A very rare talent. This kid could be one of the best in the world in 3-4 years. He’s got some attitude problems as you said Sir Alex would put a quash on that quite quickly. Also I don’t think I’d be trying my hardest either if my own fans were throwing bananas and shouting racial slurs at me.

He’s young, he’s got the speed and size to make it in England, really good on and off the ball and plays with a passion not matched by many when he’s on.

On the flip side the biggest con about Mario is he can be horribly inconsistent, which is in my opinion why Jose left him out quite a bit. Again though he’s quite young and that type of thing can be worked on. I know a lot of United fans, especially those on Manchester Evening News don’t rate him and want nothing to do with him but I think they’d change their opinion once he started torching opposing defensemen.

I’d like to see him with United, but I can’t see us outbidding City. Not that we aren’t able too… Fergie is just a bit more intelligent with his spending than the clods at City. I’m not sure that we need another striker that badly.

Having said that, his scoring record is pretty impressive for a 20-year old. Also, apparently Macheda has been texting/calling Balotelli a lot recently, for what that is worth

he’s been mistreated by the fans at Inter and has been called slurs at some of the games, United seems to be more of a warming place to play, once in a lifetime experience as far as Fan-Player relationships go.

He’s very raw in terms of talent needs to develop some intangibles as far as technique goes, great speed, and a pretty powerful shot feels like Sir Alex can develop him into world-class talent.