Joey Barton Bags £300,000 Pay-Off From Manchester City To Newcastle United
THAT misbehaving cheeky-chappy Joey Barton has no excuse to punch someone in the face today after he finally pocketed a hard-fought £300,000 from Manchester City.
The controversial midfielder had agreed to join Newcastle United from City last week but the deal had stalled after Barton claimed that he was still due the large “loyalty payment” from his Man City deal. (This is not a joke.)
Aware that West Ham United could try to hijack the deal and bring Barton to Upton Park, new Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce, along with chairman Freddy Shepherd, decided to pay the outstanding cash themselves, thus upping their bid for the combative player to £5.8milllion.
Barton leaves behind him a trail of controversial incidents at City which included him hospitalising a team-mate in training with a venomous right-hook, stubbing out a cigar on a youth-team player’s face, assaulting a child and mooning at opposition fans.
If Barton can add brawling with Kieran Dyer on the pitch to his considerable talents, he should fit right in…
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June 15th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
At least it answers the question: what price loyalty?
June 15th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
What an absolute joke. The audacity of this lad is beyond comprehension. I believe we took the right approach here and think Newcastle should have called his bluff questioning whether he really wanted to move up north for trophies, as he keeps banging on about, or if he just joins the growing list of ridiculously pampered premiership footballers.
Barton has become so far detached from reality that his version of loyalty is attacking fellow team members, criticising far better players than himself and thinking it acceptable to demand a sum of money that most working class lads, such as himself, just cannot comprehend.
This last point must be put into context, as most people would rightfully fight for £300,000, however, his Newcastle wage will reportedly earn him £16m over the course of his contract.
The greed and bare faced cheek of this boy is too much to swallow for most blues and I hope we give him the reception he deserves when he returns here.
Willie McKay must be rubbing his hands in glee and no coincidence that this parasite also looks after Sylvain Distin, both of whom had been engineering a move away from City for a considerable amount of time.
Loyalty!! What a Joke.