Adding weight turns costly for Balloteli

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Ligue 1 side OGC Nice has fined their striker Mario Balotelli for returning to the club overweight.

The Italian forward returned weighing 20kgs more than his normal weight and the club president Jean-Pierre Rivère revealed that he has been punished for that.
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The former Manchester City and Liverpool forward had been picked for international duty by Roberto Mancini but was dropped for the second UEFA Nations League encounter against Portugal.

“Mario will have a great season because we’ll put him in the best condition and because he’s a great player. He, however, Nice doesn’t have the habit of treating certain players differently. Mario played himself offside. At last year’s biennial renewal, we predicted a cut for the second season in the event of a lack of European qualification. He would have left elsewhere, but he stayed, so we raised the salary because finding a striker like that is expensive, but Mario earns less than the first year.” Rivere is quoted as saying.

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He was subject of a transfer move to rivals Marseille but that did not pan out. He, however, will earn less salary than he was during his first year at Nice.

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