Balotelli wants to be like Ibrahimovic, claims Mancini

Roberto Mancini says Mario Balotelli would like to replicate the success of Zlatan Ibrahimovic but needs to learn a few things first.

The pair played together at Inter Milan under Roberto Mancini, when Balotelli was just a teenager, but the Italian boss has said that the Liverpool striker has always wanted to emulate the Swedish striker in his career.

“Mario would like to emulate Ibrahimovic,” said Mancini at an event held at the Bocconi University in Milan.

“But Zlatan has a few more years and has accumulated a degree of experience, quality, class and strength that he [Balotelli] is yet to acquire, even though he’s been playing for many years.

“Balotelli has that potential and no doubt they were extraordinary together back in the day.

“Mario was so young, now he dwells a bit too much on so many things. I hope and wish for him to become like Ibrahimovic.”


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