Mancini amshauri Balotelli aoe atulie

Balotelli ( wa tatu kushoto) akitoka kujirusha kabla ya Mechi ya Man City na Bolton
Roberto Mancini fined Mario Balotelli £250,000 on Sunday for breaking a pre-match curfew and told him marriage may be the way to cure his wild streak.

The City manager will persevere with the 21-year-old but warned him he is jeopardising his future and urged him to try and find himself a wife.

‘It could be that marriage would help him in that respect,’ he said.

‘That could be the answer, because I am sure he understands that he has made a mistake. Mario is like this, but there is nothing we can do if he does not eventually realise he cannot keep doing this.

‘It seems anything can happen with him at any moment. He is his own worst enemy and it is 100 per cent that he should have learned by now. When you are a professional, you should know you cannot stay out until after two o’clock in the morning, so close to a game.

‘He needs to understand this. Now he is young, but at 25 or 26 it will be different. If you do not have a good private life then, you will not be able to play at the top level.

'Sometimes I feel a bit let down. These things will happen at his age, but after 100 times, I think he should understand what is going on around him.

‘I am very kind with him but, like all the players, he knows he has to behave well to stay in the team. He was on the bench five or six times at the start of the season, because his behaviour was not good. I think he is just immature, but he will have to pay for it.’

Balotelli’s antics ensured he grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons despite scoring in City’s 2-0 home win over Bolton on Saturday and his ability ensures Mancini remains patient.

‘Do I think he’s more trouble than he’s worth? No. I have a lot of patience with him,’ said Mancini.

‘Probably he gets bored quickly. There is no malice. He just doesn’t think that there is a game in two days, that players are away on international duty and that we prepare for him to be the main striker because he would be freshest.

‘He doesn’t think along those lines, but this has to change.