5 forgotten football stars who are back in form this season

1) Mario Balotelli

Why always you Mario? Balotelli was never a forgotten man in the media sense of the word. He was always a name that every football fan was never gonna forget. A player the media just gobbled up all day long because of his antics on and off the pitch.

But somewhere Mario got lost along the way and he was no more grabbing the headlines. Neither was he performing on the pitch nor was he making his own headlines with his self-perpetuated craziness.

The world wondered when he would awake from his slumber and even ruled him out to ever hit the heights he achieved at Inter and his first couple of years at Manchester City. But that all changed when he moved to Nice in France on a free from Liverpool.

Mario is well and truly back this season. The forgotten man has suddenly burst into life in France and can’t stop scoring at the moment. Lucien Favre seems to have ignited the fire that was slowly dying out.

Balotelli after scoring just 2 league goals in 2 years now has 6 in his first 6 appearances for Nice as they sit pretty on top of Ligue 1. It’s quite a remarkable turnaround and the Italian has even suggested he will come back to the Premier League in a year and prove his doubters wrong.