Is Joey Barton going to be a Villa player by midnight?
Monday, 01 September 08, 06:44 PM · Comments (113)
The bible of honesty, the Daily Mirror, are reporting that us and one unnamed club are trying to sign Newcastle troublemaker Joey Barton.
It's a bit late in the day and that smacks to me of something that may contain a bit of truth. Although if you read the article there are no sources and not much information behind it.
Joey is facing a possible 12 month ban when he has his FA hearing on Friday and with that in mind I'm not sure he's worth touching with a bargepole.
He's a talented footballer and there's no doubt about that, but his attitude could do with a bit of work - or is that a lot of work. Although if anyone is going to sort him out, MON is one of the best.
I think this signing - if it happens - would divide a number of fans. On the one hand he's quality attacking player, on the other he's an obnoxious bully.
Everybody deserves a second chance, although if I'm right this could well be his third. Anyway, I think if the other club are Everton - as reported for some time - then he is more likely to go back home then come to the Midlands.
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for the love of god no
Just no.
No
Let him go back to prison or Everton. He's a t**t and a thug.Not the type of player or person we need.
hes finished in top flight league, as you say the f a are going to throw the book at him, opposing supporters will give him stick wherever he plays and i dont think he is that good to be given another chance.
i want del la red please mon.
MON has shown he is a man of morals in the past. This has held us back in a way as signing top players these days involves unscrupulous agents, third party payments and back handed payments. It it the wa
lol unlucky
No no no. He's had plenty of chances and screwed them all up, he shouldn't be playing for any club.
Christ, no....
Sorry, cat walked on keyboard!!!! Anyway, I was waffling. Basically MON has too many morals and too much common sense to consider signing a player like this.
i dont get it. everybodys like hes a thug, but most of the people saying this are proberbly aswel...
Reply to toontoon:
weve signed the only toon midfielder we want maybe owen not nutcase..
toon toon we took what we wanted from you, you can have your criminals and misfits which suits your poxy side, so i'd save your comments to the end of the season because you'll be lucky to finish top 10 with your lot.
MON would be a madman to sign him which, he's not even a good player just a fucking nutcase like his mates Noel and Liam - let him rot with the fat Geordies and the rest of their pork pie side.
no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Surely cant be true. Wudnt want the guy in the same county as me, the guy is pure scum
Reply to clevelandvillian1:
Owen, Arshavin, Ashton, De La Red anyone. What a great days work from MON that would be, and we'd even loan Gabby out to the Blue Noses for a year
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Three in the bag! - Owen was never even a consideration. Apparently some young defender from Notts County too (but i don't believe the source), but the other three are in.
I think it's time for some champagne and all those MON doubters to come out and apologise.
Three cheers for Lerner!!!
What a ton of c**p. The Mirror are probably too busy trying to suck Gordon Browns knob to write a correct article....obvious isn't it Barton....because we have a serious lack of centre mid's
Loons
Before scrolling down here I thought there might be some positives. But alas, no.
Barton is both a thug and arguably, a tw*t. But he is also a talented footballer and a completely messed up person.
I am not claiming to be as messed up in the head through whatever means, as Barton but I have still transgressed many times and occaisionally hurt some people. Not physically, but I've been a bit nasty on occasion.
One day I had a little girl who is now 6 and a bit. Since then, my life has been straight, narrow, successful and starting look pointful too.
I am not trying to claim that a baby will cure him or even that he deserves the chance but I don't think that he is an inherently 'evil' person and if someone is willing to try and help someone like this to change it all then the good that will come from it ultimately is far greater than anything that will arise from shunning someone into the wilderness.
MoN may have issues with some things but as a person I reckon he has presence and an ability to influence someone like Barton for the greater good.
So, Yes he is bad but people need to look at how they treat people like this and not just bolt down the tabloid route of demonising and crucifying without recourse. I dare say there's a lot of folk on here who have got away with worse.
UTV.
Howay lads, Joeys no worse trouble on the pitch than anybody else, its just off the pitch you have to watch him.
dont believe manofpi he's been spreading **** all day
God, NO NO NO If this is true then MON has lost his head!
dont believe it for one moment!! MON's building a team! bartons no team player!!!
manofpi ..your a wind up.
funny though
I don't believe it. I think they have put MON's history of giving players a second chance together with a dose of lazy journalism.
