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AC Milan chief Gandini: Balotelli not natural striker

AC Milan sports chief Umberto ­Gandini doesn't rate Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli as a natural goalscorer.

Gandini says the £16million sale of the troubled Italian striker to Liverpool in late August made everyone at the club "happy".

He told the Daily Star Sunday: "The way Mario plays is not like a pure number nine, a centre-forward.

"Our problem at Milan was not having a forward who played in the box. But Mario was not used to doing that."

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