Lad I work with is sadly a mag. He's just had a text that Barton has been released? No! Not from prison - from them up the road. x
officials met Joey Barton this morning and told him he can leave on a free transfer. Club statement to follow.
It's all over twitter at the minute. As much as I hate twitter, I can see this being true. It's just the sort of thing that would happen to us! Maybe Sunderland will snap him up.
A Love Supreme just tweeted ... Joey Barton to be released? Good ol' Mike Ashley. First Nolan, now Barton. Surely Jose Enrique to follow. Bring on August 20.
Opening up a can of worms there mate ... I'd have him in the SAFC midfield straight away but I know 1000's wouldn't!
I'll bet Ashley tried to sell him, but Barton has said he won't go because he doesn't want to take a pay cut. Ashley will have said he'll stick him in the reserves if he doesn't go and Barton has said if you do that I'll slag you off to the press. Ashley has had his bluff called and let Barton go now and payed up his contract. Barton has played a blinder and Ashley looks like a ****. Brilliant stuff.
Yeah I reckon so. We really need some of the bigger names to come out and try and keep this team together now.