Interview in Daily telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/11092485/Football-philosopher-Joey-Barton-targets-managerial-career-after-football-playing-days-end.html Thoughts?
F*ck me, Joey likes to talk about himself! Still, he's an intelligent guy with an enquiring mind and the article does make good reading in parts, although I think he has a tendency to over-analyse. He does seem to have overcome his demons on the pitch (wait for the red card on Sunday...). Will he make it as a decent manager? May be. There's something sufficiently mercurial about the guy that, now that his life and his approach to life are stable, he might just have that indefinable something that lifts a good manager above the also-rans.
A very good write. I think I am probably a million miles away but fully follow what he is talking. I think hope he has a few more years in him as a player, I really hope with us, as he seems to be improving as a player and leader parallel to his own life.
Were it not for the needless violence in his past, he's the type of bloke I'd usually find entertaining, in small doses. Undoubtedly bright, very opinionated (often thought provokingly so), but its taken him so long to manage himself I can't see him managing a team of other prima donnas. Plus there's only so many times 'I've learned from my mistakes' can be said. He thinks he's playing the media, but he's being played. He was very good against Sunderland though.
He's lived a lot in his short few years in the planet; I'm glad that Steve Black is earning his salary with Barton. He needs to do a little bit of work with SWP, or is that beyond even him? 🐞
I like the honesty. WYSIWYG. He needs a few more years maturing and maybe managing a teenager or two before I can see him as a manager. Whatever you think about him, this one fact speaks for itself; from zero (post Man City) to hero and Captain. That took some serious determination and hard graft.
It is hard for a leopard to change his spots....but he is trying and at this moment succeeding But Barton has now no room for error, a petulant kick tomorrow and we will be on his back again.....he is on a knife edge, but I think he knows it....and now realises he has a lot to lose. But it can be done, do not forget about Beckhma kicking that Argentinian...his name was as muddied as Bartons....but he reinvented himself....and has now become a national treasure. Joey will never do that, I am sure he does not want to.....but give they guy his due at the moment, he is everything we want....long may it continue He was really great against Sunderland, he needs to keep doing that, he is undoubtedly a leader on the field (although I hope Greeno can live with being called boring.....without any back history (other than a few fumbles), he is a leader now off the field. Yes the media are playing him, but he is manipulating them too. The balance is shifting there too. So come on Joey...and please do not do anything tomorrow that makes me come back to this post and have to edit it
In a funny way he reminds me of Redknapp - verbal diarrhoea and an opinion about everything. Maybe he will make a good manager!
This'll be like music to Oddball's ears! “As soon as I arrived in Marseille, I felt 'this is right'. This is just going to work. I still had the ban to serve. Everyone was writing me off, saying ‘it’s the end’. I had a moment of clarity. It gave me the ability to look back at the madness of English football. I’d trained here for 12 years in a certain way. The French were almost laughing at the way I trained, like my life depended on it, pushing myself every day. I realised it’s not about working harder but working smarter. Their whole ethos was in peaking for games, why would you want to flog yourself in training? Living abroad had such a massive impact on me.”
And i thought Clive went on. so Trying to say sorry for being a tosser all his life. Sorry Joey, you may be a reformed character but i dont believe you mate. Thank you for trying your hardest for us for the last 2 seasons, even though you publicly said you werent coming back and didnt want to be here, whilst still picking up your ridiculously over inflated pay cheque Not really bothered if he's with us or not...regardless of performance.Simply dont like the bloke TBH
He's right, you should try a week outside Dublin. Life's not all about Taxis or the UK (or soon to be fUK) for that matter.
