Joey Barton will not be in the squad for Newcastle’s final pre-season game tomorrow against Fiorentina, before the lads take on Arsenal next Saturday.
Joey Barton – had a relapse this last week
And it’s probably doubtful if Joey will be in the squad for the Arsenal game a week tomorrow, assuming of course that he’s still a Newcastle player at that time.
Pardew has had a couple of talks with Barton this week, and has told him to calm down, and the Liverpudlian will remain training with the Reserve squad – the Development squad – until further notice, and he still remains on the transfer list as a free agent.
Alan talked to the local Newcastle press today:
“We have already stated he is on a free transfer, and Joey can decide whether he wants to stay for the year and commit to what we are doing or move on.”
“Only Joey can decide. He will train with that group.” “I never shut a door – I never have done in my career and never will.”
“Unless it is an incident where violence has occurred, or something horrible, and we are a million miles from that.”
The ball is squarely in Joey’s court now, and if he had hopes that a few big teams like Arsenal and Manchester United would come after him, he will probably be disappointed because it looks like Stoke City and his home town club, Everton, are the only two Premier clubs that have enquired about him.
And neither one of those clubs will be able to offer him £60K/week, which is what he’s on for the last year of his contract if he wants to stay on Tyneside, but he will need to change his ways if he is to stay on board at Newcastle.
And it doesn’t augur well for Joey for next summer either, because after all he’s just completed a stellar season for Newcastle, and if there was ever a time a big club would want him, it would be now.
But Joey, by his constant tweeting of things not good, seems to have put off a lot of clubs that were first said to be interested in him, when he was put up for sale last Monday.
And Pardew has refused to confirm if Barton would be in the squad for Arsenal next weekend:
“I am not going to answer that.” “He is not going to be involved at the weekend, because we need this to calm down.”
“I would not do this press conference if it was not for the Fiorentina game because everyone needs to take a breather, but of course the fans need a message from me as to where we are at.”
“The situation with Joey is that it is time for everybody to take a breath and reflect.” “What happened on Sunday with Joey and myself could have been sorted out if it was not for Twitter.”
“I have had a couple of conversations with Joey regarding that.” “We all have to pull together at the club – we have to.” “Joey has to pull with us and he has to believe in everything we are doing here.”
While Joey has done great over the last two years in his brave rehabilitation from his many demons, and after spending time in jail in the summer of 2008, this has sadly been a sliding backwards for the 28 year-old.
What this past week has done for Joey is to remind everybody he can be trouble-maker, so Joey should at least understand that.
If he wants to stay at Newcastle, then that’s just fine, but we don’t want him to stay if he’s going to cause trouble every couple of weeks.
It’s a cliche we know – but it’s now completely up to Joey now.
Comments welcome.
48 comments so far
sammydolan
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Comment #1Just go!
TemuriKetsbaia
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Comment #2Barton available on a free transfer…Liverpool have bid £15m
Nathaaan
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Comment #3Hope he plays for us next season, playied well last two years and I think he can do it again.
ross armstrong
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Comment #4just go??? so you want wna our best players to ‘JUST GO’? i think hes daft sayn all the stuff on twitter but i wud hate him to go hes important to our team!!!
smythurs
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Comment #5the circus rolls back into town! every time just when ya think we are back to normality something ridiculous happens!luckily we r playin the gunners who r in a bit of bad spot wit the cesc thing and fans not happy
kilcline
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Comment #6People banged on about “spirit” when Nolan left, Nolan offered little else when Carroll left, Barton on the other hand offers so much more and we will be so much weaker without him.
ONLINE GUY
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:24 PM
Comment #7Just Stay!
We have enough yes men at the club. We need the whole team to speak en bloc about whats on their mind’s that way the owner will understand where Joey and Jose are coming from..its Healthy and it brings things out into the open. Things get fixed that way
The Owner has a yes man manager ,,Should the players not voice an opinion ?
Joey was the only one brave enough to speak out and he is being punished for the truth from Mr Fat Bastard
All of the players should speak out if theres a problem
Whats Ashley going to do then ? Sack the whole team
What a dictator.
davybtoon
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Comment #8i doubt barton will play for us ever again
spitfire_
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Comment #9@ross armstrong
So you want one of our best players to talk in tw@ter and put the squad, the board and the fans in limbo? First of all he has a chance to take extension but he refuse it, then he criticize the tranfer policy. After that the board said to him that he can leave on free and after that he say that he want to stay… Is that so stupid and childish or he is pregnant because his actions is inconsistent and illogical.
sammydolan
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Comment #10The detrimental effect him and his gob is having is awful & to the outside, who the hell would want to come to a team that has players like Joey Barton crying about not playing.
Ps. He was texting him slut of a ex at one point whilst I was with her, this, obviously is not taken into consideration WHAT SO EVER. 🙂
davybtoon
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Comment #11online guy – yes the players should voice there opinion but it should be done in house not in public, the press try n bring this club down any chance they get we dont need it
ONLINE GUY
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Comment #12Newcastle United are being run like a financial institution, not a football Team
And it now just seems like A dictatorship
Ashley the Fat controller
Ashley the Dictator
Imagine being fined one hundred thousand pounds for telling the fans whats wrong at the club ?
