Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli reportedly recently visited a launderette close to the club's Melwood training ground to ask how the washing machines worked.

The 24-year-old, who scored his first Liverpool goal in the Reds' 2-1 victory over Ludogorets Razgrad in the Champions League earlier this month, has been settling into life back in England.

According to the Daily Star, Balotelli wandered into a launderette and asked Liverpool fan Terry Johnson how the machines worked.

Despite getting some advice, the Italy international, who apparently looked like "a kid in a museum", left the launderette without using any of the machines.

Meanwhile, police are investigating messages of an alleged racist nature, which were sent to Balotelli on Twitter after he mocked Manchester United following Sunday's 5-3 defeat to Leicester City.