Balotelli spent two of his three years at City alongside Aguero, with the pair famously combining for the last-minute goal against QPR that sealed the club's first Premier League title win in dramatic fashion in May 2012.
Since then the fortunes of the two men have gone in contrasting directions. Balotelli departed first City and then AC Milan in acrimonious circumstances and is currently being widely criticised for failing to live up to his £16 million price tag at Liverpool, scoring just once in his first 10 appearances in all competitions and causing controversy by swapping shirts with Pepe at half-time of Wednesday's 3-0 humbling by Real Madrid at Anfield.
Since then the fortunes of the two men have gone in contrasting directions. Balotelli departed first City and then AC Milan in acrimonious circumstances and is currently being widely criticised for failing to live up to his £16 million price tag at Liverpool, scoring just once in his first 10 appearances in all competitions and causing controversy by swapping shirts with Pepe at half-time of Wednesday's 3-0 humbling by Real Madrid at Anfield.
"I still miss Mario Balotelli being at City," Aguero reveals in his new autobiography, 'Born to rise: My story', serialised by the Daily Mirror. "Even though he used to drive us all nuts."We all knew Mario was a little crazy. The thing was, Mario was crazy when he wanted to be. He’d do daft things whenever he felt like it because he thought he could.
"We’d go out on the training pitch and he’d kick the balls away in different directions just to be silly, or he’d throw cheese over people when he was sat in the dining room."I couldn’t help but wind him up, calling him silly names and toying with him. But he knew it was because I loved Mario – everyone loved him."
"We’d go out on the training pitch and he’d kick the balls away in different directions just to be silly, or he’d throw cheese over people when he was sat in the dining room."I couldn’t help but wind him up, calling him silly names and toying with him. But he knew it was because I loved Mario – everyone loved him."
Aguero also revealed that the rest of the City squad were kept in the dark about Balotelli's now infamous 'Why always me?' t-shirt celebration during City's 6-1 mauling of Manchester United at Old Trafford in October 2011."Nobody knew he had that t-shirt on when we played United at Old Trafford – he must have hidden it beneath a vest," the Argentine insisted. "If we'd known we'd have told him to take it off.
"But later when I looked at the ‘Why Always Me?’ message on the front, I told him that if he was calmer and didn’t do so many things, it probably wouldn’t always be him."
"But later when I looked at the ‘Why Always Me?’ message on the front, I told him that if he was calmer and didn’t do so many things, it probably wouldn’t always be him."
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