Joey Barton - new club speculation, summer 2015

[dsqpr]

i would keep him on that money

I think that's around double the Championship average West. For me that's still too much for Barton.

Some averages from Nov 2014:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/11231076/Average-Premier-League-salary-rockets-to-2.3m-as-clubs-TV-windfall-goes-straight-into-players-pockets.html

[stanistheman]

Reportedly been offered £20k a week.Worth keeping for that compared to the £70k he was allegedly on?

My thoughts exactly. He has played two seasons at this level and been promoted twice. QPR should have offered him a 20k pw deal too.

[Alanwycombe]

Hope it (or he) doesn't come back to bite us ....

I still quite rate Barton and for the right wages I would have kept him... How many of our current side showed the passion he did (albeit sometimes misguided) ...

I think he had actually calmed down considerably and would have been an asset to us in the championship..

Other than clint - not many others of that Ilk

And his replacement is ?????

My feelings too. If he's going to play in the Championship I'd rather it was for us. One of the fittest players we had and you need 90 mins out of the workers. Criminal sending off at Hull though.

[Tarbie]

If we are trying to bring in a new ethos/discipline etc he has to go, he done ok on the pitch but represented everything that is/was wrong down at Rangers. Big money,lack of respect shown at times,the circus that surrounds him on social media.
I can't see him playing for 20k at Leeds

Agree with all of that!

[West Acton]

I think that's around double the Championship average West. For me that's still too much for Barton.

Some averages from Nov 2014:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...s-pockets.html

I saw article last time we were in div that 20k was going rate

[Kevin Mcleod]

People dont want Barton, hes not good enough, same with tom carroll. Is messi and ronaldo coming to the bush and i aint heard or something?

[kron-1664]

barton was no clint but he was no bosingwa, traore , tarbs either.

He done a good job for us in his own peculiar way so i cant understand why people dislike him so much.

[KuPR]

barton was no clint but he was no bosingwa, traore , tarbs either.

He done a good job for us in his own peculiar way so i cant understand why people dislike him so much.

You seriously don't know why people don't like Barton?

[Kevin Mcleod]

You seriously don't know why people don't like Barton?

I know hes mouthy, but so what. And yeah he got sent off this season, but so did the chief and nobody berates him like they do barton.

[kron-1664]

You seriously don't know why people don't like Barton?

I could not care less what he does off the field TBH, on the field he has been OK, not great but not rubbish either.

[KuPR]

I could not care less what he does off the field TBH, on the field he has been OK, not great but not rubbish either.

Fair enough, but it's surely not too much of a stretch of the imagination to see that some do, and coupled with his moments of idiocy on the pitch, that may be the reason we don't like him.

[KuPR]

I know hes mouthy, but so what. And yeah he got sent off this season, but so did the chief and nobody berates him like they do barton.

If he was just mouthy, I'd have less of a problem with him tbf.

[dsqpr]

I saw article last time we were in div that 20k was going rate

For us quite possibly although in our case it sounds much too low!

This is from the article (it is for 2013-14 season):

AVERAGE SALARIES IN WORLD LEAGUES
Source: Daily Mail

1. English Premier League: £2.2m

2. Germany: £1.5m

3. Italy: £1.3m

4. Spain: £1.2m

5. France: £1m

6. Russia: 0.9m

7. Brazil 0.6m

8. English Championship: 0.5m

[jmelanie]

I am surprised that we let him go, without discussing what he would be prepared to accept as wages. Joey knew he wasn't going to be offered the same contract, but it does not seem that this was even discussed.

[Shepherds Mush]

People dont want Barton, hes not good enough, same with tom carroll. Is messi and ronaldo coming to the bush and i aint heard or something?

Barton I would have kept on lower terms but Tom Carroll wasnt a great success first time was he?