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Five goals from three Ligue 1 starts could go some way to explaining Mario Balotelli’s new lease of life.

The Italian front man had shrunken into his shell during his catastrophic spell with Liverpool, but a dream start with OGC Nice has seen the return of the Mario of old, the same larger than life personality that, out of boredom, set off a pyrotechnical display in his own home.

The 26-year-old took to Instagram on Sunday to gauge public opinion about a possible new hairstyle, one that will be very familiar to fans of Colombian football from the 1990s.

Styling what can only be described as the ‘Carlos Valderrama’ look (with carefully trimmed moustache to boot), Mario poses a simple question: ‘Yea or Nah?’