MON signs nice blokes who want to work hard. I often note how the majority of our players seem to have a smile on their face before a match. Why shake the boat with a player like Barton?
Can't see it happening. Let's get Ashton in!
according to ssn ashton deal is 'unlikely' and kevin doyle deal is looking a 'strong possobility'
Probably the most counter productive signing villa could make? :s
Cant see it happening.
Please please please please take him!!! I'll drive him to Villa Park and even tuck him in as long as he goes. However you Villa lot are alright, I'd love to see tottenham take him! that would make my deadline day complete!
Cheers, hell of a team MON is building there, good luck chaps.
Would never pay to see villa while this horible little thug was at B6 if this happend .
Of course its pure dross
You can have Milner for 12m. He'd probably have the cleanest pair of kicks in the league, he spends enough time with his head down looking at them, we he does manage to look up his delivery is usually ordinary. Good business by the toon.
You can take Barton, as with Milner. Milner is your biggest summer signing. Considering you have money available thats pretty poor. He's ok, but doesnt set the world alight. £12m is a joke and when you consider he only had 2 asists last year (emre played about 10 times and got 4) the facts speak for themselves. He's not gonna take you to the next level, and before you all jump down my throat i'm certainly not suggesting we are gonna do any better.
Milner and Barton - money well spent : ) Come on Villa!!!!!
KK must be laughing his k*ob off
Absolutely Not!!!! The only time you'll see Barton wearing a shirt that bears the 'Acorns' logo is while he's on community service, LITTLE SCUMBAG.
no chance mon is not stupid
at least i dont think he is
I know the man hasn't exactly covered himself in glorey over the last few years but what makes him such a "scumbag"???
I remember looking at Joey Barton a couple of seasons ago and wishing we would make a bid for him.He is a very gifted footballer and WOULD add quality and depth to our squad.He never entered my head as a possible signing throughout the summer, but if he escaped a ban and had the right people around him, he could be a real bargain for us.
Remember a couple of months ago the response to being linked with Steed Malbranque?The vast majority of people didn't want him but i for one would definitely take him now.As long as Joey Barton could nuckle down and work hard he could be an asset to a lot of clubs in the top 10.
Never the less, this storey is nothing more than a storey.
it looks like pompy are the other team so let harry have him..
geordie gobs..different story couple of weeks ago before we signed milner..sour grapes me thinks.
you forget we new what we were getting remember.(a years loan let us see all we needed to see)
Ah you have got to love the barcodes - ye boys just keep paying Owen 120K a week to support you from the stands while your peasant owner downs a beer
Classy!
Reply to RockStedy:
Plus hes slow
thought i might add that
If there's one player I don't want at Villa Park, it's Barton. Still, MON's clearly no idiot, I don't see this happening, not one bit.
No, no, no and no.
I'm sorry - I try to see any shred of positivy in every move our club makes. I can see some in the potential transfer of Doyle, I could see it in Routledge and even Oyvind Leonhardsen. But this is nothing but a terrible, terrible idea.
I don't care if the lad is talented, not one bit. He is nothing but trouble and we shouldn't let him anywhere near our football club. Nothing good can come of it.
Besides, why would we want him? Barry, Sidwell, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Salifou and Osbourne all play in the same position. Makes no sense.
My money is on Everton or Blackburn, they're both pretty desperate.
Reply to J Barton:
Funny how Milner was you're best player a short time ago and eulogised by "King Kev" now yo're glad to see the back of him LOL.As for Barton he is a piece of excrement on the sole of my shoe and is not wanted by any right minded football supporter.
Find it sad to see the Macams, sorry Geordies (all sound the same) now slagging Milner off. He's a young lad who is not the finished article and yes it is a lot of money but he will really improve in a good team.
Talk of spending big on wingers who don't deliver.......how is Duff?! A sad indictment that on transfer deadline day you are on the Villa blog, not your own.
rdavilla - are you kidding me? This bloke beat his teammate senseless, shoved a lit cigar in the eye of a youth team player and goes out and gets drunk so he can start fights on people in the street. The man is a scumbag.
