I almost didn't post just because it's giving oxygen to the man. Despite the fact that his is a good *championship* footballer, there are several reasons why I think we are well rid: He is a 'big' personality - by which I mean he is all that a small club like ours does not need. I want the headlines to be about our performances, not an attention seeking egomaniac. He is just not as good as he thinks. Corners - didn't beat the first man. Free kicks - scored 1 (that I recall) took hundreds. Passing - always looked for the Hollywood ball... mostly didn't come off. Good engine - there are younger/cheaper options With him in the squad I worry about the influence on the younger players - what if they try to emulate his behaviour? Is he the senior professional we want as a role model? Despite his improved attitude last season, he simply can't be relied on. In a pinch would you trust him to control himself? He is always a red card waiting to happen. Plus he is prepared to chuck **** at us now that he has gone while taking no responsibility for the situation - which makes him even more of a total delusional bellend.
Burnley's Joey Barton on his availability last summer: 'I was a no-brainer if you wanted to get promotion from the Championship' please log in to view this image Burnley stole a march on their Sky Bet Championship promotion rivals when they signed him in the summer. The midfielder, 33, was a free agent following his release from QPR at the end of the previous campaign and was surprised by the lack of offers that came his way. A proposed move to West Ham collapsed before Sean Dyche persuaded him to join him in east Lancashire, and Barton thinks other Championship clubs were foolish not to try and land his signature prior to the start of the campaign. "I am 33, sitting there in the summer, everyone thinks you're done," Barton said. "I probably thought my phone would ring a lot more than it did. Then it did ring, I thought this was going somewhere, then that was gone. "It reiterates how fickle this industry is and how lazy people are. There's a lot of lazy people out there. If you did your due diligence and were smart and a forward-thinking organisation - certainly in the Championship - I was a no-brainer really if you wanted to get promotion. "You see people spending money on players in that position, I am thinking, 'Wow'. But Burnley are obviously smarter than the average bear when it comes to that, you can see that in the recruitment over recent years. "They operate within the means of the football club and they do prove you can get consistently good players if you are just smart and do your research." Read more at http://talksport.com/football/burnl...brainer-if-you-wanted-get#Fl97UeF4JLSp23we.99
Or maybe Joey isn't as good as Joey thinks he is. That's Joey was released. That's why Joey's phone didn't ring constantly.
It takes a special kind of footballing brain to compound giving the ball with running wildly out of position to get it back. Nobody has filled that gap left by Joseph. I read something particularly fitting about Barton a short while ago and I quote "knob!" Might have been a couple of times on this thread thinking about it.
Barton would always make himself available for a pass, he could protect the ball well, and he could pass it forwards. He could also tackle. There is one individual in our current first team who struggles to do any of these things.
...in the world according to Joe, if they get promoted it will be all due to him, if they don't he'll no doubt throw all sorts of **** at his erstwhile teammates, blaming them for their shortcomings. Frankly they are welcome to him - a man desperate to deny any responsibility in any situation unless it is to his advantage. One wonders if he has ever truly accepted any responsibility for any of his *mistakes* in life. Sad.
https://straightouttaloftusroad.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/fk-off-joey/ No sitting on the fence with this reply Personally think he was an overpaid nob, he amuses occasionally (who could forget Monsieur Joe A Bartonne of OM?), frustrates and embarrasses frequently and cost us a truckload of cash. ROI negligible, lesson learned (hopefully) now jog on
