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Dan BurkeĀ·19 November 2019
š„ Micah Richards has a great story about Mario Balotelli

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Dan BurkeĀ·19 November 2019
Micah Richards says Mario Balotelli got into trouble so often at Manchester City that that the club would have fined him over £100,000 by Christmas.
Balotelli might well have asked āWhy always me?ā after looking at his payslip at the end of the month, but former team-mate Richards says the Italian striker paid the price for being ādozyā.
Richards gave an insight into Balotelliās tardiness when asked by BBC Radio 5 Live about a list of fines which recently leaked out of the Chelsea camp.
āĀ£20,000 late for the starting of training ā that is a lot. But everything else seems to be in sync,ā said the former City and Aston Villa defender.
āBut Balotelli was always late.
āWe used to give all of our money to charities so by Christmas time weād have Ā£100,000 or Ā£150,000 in there just from Balotelli.
āHe would be in the building. Say we had a meeting upstairs ā heād just be downstairs relaxing. Heād come to the meeting but he was just a bit dozy.ā
Richards also revealed that in his role as City vice-captain, he was also made to awkwardly collect the fines from the other players by club captain Vincent Kompany.
āKompany, heās busy isnāt he? He just looks like that person anyway.
āHe always kept a track of the fines and because I was sort of vice-captain, one of the leaders in the dressing room, heād tell me to take charge of it.
āBut Iām not going to say to the manager āOh player was late today, oh player didnāt put his bib in the washing machineā. Iām not going to do that.
āSo it was only if Vincent Kompany caught you, so the lads were avoiding him. Iām not a snitch!ā
āYou could appeal it as well. You had to go with Kompany into the managerās office.
āHe had a fine sheet logged of all the fines. He was like a schoolteacher, a headmaster. One of those guys that when you see him, you just turn the other way.ā