Revealed: Incredible clause in Balotelli’s Liverpool contract
The finer details of Mario Balotelli’s Liverpool contract have been revealed by The Times, which included a £1million behaviour bonus.
The 26-year-old would apparently net the seven-figure sum every season that he did not get into trouble at least three times, meaning he could have spat a player twice and still received the bonus on top of his reported £85,000-a-week wages.
The newspaper reports that the clause said: “If during each season of the term of this contract the player is not dismissed from the field of play on three or more occasions for violent conduct, spitting at an opponent or any other person, for using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures and/or for dissent by word or action . . . then on the 30th June at the end of each season he shall receive a bonus payment of £1m.”
Balotelli would also reportedly receive £25,000 for each of first his first five Premier League goals for the Reds and £50,000 for any goal scored after that.
The Italian would only scored four goals in 24 appearances for Liverpool before eventually being offloaded on a free transfer to Nice in the summer.