Joey Barton thinks QPR fans disliked him Date: 15th October 2012 at 5:27 pm Written by Isobel Vincent-Smith | Comments (11) QPR bad boy Joey Barton believes that the clubâs fans âdidnât particularly likeâ him. Barton was sent on loan to French club Marseille from QPR in August after boss Mark Hughes made it clear that he was not wanted at the club when the controversial player was banned for 12 games for confrontations with Manchester City players Vincent Kompany, Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez during the last match of the 2011/2012 season. Barton claims that he feels he only went to QPR for the money. He said to the Sunday Times: âI walked into QPR and straightaway thought âthis isnât rightâ. Iâd left a club I loved, Newcastle, and I knew Iâd come for money and think I was always uneasy from that moment on.â He also believes that QPR did not do enough to stand up for him. He said: âThe analogy is, I pulled the baseball bat out through my own stupidity. The FA took it and beat me. I thought QPR would, rightly, chastise me but they picked the bat off the ground and continued the beating. I was no longer the marquee signing. I was a commodity whose stock had dwindled.â He also admitted that his drink problem had returned before the incident in the match against Manchester City. Barton secured the loan move to Marseille after it became clear that relations between him and QPR had reached a low point, when he was ordered to train with players from the academy, Mark Hughes insisted he did not want him, and Barton refused to go out on loan to Sheffield Wednesday. He also attacked the clubâs spending priorities saying: âOn my first captainâs list was âsix plugsâ because the players â at a Premier League club â were plugging up the baths with tissue paper. Tinpot stuff. They were paying people massive money but not spending on the basics.â However, he seems to feel accepted at Marseille. He said: âMy slateâs never going to be clean but I think Iâve found a football club who love me for being a bit of a rogue.â
He was off the sauce for quite a while, too; two years I think. Telling that he had fallen off before season's end.
I'd like to know where the baseball bat was and did it affect his passing. I would like to put the bat back.
That is one ****ed up article isn't it? Keep re-reading it hoping for sanity but not much sign of it. A mercenary who without effort expected love from the paying audience? He's having a laugh. Beware marquee freebies on top dollar wages is what I'd say. Contradictions aplenty going on there. Back on the booze before the season's done and talking baseball bats? Then he's surprised he gets smacked up? He's right about one thing though. If Rangers didn't waste so much money on the likes of him, we'd be able to afford a few plugs.
That is a very bizarre article. Badly constructed and lacks direction. Further investigation tells us why this is. Isobel Vincent-Smith is a 19 year old wanna be tabloid journalist. She is a student who lifts stories from the papers and tries to add a sensationalist slant. You can read more of her offerings at football fan cast. com. But I wouldn't bother.
Thanks Nines. Explains this then. 'Barton claims that he feels he only went to QPR for the money...'. Went for the money, end of. No feels he did or claims to feel about it!
It showed. And you wonder why the fans disliked you? papraphrase: "I can still be a dick, but am more likely to get away with it here." Give it time Joey. They'll soon get pissed off, just like we did.
Personally i wouldnt mind getting my hands on that bat & barton at the same time...could save a lot of people a lot of time !! Absolute To***r..! IMHO...!
I made a tongue in cheek comment that his last Twitter outburst was inadvertently alcohol fuelled (and was lambasted by Doug_QPR). Seems that I might not have been too far from the truth.... http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/165036-Barton-offered-free-transfer?p=3377963#post3377963
That's sealed it. I gave him a huge amount of support, trying to find the positives and regularly putting myself out on a limb in his defence and he then says couldn't love our club and was in it for the money - ****.
I don't think farton was / is the only one here for the money. I wonder who went home after the west ham games and lost sleep, perhaps Mackie
I couldn't say for sure as I've never played football at any level, so I can only rate my own performance in a work context. I am sure there are some that don't give a stuff, but for me, there's still professional pride and reputation whatever the job, footballer or otherwise. Cisse - for example - is probably losing sleep over other matters. Hill - perhaps fearing the chop and dropping a few levels. Green - wondering why he signed. Granero / Cesar - mulling over whether they understood the challenges ahead when they signed. Johnson - worrying whether he'll ever play again in the EPL, or at all.
Dont get too hung up on the old "he's only here for the money"......95% of players are at clubs only for the money. Unless they supported the club as a boy or your are a top 4 club offering trophies and champions league football then a footballer is only there to get paid. You think Park is at QPR as he is always wanted to play for us and couldnt wait to move from world famous Man Utd? Until you are a top competing side, playing in Europe or the likes, younger players use you as a stepping stone and older players use you as a pay day. Sad fact.
Clearly a lot of this is just old news rehashed but even if only a small percentage is true it really does underline what a cock up it was by Warnock in bringing him to our club. And to all of you 606ers who spent last season defending both Barton himself and Warnock's decision to continually play him even when it was clear he was a liability I say you are "a commodity whose stock had dwindled".
You think Hoilett chose us because of ''the project''? No chance. All about the £££ for the majority of players.
