I see that Joey 'arsewipe' Barton still loves seeing his name in the papers, this time sticking up for his mate Joe Hart Why do players think they are untouchable and should never be dropped regardless of piss poor performances. I'm sure Pep Guardiola will listen intently to what Joey has to say and completely rethink his footballing strategy Barcelona 'B' Tercera División champions: 2007–08 Barcelona La Liga champions (3): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 Champions League winners (2): 2008–09, 2010–11 Copa del Rey winners (2): 2008–09, 2011–12 FIFA Club World Cup winners (2): 2009, 2011 European Super Cup winners (2): 2009, 2011 Spanish Supercopa winners (3): 2009, 2010, 2011 Bayern Munich Bundesliga champions (2): 2013–14, 2014–15 DFB-Pokal winners (1): 2013–14 UEFA Super Cup winners (1): 2013 FIFA Club World Cup winners (1): 2013 Let the managers manage Joey... And you prepare yourself for important games vs Motherwell & Kilmarnock !!! Dick !! 'DISGUSTING!' Listen as Joey Barton hits out at Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's treatment of Joe Hart Joey Barton has blasted Manchester City and Pep Guardiola’s treatment of Joe Hart as ‘disgusting'. Hart has been left out of City's first two games under new manager Guardiola with the Spaniard having already seemingly made up his mind to bring in a new goalkeeper. His Etihad exile has stunned his former teammate Barton, who insists the 29-year-old England number one deserves to be shown more respect given the outstanding decade-long service he has given the club. The Rangers midfielder, who made 130 appearances for City between 2002 and 2007, told talkSPORT: "It is not the club I left. "The club I left and watch now are two totally different organisations. The club I played for wouldn't have treated a player that has been a servant for as long as Joe has in the manner that it has. It is disgusting. "He is a full international, somebody who, probably before City took the money, could have gone on to bigger and better things himself but stayed and wanted to be at City. "I don't see what he has done wrong to be treated the way he has. His attitude isn't terrible. I don't like this. "It is common human decency, regardless of how good a coach you are. Why treat him like that?" Guardiola is understood to harbour doubts about Hart's ability with the ball at his feet and looks to have earmarked Barcelona's Claudio Bravo as his new first-choice goalkeeper, with reports that a £21m deal is imminent. But Barton believes Hart deserves to be given a chance under the ex-Barca boss, and cannot understand why he is behind Willy Caballero in the pecking order. "I've watched Caballero and are you telling me Caballero is better with his feet than Joe Hart? I haven't seen it," he continued. "Why not let him fight for his place and then if he is not good enough say: 'I have given him an opportunity'. That's what every manager should do, give everyone an opportunity."
He's right though, City are treating him like ****, just like United are treating Basti like ****. If we're guilty of it then so are they, if Jose is guilty of it then so is Pep. I wonder how Hart's team mates feel about all of this?
Both Jose and Pep are the managers and have the prestige to make the big calls. Hart has been awful the last few months I don't blame Pep for dropping him I would too.
I would take his wage for a couple of weeks in return for getting treated like shoite. Pep owes Hart nothing, and his loyalty is to Man City as a club
Don't quite know what it is about Hart but I've got a serious dislike for him. Probably the way he goes on in the tunnel before games and the fact he chucked 2 goals in at the Euros.
Sorry mate but JB is right here. I heard his interview yesterday on TS and agreed with it wholeheartedly. Pep is probably right to drop him however the way it was done was awful.
Dont know the ins and outs of Harts situation in order to comment on that. All I know is that he has been dropped. Its that fact that Joey Barton has the nerve to talk about respect and comment on how best to treat a fellow professional. Thats what gets many people riled up.
I'm not sure how dropping Hart means he's being treated like ****. If he's being completely blanked and made to train on his own then yeah but if he's been performing poorly, which he has, then being dropped is completely normal.
Thats what I thought. I assumed, judging by peoples reactions to him being dropped, was that he was also being forced to clean the crusty **** from the toilet with his only toothbrush.
Aye and if that's the case then he'd have every right to be peeved. Assuming it isn't though for the sake of argument, anyone with eyes can see Hart had a shocking Euro's and had been in poor form for some time before that. Guardiola has eyes. It makes perfect sense to me to put Caballero in as a safe pair of hands and if Hart really is good enough then he'll earn his place in the team regardless of who is brought in. If he isn't good enough and I don't think he is, then he's essentially been found out and it's time for him to move to a team more on his level.
Hart's been ****e for a while. He costs points. There's loads of better keepers out there. Does Barton expect Man Citih to try and build a super team but keep the keeper in just because Joey ****ing Barton thinks you can't drop a deteriorating England international. It's exactly the sort of attitude which makes England fail. Pandering to the names instead of performances. I'm surprised it's taken so long for a manager to drop him if anything.
Maybe Pep watched his performances in the Euros ??? ALL top managers have to make big calls, if a player disagrees he responds by showing how great he is in training. No player anywhere in the world should be immune from being dropped. The 'basti' one is a strange one... To not make the 'squad' is a bit of a piss take like!
Hart is as vulnerable as any keeper to making mistakes. What I find puzzling is that PG wants to replace an international keeper and a good club servant with a sweeper keeper which is something I am sure Hart could be coached in if needed. It may be all very well to claim let the manager manage, but when that attitude costs a club money to replace a more than adequate player then there maybe something in the manager's attitude that is inadequate.
the man's a proper ****. see the way he went on last season when defoe got the better of otamendi (or some other ****) - he was right up in the refs face for a good few minutes. if it had been the other way 'round vito would have been booked, twice. hart thinks he's better than he is. he was signed for £300k from ****ing shrewsbury the daft twat. faced no competition for england jersey until last couple of years, gets a shampoo commercial and thinks he's a god. pellegrini justifiably dropped him last season. i dont think guardiola is going to take the risk of any dropped points by getting rid. hope he calls him a **** on his way out the door too.
