MANCHESTER - Quoting a Beady Eye song :). New girlfriend for Mario, the showgirl Raffaella Fico, and finally he's following what I usually do, as Noel Gallagher: no driving but getting a chauffeur.
City's eccentric Italian ace Balotelli is resorting to a £3,000-a-week chauffeur - after racking up £10,000 in parking fines.
The Maserati-loving striker is fed up with his flash motors being impounded after 27 trips to retrieve them last season.
He is also furious at his beloved white model constantly being vandalised when parked near his home in Manchester's Deansgate.
Balotelli - who cost City £24million from Inter Milan last summer and earns £100,000 a week - is now being ferried around in a Mercedes limo by a driver from local firm Elite Cars. The chauffeur works for him full-time while the player's own motors are garaged.
A source said: "Mario was getting tired of all the hassle with his cars. He was spending a fortune on repairs to his vandalised Maserati.
"He was also advised by the club to sort out his parking fines because of all the unnecessary admin."
The madcap ace shelled out more than £300,000 in club fines last season. They included a week's wages for throwing darts at a youth team player.
The Maserati-loving striker is fed up with his flash motors being impounded after 27 trips to retrieve them last season.
He is also furious at his beloved white model constantly being vandalised when parked near his home in Manchester's Deansgate.
Balotelli - who cost City £24million from Inter Milan last summer and earns £100,000 a week - is now being ferried around in a Mercedes limo by a driver from local firm Elite Cars. The chauffeur works for him full-time while the player's own motors are garaged.
A source said: "Mario was getting tired of all the hassle with his cars. He was spending a fortune on repairs to his vandalised Maserati.
"He was also advised by the club to sort out his parking fines because of all the unnecessary admin."
The madcap ace shelled out more than £300,000 in club fines last season. They included a week's wages for throwing darts at a youth team player.
