exhausting push and pull that has been going on for a few weeks now, and which sees two clearly opposing lines emerge within the oldest club in Italy. On the one hand, there are those who would focus on the former national team center forward with their eyes closed, such as coach Alberto Gilardino and president Alberto Zangrillo, while on the other hand, the considerations of the management are of the opposite nature, with in particular the CEO Andres Blazquez and the sporting director Marco Ottolini still hesitant about the contribution that the 34-year-old could give to a team in crisis in terms of results and play.
Balotelli, for his part, demonstrates a mad desire to return to Serie A and would even be willing to accept a decidedly modest salary for him: 400,000 euros gross, which net is about half, until the end of this season. While waiting for Genoa to decide what to do about him, Balotelli spends his days training in his private gym, posting videos of himself and his personal athletic trainers on his social pages. In short, Mario waits, Genoa are in a niche, but time is ticking, and in three days the team will be back on the field, with Gilardino having to deal with a man emergency against Lazio, which has also decimated his attack department.
