Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has fined Mario Balotelli for his antics last week.

The Daily Mail says Mancini fined Balotelli £250,000 on Sunday for breaking a pre-match curfew and told him marriage may be the way to cure his wild streak.

Increasingly exasperated by the Manchester City striker's off-field antics, Mancini imposed the maximum penalty of two weeks' wages after quizzing him about being photographed leaving a strip club in Liverpool at 2.45am on Friday.