Stoke and Barton

[LoftusRoadLad]

"barton is a wind up merchant himself,remember him taking corners at the boothen end last season and putting the ball 8 inches outside the lines???? every f***er near that corner went bonkers and he was pissing himself laughing"

http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Potters&action=display&thread=178889

[qpr]

On Barton - "QPR fans arent raving about him so far, and for some reason people began to wildly overestimate him once he was linked with us. He's an average Prem player and not a patch on Palacios."

1 i'm raving about him, he didn't start great but I love watching him everyweek now a days and better then Palacios? Please ... Even on a Tottenham forum I read yesterday (When Barton was told he could leave for free and every club in the Prem spoke about him) were saying he's better then Jenas, Palacios etc

[LoftusRoadLad]

those potties are so jealous of us having Joey.....poor sods

[QPR_NW10]

On Barton - "QPR fans arent raving about him so far, and for some reason people began to wildly overestimate him once he was linked with us. He's an average Prem player and not a patch on Palacios."

read that and was shocked. what qpr fans have they been speaking to?!

[kron-1664]

hes been good, wouldnt say spectacular. would rather him than palacios though.

[BennyBoyRs]

Palacios was good at Wigan. He's been pony since.

[Del]

On Barton - "QPR fans arent raving about him so far, and for some reason people began to wildly overestimate him once he was linked with us. He's an average Prem player and not a patch on Palacios."

Well they would say that given that they spunked £8m on him instead of £0 we paid for Barton.... Hmmm yes he must be a better player.........

Add to that £10m for Crouch and £4m for Jerome.....

Stoke have done well for a few years sustaining prem football, but they fell into the trap in the summer of being naive and thinking spending lots of money was the be all and end all, hence fans getting elated becasue they'd spent £22m on 3 players, not necessarilly concerned if they were all way past their best and ridiculously overpriced.....

I said at the time I would rather our batch of Barton, Bothroyd and DJ in like for like positions for the £1.25m we paid and keep the other £20.75m in the bank thanks.

[LoftusRoadLad]

Spot on Del !

[Yousef]

He is better as central midielder.

[qprbrisbanedivision]

Well they would say that given that they spunked £8m on him instead of £0 we paid for Barton.... Hmmm yes he must be a better player.........

Add to that £10m for Crouch and £4m for Jerome.....

Stoke have done well for a few years sustaining prem football, but they fell into the trap in the summer of being naive and thinking spending lots of money was the be all and end all, hence fans getting elated becasue they'd spent £22m on 3 players, not necessarilly concerned if they were all way past their best and ridiculously overpriced.....

I said at the time I would rather our batch of Barton, Bothroyd and DJ in like for like positions for the £1.25m we paid and keep the other £20.75m in the bank thanks.

You wouldnt have paid up front for crouch who wioll get you 15 goals a year.....really...who else in our team ( even combined ) will single handedly keep us up..

I'm not a great crouchie fan..I(even though i have played alongside him) but i know a goal scorer when i see / p[lay alongside one....

Not doing to bad as an england player either is he..?

[Ric-Roc]

To be fair have we been RAVING about Barton?

I haven't tbh. He started ok, had a spell where I thought he was very quiet & wasn't putting his stamp on games & recently he's looking more like the Joey Barton of last season. Can't really knock them for that comment but reading that site many of them are expecting an easy 3 points so that's great. Let's go there & do the business.

Also Palacios? Purleaseeee

[Del]

You wouldnt have paid up front for crouch who wioll get you 15 goals a year.....really...who else in our team ( even combined ) will single handedly keep us up..

I'm not a great crouchie fan..I(even though i have played alongside him) but i know a goal scorer when i see / p[lay alongside one....

Not doing to bad as an england player either is he..?

You're delluded. He will not get 15 goals this season, or any season for Stoke imo. For Spurs he only got 12 in 73 appearances, that's 1 in 6 games, or 6 a season.

In his last year at Portsmouth he got 11, and before that he averaged less than 10 a year at Liverpool.

People get carried away with his England record. Yes it is very good, but most of his goals have been in pointless friendlies or against very weak teams. Many are the equivelent of a prem side playing a league 2 team or in some case worse. Oh, and he's not an Englend player anymore by the way. Can't remember when he was last in a squad, and can't see that changing now he's at Stoke.

So no, i would not have wanted to pay anything significant for Crouch and glad we didn't. Oh and you say who in our squad would get as many, well HH has more goals with 3, Bothroyd has the same with 2. Crouch only has 2 goals in 8 games, which on average is 1 in 4, or 9.5 a season.... so again nowhere near this guaranteed 15 goals a season you and others suggest.

[CheshireHoopJunior]

Stupid clayheads, Barton is much better than Palacios!