- City have accepted £20m deal which will see striker earning £3m a year
- Supporter stumbled across supercar while star was eating out with friends
- Comes as it emerges 22-year-old hosted ‘leaving party’ at his £3m mansion
- ‘Told his friends they could take anything as a souvenir… except his pants’
- Fuels speculation controversial player may be leaving Manchester for Italy
Mario Balotelli is off to AC Milan after Manchester City agreed a £20m deal with the Italian club this afternoon.
City have accepted an offer from Milan understood to be in the region of £17million plus £2.5m in add-ons.
Balotelli has also helped the deal to go through by agreeing a pay-cut of nearly £1m so he could join his boyhood club on a £3m-a-year deal.
He is now set to pull out of the City squad for tonight’s game at QPR and fly to Milan to complete the move.
The news emerged just hours after a Manchester United fan was caught urinating on the £160,000 Bentley belonging to rival City footballer Mario.
Leaked picture: This Manchester United fan was snapped having a pee on Mario Balotelli’s Bentley
Taking the pee: The fan stumbled across the car outside Manchester’s trendy Indian restaurant Zouk
These photos, reportedly taken on Sunday night, show the supporter taking a leak on the driver’s side door of the camouflaged supercar while the 22-year-old striker was eating a meal with friends.
Balotelli’s Bentley is easily identifiable and a group of friends, all from the red half of the city, appear to have stumbled across the car outside Manchester’s trendy Indian restaurant Zouk.
It is some send-off for the controversial Italian, who may finally be leaving City this week after Italian giants AC Milan opened talks with the Premier League champions about a £24m move.
Rumours of his departure grew further today after it was claimed he hosted what appeared to be a leaving party at his £3million rented mansion in Cheshire.
A Manchester City insider told The Sun: ‘Mario got his mates round and told them they could take whatever they wanted so they took a lot of designer gear and some football memorabilia including shirts. But he told all of them not to touch his pants.’
Ride and joy: Balotelli posing alongside his camouflaged Bentley and quad bike in a matching jacket
Checking out? Balotelli could be about to leave Manchester and return to Milan
Items he gave away included football boots, City tops, footballs and designer clothes.
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who returned to Twitter this week after self-imposed exile, said: ‘Seems like Mario Balotelli is on his way to Milan. Must say, I think I’ll miss the madness.’
Mario Balotelli’s agent, Mino Raiola, told MailOnline: ‘I’m not interested in talking to the press’ before hanging up.
Balotelli was seen carrying some belongings from the club’s training ground yesterday, where he reportedly said his farewells to team-mates and signed a shirt for coach Brian Kidd.
He then joined his team-mates in London for the game against QPR at Loftus Road tonight.
Last week, it was revealed Balotelli had given notice on his plush mansion four-bedroom property in the WAGs’ mecca of Alderley Edge, which boasts a heated indoor swimming pool, wine cellar, private cinema and even an astro turf putting green for perfecting those golf strokes.
Mario’s mansion: Balotelli has given notice on the Lodge, situated in the WAGs’ paradise of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, which is now available to rent for £13,495 a month
Sneak peek: The detached four bedroom property boasts a heated indoor swimming pool
Private cinema: The plush media room would be ideal for catching the football highlights on Match Of The Day
The property, which has gone on the market for a cool £13,500 a month, also houses a lounge and media suite with an enormous wall-mounted flat screen, a wine cellar to store supplies for impromptu parties, and a ‘spectacular’ leisure suite with heated swimming pool and gym.
Balotelli’s decision to leave the property, which will be available from February 16, fuelled speculation the larger-than-life Italian could leave the UK for football abroad.
The 22-year-old, who regularly hits the headlines for his antics on and off the football pitch, was involved in a training ground bust-up with City boss Roberto Mancini earlier this month.
In December, he was also fined £340,000 after missing a fifth of City’s games through suspension.
Face-off: Balotelli and Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini were involved in a bust-up earlier this month
Push and pull: The scuffle was the latest in a long line of controversial incidents during his time at City
But he has enjoyed success on the pitch since his move three years ago, scoring 20 goals in 54 league appearances for City and winning the Premier League and FA Cup.
He also made headlines when he accidentally set another of his Cheshire homes on fire after he and his friends let off fireworks inside.
The eccentric sportsman famously set his rented £3million home in Manchester alight in 2011 after setting off the pyrotechnics in the bathroom.
Milan are understood to have offered £20m for Balotelli but City, who have also had vague contact from Juventus, are determined to stick to their valuation.
Milan are expected to make another bid for the Italy forward after their audacious last-minute move for former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba fell through.
Nothing can prove that this guy is a Man U fan,stop painting us bad
How do u know he's a Man U fan?