Stoke City pulled off the signing off Bojan last summer, they agreed a fee for Xherdan Shaqiri yesterday and they now want Mario Balotelli for £14m!
Well – that’s until you root into the rumours a little more, which actually seem complete and utter nonsense.
A reddit user spotted this made up tweet and decided to share it everywhere…
‘Liverpool has accepted a bid from Stoke City for Mario’ – Mino Raiola (Balotellis agent) on Radio Naples #lfc #scfc
— ryan (@ryanclarke__) July 2, 2015
Before a Liverpool Twitter acccount with 58.5k followers tweeted this, and set the internet into overdrive…
Stoke City are looking at Mario Balotelli, and could make a bid of £14m. They will continue paying the same wages. [Guardian] — LFC Fans Corner (@LFCFansCorner) July 2, 2015
Then – this happened! Please, Reds – take this with a pinch of salt. As far as we can tell, it’s utter garbage. We just found it pretty entertaining.
Balotelli to Stoke. A rumour made entirely up on Reddit
— Andrew (@Hesfivefootfour) July 2, 2015
Balotelli linked with £14m move to Stoke. The carousel may have accidentally started a rumour http://t.co/tEu12tf0Aw https://t.co/AIx8yg08Kc
— JOE.co.uk (@JOE_co_uk) July 2, 2015
Imagine this for a few seconds… Arnie Bojan Shaqiri Balotelli! No words to describe it!
— Matthew Degg (@deggyeggy2) July 2, 2015
Stoke want Balotelli for £14million pic.twitter.com/04hb5jS2Nq
— Mark. (@FirminoStrike) July 2, 2015
Balotelli is too Balotelli for Stoke.
— John M O’Sullivan (@NotoriousJOS) July 2, 2015
Who has started the Balotelli to Stoke rumour? HAHAHA
— Danny Biram Diouf (@DannyPenfold) July 2, 2015
Interested to see how will Balotelli do at Stoke, if he does move there. Seems like a good transfer.
— ALLout (@follow_ALLout) July 2, 2015
Newcastle want a season long loan deal for Balotelli while Stoke want to do a permanent deal
— Football Mumble (@FootballMumble) July 2, 2015
Stoke City in for Balotelli. That’s way too sexy.
— Emil Gustafsson (@emilshankly) July 2, 2015