AC Milan sports chief Umberto Gandini admits they were delighted to offload Mario Balotelli to Liverpool in the summer.
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: "We all felt coming to Italy, to a place where he was loved, would have been the ideal environment for him to blossom into a star player.
"But it didn't work out for both sides.
"Mario was not the kind of player we were looking for in order to have a better team on the pitch.
"On the other hand, he probably felt the Premier League was the best stage for him to perform on and he wanted to go back there.
"So Liverpool came at just the right time. It just made everyone happy."
