A potted history of Mario Balotelli's greatest escapades

Thanks to his imminent £16m switch to Liverpool, Mario Balotelli is about to come back under the remit of us English journalists.

During his three seasons at Manchester City he was rarely out of the headlines, and to be fair, even during his 18 month return to Milan a few tales made their way over to England.

But with more tabloid stories than he's scored goals, you may well have missed some of them. So we've collated together the Balotelli tales: