
Originally Posted by
Boss
He is still a project player, which if the club is to reach the heights all of us do we don't really have time for. He's also expensive, given that clubs which have to live under normal circumstances are generally only able to afford one of which each year means he's a terrible example even when placed against Giroud (who is nowhere near the world's top strikers and never will be, to be fair - that said neither are Dzeko, Welbeck, Hernandez, and so on).
Easiest way is to ask whether you would have taken Balotelli this summer instead of Podolski and Giroud - a question I think most would have the same answer to, and it doesn't favour the Italian.