Police were called to Mario Balotelli's mansion after the Manchester City star was mistakenly identified as a burglar!

The 21-year-old Italian had returned to his £3million home with a friend to collect electrical goods following a blaze there last month.

Friends of the striker had set off fireworks in the bathroom of his rented home in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, and since then he has been living away.

However, on returning to his luxury property recently neighbours failed to recognise the Manchester City striker and called the police, thinking that the home was being burgled.

A source told The Sun: "The report was of two men running down a road carrying stuff and loading up a 4x4."