Brescia's Cellino: 'Balotelli too childish'

The former Cagliari and Leeds United patron has often threatened to storm out of the entire football world and is the only patron pushing hard to abandon the current Serie A season.

“This is no longer my football, it has no future,” Cellino told TeleTutto. “Being a President has become impossible. I can no longer accept being practically like the days of (Moggi-run agency) GEA. It’s like sitting at a poker table when your opponent is hiding cards up his sleeve and using fake money".

 “I wanted Balotelli, but he proved himself to be too superficial and childish in his off-the-field attitudes. Let it be clear, we are not going into Serie B because of Mario, so it would be wrong and reductive to think that. If a child is impolite, the fault is of the parents, so we must not have dealt with him very well”.