Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli has been pictured smoking a cigarette while on holiday in Italy just a fortnight ahead of the new Premier League campaign.
The Italian was dining at the Strainer Restaurant on the Italian Riviera after enjoying a boating trip around the region on the coast of Portofino after being informed by manager Jurgen Klopp he had no role to play ahead of the upcoming season.
Despite that, however, the images, published by the Daily Mail on Tuesday morning, will do the former Manchester City forward’s chances of finding a new club no good at all with just under a month to complete a deal away before the transfer window closes.
Balotelli has been spotted smoking cigarettes before, lighting up during a trip to Miami two years ago, before re-joining former club AC Milan on loan last summer.
The report adds that Milan insisted on a “good behaviour” clause being inserted into the 25-year-old’s loan agreement. Balotelli was banned from extravagant haircuts and smoking while all of his posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were monitored.
Elmar Neveling, Klopp’s biographer, tells the tale of how Klopp apparently used Balotelli’s behaviour as an example to his Borussia Dortmund players in the past.
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