Micah Richards Revealed How Much Mario Balotelli Was Fined At Manchester City

Mario Balotelli's shenanigans down the years are pretty well known, even if some of them aren't always true, and the former Manchester City striker once racked up thousands of pounds worth of fines for being late.

"Everything else seems to be within sync. Balotelli was always late," the former City full back told BBC 5 Live, back in 2019.

"We used to give all of our money to charities and by Christmas time we'd have £100,000 or £150,000 in there all from Balotelli being late.

"He would be in the building.

"Say we had a meeting upstairs - he'd be downstairs just relaxing.

"He'd come to the meeting but he was just a bit dozy."

Richards was one of the players who was supposed to collect on the fines and, according to what the pundit said, it sounds like Balotelli certainly could have been fined more.

"Kompany, he's busy isn't he? He just looks like that person anyway," Richards added.

"He always kept a track of the fines and because I was sort of vice-captain, one of the leaders in the dressing room, he'd ask me to take charge of it.

"But I wasn't going to say to the manager 'Oh player was late today, oh player didn't put his bib in the washing machine'.

"So it was only if Vincent Kompany caught you. I'm not a snitch.

Balotelli will be glad that Frank Lampard was never his manager, the Everton boss famously had a long list of offences that carried fines when he was Chelsea gaffer.