Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has been banned from his own apartment.

The Sunday Mirror says Balotelli has been banned from returning to his ­£3million mansion ... by his landlord who wants compensation for a trail of damage.

The volatile Manchester City striker is still living in a ­city-centre hotel more than three months after a firework was let off in a bathroom at his £2,000-a-week rented Cheshire house.

And the Italian, 21, is now in a stand-off with the landlord, who won't let him back in until he settles a ­damages bill running to tens of ­thousands of pounds.

The sum includes fire ­damage and the ­wrecking of expensive ­dining room chairs.

But ­Balotelli - paid £100,000 a week - is ­disputing the level of the bill and is refusing to pay up.