This Balotelli issue brings into mind the popular nursery rhyme ‘When I was a poor man, my family didn’t know me, when I was a rich man, my family wrote me a letter…’ I am not by any means saying the Balotelli family in Ghana is fraud but the way things are going with his family in Italy and those back home also settling in, things are beginning to look like they are desperate… How can a single family member be all of a sudden exceptionally important like this? Money talks right? Read below for NewsOne’s report on the issue The Ghanaian extended family of Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has joined persistent pleas from his biological parents that he should return to them. Mario is a top striker whose transfer value has soared to £52million and though he was born to Ghanaian parents, Rose and Thomas Barwuah, on August 12, 1990, he was adopted by foster parents at age three because of medical reasons. He was born in Palermo, a city in Southern Italy and was adopted by Italians. There are two versions to the story of how Mario got adopted by Italian foster parents, the Balotellis. Mario said in an interview that he was abandoned in a hospital by his biological parents, the Barwuahs.