GO GET HIM MARTIN,A BARGAIN AT 5MILLION!!!>
Reply to rdavilla_:
Did you really just ask "what makes [Barton] such a scumbag"?
all those people who thought spurs were doing well in the transfer market. look at this. its HILARIOUS. LINK
Reply to vivavilla86:
I agree totally but id love to see him try and put a cigar in Carews eye
He'd be in hospital for 6 mths not jail.
vivavilla,
Team mates fall out all the time.There are a lot of ego's in modern day football and people have their differences from time to time, remember Freddie Ljungberg and Olof Mellberg at the 2002 world cup?
I'm not even saying this is acceptable behaviour.I'm saying if he could keep himself out the front pages of the papers, and make a few appearences in the back pages, i could live with him playing for Aston Villa.But thats my oppinion.
Reply to rdavilla_:
Team mates don't beat the living crap out of each other or use lit cigars as weapons on each other. Ever. The lad's history is riddled with similar cases, he's nothing but a common thug.
Sorry but as far as I'm concerned he's a lost cause.
Really hope this is not true, what kind of example would he be to our young players and fans.
No No No No, he is a big bully, we dont need him, he will divide the dressing room as well as the fans
All i'm saying is that if it did come true, which i don't think it will, and he was our player in the morning, then as an Aston Villa fan i would get behind him, and HOPE to see him as the gifted footballer rather than the Joey Barton that has made the headlines in the past.
Personally, i wouldn't make a bid for him but if MON bought him i'd give him a chance.
damian.....write another blog i cant read about this little twerp anymore.
i want to read about how del la red is so happy to have signed for a great club like villa.
just bin listenig to talk sport stan collymore
were in for heskey
joey barton is scum if he signed for us i would run onto the pitch and chin him. he has no right to play football he should be in prison. SCUM
heskey is in for talks i am afraid!
Sci-fi: MON and Lerner have far too much common sense to sign that monkey-faced waster.
Next rumour.
Between Heskey and Doyle I'll have the former.
Bit like having to choose between a turd sandwich and a douche, though.
dont believe it for one moment!! MON's building a team! bartons no team player!!!villa complete signings of lee hughes joey barton and duncan ferguson!!! also unveil SWAG as next years shirt sponsors!!! COME ON MON!!!!!
confirmed by stan on talk heskey at villa for talks 10mil
nooooooooo Barton and heskey. wake up from this horrible nightmare. i'd rather wake up and realise i have school in the morning rather than wake up and find we've bought heskey and barton. oh, sh*t ive got school anyway tomorow. nooooooooooooo.
but spurs also interested not much chance when mon involved
Why on earth would be buy Heskey? It makes no sense, particulary for 10 million.
if we buy him i am sending my season ticket back
get tuned in joey were also in for stan has contacts at the villa
Heskey for 10 million sounds so dumb that I refuse to believe it's true.
just heard that man city are buying everyone so they may still sign heskey.
Mark hughes apparently has just asked the board to buy a roque santa cruz. the asian buyers thought it is a good idea so will finish the deal............................................................
the team set sail for lapland tomorrow on a ship called the titanic. this rumour is absolutley true! joey bartons parole officer who also looks after dabo told me
anyone else with any true rumours like mine?
Reply to Fitzy_7:
Why would MON bother with the hassle....? Keegan has backed him to stay. I say, let him. For my money I would raid Newcastle for Alan Smith. Then travel to London and pick-up Ashton. A quick call to Spain for De La Red and finally dive in and get Pennant. We could also chase a few other players and attempt to persuade them to move. Mainly, Joe Ledley, Joe Lewis (GK), Tom Huddlestone, Frazer Campbell, Emile Heskey, Nicklas Bendtner, Jay Simpson, Nicky Hunt, Matthew Taylor, Florent Malouda, Ched Evans, John O'Shea, Darren Fletcher, Gary O'Niel, Niki Kranjcar, Grant Leadbitter, Michael Dawson, Jamie O'Hara, James Morrison, Scott Parker, Matthew Upson, Mark Noble, Ryan Taylor, Lee Cattermole!, Tomasz Cywka, Michael Spillane (Norwich)
Most are good players, some with good potential. Some may ask what ive been taking..nothing. Just thinking!