The owner dont like the truth
Christ Ashley, please please F**k off .
davybtoon
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Comment #13probelm is we all want signings but the window isnt shut ive said time n time again we hav to judge on 31august n if its the same everyone will b kickin off but to hav this negitivity when deals could still happen is jus stupid
Dannyo
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Comment #14Joey is doin my head in, and i wish Pards would close the door on him.
He’s blackened a troubling pre-season even more.
And it won’t get better in the future, the sooner he goes the better imo.
Can we move on from Joey now pls? Every second piece of news that comes up atm has Joey in it, its not ok.
Rotonda heights
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Comment #15Barton cares about number 1. He has the ego the size of America. It’s all about him. No I in team Joey. Time to go and take your circus, antics and baggage with you. The distraction is not worth it. He’s hardly helping team spirit now is he. Oh hang on….. no one actually wants him.
Gav00Toon
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:40 PM
Comment #16Joey just fu**ing leave.
Why does everything with the club drag on and on.
All we want is to see a mint striker arrive, with only a week to go before BPL starts its looking less and less likley.
The team we see tomorrow could be the main team (-Tiote) we see this season.
liddz
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Comment #17Is Barton still here……….
shearerno9
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Comment #18it actually seems like pardew is finally starting to grow a pair, his last two interviews are doubtful as to whether mike or derek would want that in the papers…. essentially pardew has shifted much of the blame of transfers onto others because he has been hassling them — or so he says. Now he will have to play barton at some point if he stays, he knows this… whether mike wants him gone or not, pards know how important he is to the team
ONLINE GUY
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Comment #19DavyB
No good doing it in house ,,Wont get you anywhere as in house means nothing gets done about it ,Joey said what we are all thinking and saying.
Best out in the open as there is no point keeping it a secret .
I like the fact that Joey tells it like it is and Jose too !
you see KK said he was surrounded by Liar’s
I like to think with the help of Jose and Joey
we now have the liars surrounded.
Wayne Rooney Kicked off big time at Man U ..Saying the club was dying ! and was on its way down ! and they needed new players of top class ability ,,as he would leave if they did not start signing some quality ..
Man u then moved heaven and earth to keep him Even though he spoke out big time ..front page headlines !
Ashley just cant take the truth ..and we need a revolution at Newcastle ,,never mind suppressing the truth cause you dont want to see it in the news shite papers ..Dont worry about that ..And dragging our name through the mud ?,,well nothing changes because the soft southern Bas**rd Hacks will make stuff up anyway
I can think of dozens of disgusting stories from 5under1an* but they never appear in the press because the Mackems are no threat to footballs so called elite, Man u etc Chelski etc
Football is not a level playing field anymore ,,if it ever has been,,, Biased refs and Money at the top 4 or 5 clubs has ruined the prem..No chance of an Aston Villa or an Everton or Newcastle ever winning the league again is there ?….
Just remember one thing before you post an opinion again Davy…
We are going nowhere and middle table to relegation scrap is all you have to look forward to now mate.
Frank pingles come sock
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:53 PM
Comment #20Obertan has signed 100% true
If not I will eat my own brown stuff in a seeded bun
DoctorZelig
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Comment #21I simply don’t get the fans that do not agree with the clubs handeling of the Barton situation.
He’s had more then enough chances to grow up and we pretty much saved his career for him.
Sign that extension or fuck off you overpaid twat!
If he does not extend before mid August I believe he should be sent out on a season long loan to keep the harmony in the squad.
veto
Aug 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Comment #22i think people need to stop trying to paint him as the villain here , what was said via twitter was nothing but a few words of frustration that anybody is entitled to say aloud for anyone to hear or put down in your favorite social media site for anyone connected to you to read , trouble being we don’t get newspaper writers sensationalising everything we post.
and the bigger issue is it was born out of frustration we fan’s are feeling , a great nucleus of a squad that was perfect to build on and gave fans after what has been a miserable number of years , something to look forward to again , instead what we have seen is what was hinted at by the regime for many moons , high sell on value targets at discount price’s with the hope that premiership exposure trebles their resale value .
the same time instead of just doing all that in the background we have dismanteled a pretty decent squad in some cases for lots of money with no reinvestment back in the team
JAMSHA
Aug 5, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Comment #23and Joey can decide whether he wants to stay for the year and commit to what we are doing or move on.”
What does these word mean?
Sell our best players n fill that fat cu*ts pocket. N lie everytime.
ONLINE GUY
Aug 5, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Comment #24Im with Kevin Keegan on everything.
norwegian fan
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM
Comment #25To Online Guy,
So, every player should be allowed to put forward their opinion about the club on twitter etc. ? How many employees could do that elsewhere in society. Please use your brain Online guy…..
norwegian fan
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Comment #26and as far as I know Ashley is far from filling his pockets.
