{"id":464628,"date":"2011-07-20T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/20\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:32:00","slug":"manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez &#8211; Mario Balotelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Edward Tibbles<\/h3>\n<h4>20 Jul 2011 09:32:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"82.3190767142\">\n<div readability=\"14.099009901\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/127400\/127478_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/16127\/mario-balotelli\">Mario Balotelli<\/a> insists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a> have a good enough squad to succeed this season, even if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/argentina\/9874\/carlos-tevez\">Carlos Tevez<\/a> does leave the club this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Argentine striker had looked set to move back to South America with Corinthians, but his former club have pulled out because there is not enough time to complete the deal before the close of the Brazilian transfer window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Balotelli told reporters<em>:<\/em> &#8220;It does not matter if Carlos is here or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If Carlos is here it&#8217;s good, while if he goes away I&#8217;m sure someone else will arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But how I play is all down to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter who else is at Manchester City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Carlos is a great player, so I hope he&#8217;s going to stay. But I&#8217;ve seen great players leave clubs before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It happened at Inter. This is football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We have a good team here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If a player wants to leave it&#8217;s his decision but we&#8217;ll still be a good team.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Italian striker admits that he could have done better during his first season in England, and believes he will prove his worth this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I thought my first season was so-so,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I know I can score a lot more. I will show City fans this season what I can do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/20\/2582750\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\" title=\"Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez - Mario Balotelli\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez &#8211; Mario Balotelli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Edward Tibbles 20 Jul 2011 09:32:00 Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Mario Balotelli insists Manchester City have a good enough squad to succeed this season, even if Carlos Tevez does leave the club this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez - Mario Balotelli - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez - Mario Balotelli - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Edward Tibbles 20 Jul 2011 09:32:00 Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Mario Balotelli insists Manchester City have a good enough squad to succeed this season, even if Carlos Tevez does leave the club this summer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/127400\/127478_news.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/manchester-city-do-not-need-carlos-tevez-mario-balotelli\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Manchester City do not need Carlos Tevez &#8211; 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