London Standard - "I won't play with Barton, says Taarabt"

[Will M]

you watch the BBC at Christmas? plenty of fairies on there

The BBC has fairies on it all year round tbf. MOTD usually has a ****ton :XD:

[vblockranger]

The BBC has fairies on it all year round tbf. MOTD usually has a ****ton :XD:

[Will M]

Star on mine.

But I seem to recall from the bible..

Luke 1:26 ¶ And in the sixth month the fairy Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, "oooh, get you, wearing that smock in beige at this time of year. Soo last season. I'd wouldn't be caught dead in open toed sandals in a manger"

Brilliant lol

[Sotonsuperhoop]

Reading some of the sh* t people are writing in Bartons defence and in critism of Adel I wonder what you lot would have made of our Stan? I expect most on here are too young to have watched him live.

Adel reminds me of Stan a lot. Some games not really involved/couldn't be bothered and then a 30 second moment of genius that won a game. People loved Stan, and still do, yet he wasn't always at the top of his game or a 'club' man, often not turning up for training, being in the betting shop at 2.50pm on a Sat, etc etc but when Adel behaves like this everyone wants rid of him.

Look at any genius in life, van gough, mozart, warhol,etc etc they are all/were excentric characters who don't always fit in. Stan, Adel very similar in some respects to these. To get genius you sometimes have to compromise, so lets get behind Adel and get Joey out.

[vblockranger]

Reading some of the sh* t people are writing in Bartons defence and in critism of Adel I wonder what you lot would have made of our Stan? I expect most on here are too young to have watched him live.

Adel reminds me of Stan a lot. Some games not really involved/couldn't be bothered and then a 30 second moment of genius that won a game. People loved Stan, and still do, yet he wasn't always at the top of his game or a 'club' man, often not turning up for training, being in the betting shop at 2.50pm on a Sat, etc etc but when Adel behaves like this everyone wants rid of him.

Look at any genius in life, van gough, mozart, warhol,etc etc they are all/were excentric characters who don't always fit in. Stan, Adel very similar in some respects to these. To get genius you sometimes have to compromise, so lets get behind Adel and get Joey out.

lol genius? he's not even best player in the team let alone genius enough to have an impact in the prem. Comparing Taarabt to Stan is hilarious
Adel is a good player and can be great on his day. Just his attitude stinks.

[JonDoeman]

Reading some of the sh* t people are writing in Bartons defence and in critism of Adel I wonder what you lot would have made of our Stan? I expect most on here are too young to have watched him live.

Adel reminds me of Stan a lot. Some games not really involved/couldn't be bothered and then a 30 second moment of genius that won a game. People loved Stan, and still do, yet he wasn't always at the top of his game or a 'club' man, often not turning up for training, being in the betting shop at 2.50pm on a Sat, etc etc but when Adel behaves like this everyone wants rid of him.

Look at any genius in life, van gough, mozart, warhol,etc etc they are all/were excentric characters who don't always fit in. Stan, Adel very similar in some respects to these. To get genius you sometimes have to compromise, so lets get behind Adel and get Joey out.

Good post mate, there's some FcKing idiots on this board, 14 & counting...............!

[BUSHRANGER1982]

If push came to shove, I would much rather prefer Adel stayed at Loftus Rd.
But, if there is a way whereby both Joey, and Adel, can stay at Loftus Rd and both play in the same team at some point, that would be great.

[Loneranger80]

I agree Bush... if a choice had to be made... Barton would be my player to leave...

[SuperHoopNik]

Reading some of the sh* t people are writing in Bartons defence and in critism of Adel I wonder what you lot would have made of our Stan? I expect most on here are too young to have watched him live.

Adel reminds me of Stan a lot. Some games not really involved/couldn't be bothered and then a 30 second moment of genius that won a game. People loved Stan, and still do, yet he wasn't always at the top of his game or a 'club' man, often not turning up for training, being in the betting shop at 2.50pm on a Sat, etc etc but when Adel behaves like this everyone wants rid of him.

Look at any genius in life, van gough, mozart, warhol,etc etc they are all/were excentric characters who don't always fit in. Stan, Adel very similar in some respects to these. To get genius you sometimes have to compromise, so lets get behind Adel and get Joey out.

I agree 100%, Adel sometimes is invisible in matches, but other times he's always on the ball actually trying to do something. He's amazing on his day, he just needs to learn to play like that Every single game. He's our most talented play imo and we need to keep him. We can find another Joey Barton elsewhere, there are many midfielders that play like him if not better. But there's no other player like Adel!

[w12dave]

keep Taarabt

Joey is not irreplaceable

[stainrodisalegend]

IF Adel felt that Barton was deliberately trying to break his leg in training, I can understand why he might not want to play with him. Plenty of other players have said much the same about Barton. I don't think Adel is standing over Mark Hughes telling him who to pick, but if he said "you know what, if Barton is still running the show next season I think I'll be looking for another club" then its hardly the worst thing a modern footballer has done. Compared to say, well, stubbing a cigar out in the eye of a lad from the youth team.

Adel was different from all the other players in the Championship winning side. Speroni instead of Kenny and I think we would have finished in almost exactly the same place. Ambrose instead of Adel, we might just have sneaked into the play offs.

[vblockranger]

IF Adel felt that Barton was deliberately trying to break his leg in training, I can understand why he might not want to play with him. Plenty of other players have said much the same about Barton. I don't think Adel is standing over Mark Hughes telling him who to pick, but if he said "you know what, if Barton is still running the show next season I think I'll be looking for another club" then its hardly the worst thing a modern footballer has done. Compared to say, well, stubbing a cigar out in the eye of a lad from the youth team.

Adel was different from all the other players in the Championship winning side. Speroni instead of Kenny and I think we would have finished in almost exactly the same place. Ambrose instead of Adel, we might just have sneaked into the play offs.

agree with the last point as he stood out in the Championship as one of its best players last season. Like i said in another post though if a player comes out and says "i wont play with so and so" then he should be punished by the club and ostracized by the fans ......IF he said it though. You cant have players dictating to the manager and the club which players to buy/pick no matter how good the player is, and he aint THAT good.

[QPRDave]

Luke 1:26 ¶ And in the sixth month the fairy Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, "oooh, get you, wearing that smock in beige at this time of year. Soo last season. I'd wouldn't be caught dead in open toed sandals in a manger"

Brilliant lol

OI that's blasphemy you you blasphemer you!! Your knitting circle wouldn't like it if we were taking the p*ss out of the fella in islam would ya?!!!

[vblockranger]

OI that's blasphemy you you blasphemer you!! Your knitting circle wouldn't like it if we were taking the p*ss out of the fella in islam would ya?!!!

[QPRDave]

Reading some of the sh* t people are writing in Bartons defence and in critism of Adel I wonder what you lot would have made of our Stan? I expect most on here are too young to have watched him live.

Adel reminds me of Stan a lot. Some games not really involved/couldn't be bothered and then a 30 second moment of genius that won a game. People loved Stan, and still do, yet he wasn't always at the top of his game or a 'club' man, often not turning up for training, being in the betting shop at 2.50pm on a Sat, etc etc but when Adel behaves like this everyone wants rid of him.

Look at any genius in life, van gough, mozart, warhol,etc etc they are all/were excentric characters who don't always fit in. Stan, Adel very similar in some respects to these. To get genius you sometimes have to compromise, so lets get behind Adel and get Joey out.

Big difference Stanley was a player that did it consistently not 40mins in a season. Btw stan didn't dictate who he would band wouldn't play with either