How much money has he put into the club. Grow up Jamsha.
AndyMac
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Comment #27Shambles. If this club was a proper business, Fatman would be asking the Chairman to resign 🙂
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/ashley-gets-his-way-bernstein-stands-down-at-blacks-leisure-2332026.html
“101 ways on how to f@@k up a good thing” is due out on sale next week authored by MJW Ashley and A Terwatt.
Davies
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Comment #28Online Guy – Joey Barton isn’t Wayne Rooney. A million miles from it in fact.
Barton is causing trouble and you’re condoning it?
If you’re too blind to see that he’s exploiting your open hatred of Mike Ashley, I’m amazed you can find the keys to type.
Try to remember what Barton is. Before he had his good season here, would you have backed him the way you are now?
If the answer is yes, you’re full of sh*t and yet another antagonist looking for a reason to point the finger at the club.
Was it Mike Ashley’s fault that Barton was a vile, thuggish waste of space for so many years before last season?
norwegian fan
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:51 PM
Comment #29Davies,
fully agree with you!!!
BOOM BOOM THE 1ST
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Comment #30with those latest quotes by pardew looks like it was his call not the fat man at all
G
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Comment #31I love JB the player, but the man is showing his true colours now. This is getting very old, very fast. Some good points about this on both the pro JB and anti JB camp. Truth is, I don’t know who is right or wrong in this one, but I am tired of reading about JB. Shut up, or put up Joey.
norwegian fan
Aug 5, 2011 at 8:58 PM
Comment #32About twitter:
Gordon Taylor: “Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game,”
Allardyce: “Ban it. It is uncontrollable. It just gives an opening for too much abuse,
It’s a great piece of technology, but in most cases it gets people into far too much trouble.”
Rotonda heights
Aug 5, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Comment #33superb davies
unfortunately some people make us look like thick geordie stereotypes
toon_dog
Aug 5, 2011 at 9:47 PM
Comment #34can any one remember after the 4-4 with arsenal barton saying when diaby got sent of he seen the confidence just drop in fabergas’s face n encouraged the lads on ?????? hope we sort it out. but he will accept if cabs better at dead balls he needs to step asside
CAToon
Aug 5, 2011 at 9:50 PM
Comment #35For most every other player who behaved like Mr. Barton, I would quickly show them the door. He is different and despite his rants a quality midfielder who “gets” the Newcastle playing style. He should stay and see out his contract. Use the year to show other clubs that he is worth $60K/wk and new five year deal.
Papa Noel
Aug 5, 2011 at 10:07 PM
Comment #36Spitfire@No9
If he was inconsistent and illogical, I’m not surprised he got pregnant.
chuck
Aug 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Comment #37Well it seems we have a reactionary bunch here on the blog, with most condeming Joey for voicing his opinion.
Actually very few give anykind of valid reason for their objection, mostly generalities such as he makes a lotta money(jealous) he causes some kinda disrepute in regards to the club(vague) etc , etc.
Most have ‘nt actually realised Joey and twitter have become a cause celeb in the world of foorball.
Joey in quoting philosiphers and the quotes of many famous people has, transformed his image from a former thug to an interesting persona and will no doubt become the darling of the press and media in general.’
As for those condeming his right to freedom of speech, you just dont get it, in fact most arguments condeming him are obviously from those who have’nt really given much thought to the subject and probably have never been fans of Joey to begin with.
ah well!
jesperfuglsang
Aug 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM
Comment #38@DoctorZelig I am more or less with you on this one. It’s really sad how some people on this blog keep using our current owner as an excuse for people like Barton to have the right to act like a spoiled brat.
If this was Man Utd. or Arsenal Barton would have been out the door a long long time ago.
There seems to be this attitude on this blog, that if your not with us then your against us. We don’t have to like MA to support NUFC and we sure as hell don’t have to tolerate Bartons behavior.
There is something called a catch-all clause in the standard Premier League contract that gives Newcastle recourse to disciplinary action towards Barton.
“Whenever circumstances permit the player shall give to the club reasonable notice of his intention to make any contributions to the public media in order to allow representations to be made to him on behalf of the club if it so desires,” reads clause 3.2.5 of every Premier League player’s contract.
I would say that Barton has not run his thoughts past the club before clicking the send button on any of his tweets.
So veto, Barton is the villain here whether or not there is any truth in his tweets. And NO you are not entitled to bad mouth your employer aloud for anyone to hear or put down in your favorite social media site for anyone connected to you to read.
jesperfuglsang
Aug 5, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Comment #39@chuck here’s a quote for you from a famous philosopher:
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Give me a break; never have I read anything further from the truth.
stuart no9
Aug 5, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Comment #40AP says he dosnt know if joey will be i n the team against arsenal, of course he dosnt , Mike Gadaffi hasnt made his mind up yet . it will all depend on if hes a good boy next week, you can just imagine fat slob , and lampsrse sitting in his office with a blackboard going through tactics ha ha