For now, no meeting scheduled with the club. The starting place is not guaranteed, but the attacker is returning to form
Mario Balotelli’s latest cryptic message via social media was posted an hour ago by the striker: “To all those who attacked me when I was weak, try it now”, with a text in English accompanied by a Star Wars-type challenge. Who is it directed at? It’s difficult to say, although in any case many signs to date suggest that the attacker’s future could still be at Genoa until next June, therefore the natural expiry of his contract. The rossoblù management remains on the sidelines, but there is currently no appointment on the agenda with the player, nor was there a real “dead line” (theoretically yesterday, December 31st) that would allow one of the two parties – the club or the attacker – to unilaterally decide on the early termination of the relationship. There will be a meeting, of course, but the very fact that Balotelli, after a week in the pits due to the flu (the one that preceded the victorious away game at Empoli) returned to training on a day off for all his teammates, even posting the image of a red and blue shirt suggests that we are unlikely to see any twists and turns during the race. Then, it is clear, when he is involved, alleged truths flourish and multiply. Vieira’s own declarations after the Empoli match (“here the group counts”) were intended to be a praise of the players used from the bench against the Tuscans and up to that point with less playing time than the starters, not an indirect message to Balotelli.
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Of course, the only condition that the attacker will have to respect – he, like everyone else – by choosing to end the championship in Genoa, will be that of not having guaranteed ownership only in the name of his illustrious past. To date, the only untouchable is – legitimately – Pinamonti, but considering that the emergency in attack never really ended in Pegli – Ekuban is back in the pits, Messias remains convalescent – one might think that the opportunities to be used for Mario will only grow in the future. It’s true that up to now he’s had few opportunities to show off – the match with the longest playing time was the one against Como: 26 minutes – but his condition is again almost at the top, to the full advantage of what I can gather good with the Griffin shirt. As long as you accept, in fact, that you have equal rights and duties with your classmates. And now?