Liverpool flop set for eighth different club in eight years after being banned from training
Mario Balotelli could become the latest former Liverpool star to move to Saudi Arabia after being banished from training by current club Sion.
The controversial Italian joined the Swiss side in a £2m deal last summer, finding himself forced out by Turkish side Adana Demirspor following an explosive on-pitch row with manager Vincenzo Montella.
Sion had billed the much-travelled striker as their biggest ever signing last year. But they have seemingly lost patience with the 33-year-old after just one season as they look to force him out the exit door.
Balotelli scored just six times for Sion as they were relegated from the Swiss Super League. And despite having a year left on his current deal, the club’s sporting director Barth Constantin, who has previously fallen out with the Italian, has vowed to find a 'solution to the problem' after the striker was banished from first team training.
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"There has been interest in Mario Balotelli from a Saudi club, but nothing concrete," Constantin told reporters. "The Saudi transfer window will close later than the one in Europe, so we will see what happens. But for the time being Mario is training at our Riddes base, separately from the first-team squad."
The sporting director’s declaration follows on the back of FC Sion President Christian Constantin laying into Balotelli in a heated interview with Swiss magazine L'Illustre.
"Mario has not repaid the confidence we placed in him,” he said. “Neither has he rewarded us for the big financial efforts we made for him.
"This lad thinks that the rules that govern a team are made for other
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