Reply to Dave George:
good point but if these players haven't got an england under 21 cap or previously played for mon then you can cross them off the list. how many does that leave that we can sign?
oh just so you guys know nakamura is in talks with everton and another un named club
Reply to Fitzy_7:
Why would MON bother with the hassle....? Keegan has backed him to stay. I say, let him. For my money I would raid Newcastle for Alan Smith. Then travel to London and pick-up Ashton. A quick call to Spain for De La Red and finally dive in and get Pennant. We could also chase a few other players and attempt to persuade them to move. Mainly, Joe Ledley, Joe Lewis (GK), Tom Huddlestone, Frazer Campbell, Emile Heskey, Nicklas Bendtner, Jay Simpson, Nicky Hunt, Matthew Taylor, Florent Malouda, Ched Evans, John O'Shea, Darren Fletcher, Gary O'Niel, Niki Kranjcar, Grant Leadbitter, Michael Dawson, Jamie O'Hara, James Morrison, Scott Parker, Matthew Upson, Mark Noble, Ryan Taylor, Lee Cattermole!, Tomasz Cywka, Michael Spillane (Norwich)
Most are good players, some with good potential. Some may ask what ive been taking..nothing. Just thinking!
is it just me being a space cadet or would frazier campbell fit just right in our quick paced team??? same money as doyle!!! he young, quick, english seems to fit MONs criteria?????
tonky no no no.
fraizer campbell is in talks with hull and west ham. 7.5mn. the west ham could be the player they need before they let ashton go. West ham won't sell until a replcement is found
Reply to rob_h:
hull have just signed a rangers forward
Reply to _AP68_:
west ham it is then. finger crossed
for the love of god no
cousin is his name had a mental block
i was thinking ashton and campbell!!!!! greedy space cadet perhaps?????? im losing patience!!!!
Reply to _AP68_:
ask paul you don't expect us to believe the old' my cousin has signed for hull rumour do you' lol
emile heskey being linked now
shit!!!! the heskey to villa rumours just been on ssn!!!
Reply to rob_h:
it would be a better link than some of the sh*t weve been linked with lol.
heskey+mon = signed nononoonononono
Garath Barry bid from City anyone heard?
Barton is going to Stoke City !!!!!
it aint johnson and he aint english. do you know damian?
sorry guys i told you the heskey thing was coming! oh well
Reply to Custardpants:
would he honestly leave for city when he can leave in jan and hold hands with stevey thieving gerrard???
barry to city is bull. guaranteed!
Reply to rob_h:
agree with that
the barry thing has been generated by man city pr to stop us pestering them for one of their players it is bull
damian over to you?????
heskey to spurs again
Reply to _AP68_:
not wat im hearing medical taking place at BH
ssn just confirmed we are in for heskey but they think we have other business to do first
a medical is taking place at bh but no deal can be concluded yet. this is going to be an 11:59 job.
bollox - heskey an barton. its crap. as for milner, we will make him a class player. obv he was not gonna improve at newcastle, u dont get better by playin for a third rate team. villa will make him shine. silly bitches
Reply to pazzler:
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wat
Reply to rob_h:
this cant happen shouldt happen please god dont let it happen.
i know we all hear bull rumours but the same dude that said heskey and i put it on here well before ssn released it, so i am going to trust him. he said forget ashton its gonna be too late. but mon has had an offer agreed in principle for ................. hang on a sec
calm down joey barton is pompey not us
Reply to GonzoAvfc:
And award for the most eloquent and helpful post of the day goes to....
guys is it just me or damain is very quiet doz he know somthing that he cant say or is he just watching us
Reply to Ugly_Betty:
betty im with you
Sky say Barton has been bid for by a top 10 club, sure hope it's pompey. Either that or they are signing him up to the next series of shameless.........
he is a harry redkanpp signing to be fair. he will do ok and they will all call him harry houdini. even tho his wage bill is the same as arsenal's
Reply to rob_h:
gabbys three girls to be cheer leaders for us for the rest of the season!!!!
guys is it me or is damian very quite 2nite
Damian has hired a motorbike and
sidecar and gone to fetch de la Red from Madrid and will then scoot back, Paul Newman style to be put in the OleOle cooler, a hero.
Ugly_Betty, I would love you to be right. Unfortunately, while we still have Barry there is not likely to be de la Red I don't think...
HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barton would be a fantastic and morale boosting signing to the team. He will lead by example and bleed claret and blue as he beats a small child with the studs of his boots.
Sorry, cat walked on my keyboard...