{"id":103113,"date":"2014-08-25T22:36:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=103113"},"modified":"2014-08-25T22:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:36:28","slug":"mario-balotelli-signs-for-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=103113","title":{"rendered":"Mario Balotelli Signs for Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mario-balotelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103107\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mario-balotelly.jpg\" alt=\"\u0544\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0578 \u0532\u0561\u056c\u0578\u057f\u0565\u056c\u056c\u056b\" width=\"634\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mario-balotelly.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mario-balotelly-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mario-balotelly-440x300.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool has signed Italy striker Mario Balotelli from AC Milan, taking a calculated gamble on a headline-grabbing player known as much for his controversies as his goals.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen months after ending a 2\u00bd-year spell with Manchester City to play for his boyhood club, Balotelli returns to the English Premier League as a replacement for Luis Suarez \u2014 another of world football&#8217;s talented but disruptive stars.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool has been looking to strengthen its strikeforce after selling Suarez to Barcelona for $130 million.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at City, in which he won the league title, Balotelli was sent off four times, threw a dart at a youth-team player and was involved in an incident that saw fireworks let off in his bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Liverpool has signed Italy striker Mario Balotelli from AC Milan, taking a calculated gamble&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,173,224],"tags":[13743,13742],"class_list":["post-103113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-football","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-mario-balotelli","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}