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Joey Barton has claimed his departure from Newcastle was due to a bonus dispute.

 

Barton joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a Twitter rant in which he criticised the club's board.

 

He has subsequently spoken out against the regime of owner Mike Ashley and managing director Derek Llambias and has now gone a step further by alleging he and other big-name players had been forced out of the Tyneside club after refusing to agree to a bonus proposal.

 

Barton told the QPR podcast Open All R's: "Newcastle, as a playing squad, were the only club in Premier League history not to sign a bonus sheet. It was unprecedented.

 

"We refused as a playing staff (to sign) as they tried to railroad the players into signing a bonus sheet.

 

"In their opinion we were paid workforce. They thought we were Sports Direct and we should do what the subordinates at Sports Direct do, forgetting they were dealing with 20-odd egos, probably 10 self-sufficient men in a position to make a number of different judgements.

 

"Myself and the bigger-name players at the time advised the playing staff because we were head of the playing committee not to sign the bonus sheet and that filtered back to boardroom level.

 

"It's no coincidence that I was given away.

 

"It's all about power and control. They are running the football club and it's going really well for them at the minute but that's more a testament to the players and the fans, and also the manager (Alan Pardew). The manager has been different class."

 

Barton also claimed promises made to him by the board were not fulfilled.

 

He said: "They promised a number of different things and delivered on very few of them.

 

"At Newcastle I couldn't take to the pitch and lie to the fans and be a part of it. You are doing it for yourself, the fans and the football club but if you fundamentally despise everything that the owners stand for it is very difficult.

 

"I am a man of principles, I am a very principled individual and for me taking money off fans and taking the p*** out of them is not what I am about. I would rather walk away with my dignity and self-respect intact and I feel I have done that."

 

Barton also dismissed the suggestion he owed the club a degree of loyalty for standing by him when he was sentenced to six months in prison in 2008 after admitting a charge of assault and affray.

 

"A lot of people say to me 'Newcastle paid your wages when I was in jail' but they never," he said. "Not that I wanted to be but I was not paid.

 

Newcastle refused to comment on any of Barton's claims.

 

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/11/11/29/SOCCER_Barton.html&BID=165

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Guest Haris Vuckic

Spot on Wilson.

 

Nobody knows the crack till the Inquest is done.

inquest was today. adjurned till january 30th.

 

Yep so if people can only shut up till then & leave his family in peace  :undecided:

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Many people view suicide as a selfish act HOWEVER Joey fkn Barton who knows the media jump alover what he says on twitter saying this on the day of Gary's death just shows how much of utter attention seeking cunt he really is.

 

I have a real hatred for Joey and this kind of shit really does justify it.

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Barton's reply to 'Leazeslad' who the papers picked up on a quote by aimed at Barton after his comments on Sunday that suicide was selfish

 

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/302917_10150423278879570_741094569_8226014_1892146715_n.jpg

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I think Leazeslad picked up on the timing - which was fair enough. ''on today of all days'' he said.

 

Also someone called Shaun Proud off twitter was in the Mail and the star!

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Joey Barton has claimed his departure from Newcastle was due to a bonus dispute.

 

Barton joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a Twitter rant in which he criticised the club's board.

 

He has subsequently spoken out against the regime of owner Mike Ashley and managing director Derek Llambias and has now gone a step further by alleging he and other big-name players had been forced out of the Tyneside club after refusing to agree to a bonus proposal.

 

Barton told the QPR podcast Open All R's: "Newcastle, as a playing squad, were the only club in Premier League history not to sign a bonus sheet. It was unprecedented.

 

"We refused as a playing staff (to sign) as they tried to railroad the players into signing a bonus sheet.

 

"In their opinion we were paid workforce. They thought we were Sports Direct and we should do what the subordinates at Sports Direct do, forgetting they were dealing with 20-odd egos, probably 10 self-sufficient men in a position to make a number of different judgements.

 

"Myself and the bigger-name players at the time advised the playing staff because we were head of the playing committee not to sign the bonus sheet and that filtered back to boardroom level.

 

"It's no coincidence that I was given away.

 

"It's all about power and control. They are running the football club and it's going really well for them at the minute but that's more a testament to the players and the fans, and also the manager (Alan Pardew). The manager has been different class."

 

Barton also claimed promises made to him by the board were not fulfilled.

 

He said: "They promised a number of different things and delivered on very few of them.

 

"At Newcastle I couldn't take to the pitch and lie to the fans and be a part of it. You are doing it for yourself, the fans and the football club but if you fundamentally despise everything that the owners stand for it is very difficult.

 

"I am a man of principles, I am a very principled individual and for me taking money off fans and taking the p*** out of them is not what I am about. I would rather walk away with my dignity and self-respect intact and I feel I have done that."

 

Barton also dismissed the suggestion he owed the club a degree of loyalty for standing by him when he was sentenced to six months in prison in 2008 after admitting a charge of assault and affray.

 

"A lot of people say to me 'Newcastle paid your wages when I was in jail' but they never," he said. "Not that I wanted to be but I was not paid.

 

Newcastle refused to comment on any of Barton's claims.

 

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/11/11/29/SOCCER_Barton.html&BID=165

 

Interesting.

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That article sums up what a shit of man he is.

 

Pleased he's no longer here. Poison.

 

You must have loved it when we sent him to train with the reserves that week, though?

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That article sums up what a shit of man he is.

 

Pleased he's no longer here. Poison.

 

It does nothing of the sort.

 

I had no problem with us giving up on him, he is disruptive and we are no doubt better off without him. But beyond that he seems to me a decent, principled (if often misguided) bloke with, as he admits himself, a massive ego.

 

Fair play to you, I guess you see something I don't that makes him a 'shit of a man', and I'm sure he can take the disgustingly aggressive stuff thrown at him and other players by the likes of this 'Leazeslad', but I'm still at a loss to understand it.

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Not sure I believe him on the not being paid while in prison thing, given who his agent is for a start.

 

Might also be reading it wrong but aren't his Sports Direct comments a big derogatory towards people who have 'normal' jobs?

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Not sure I believe him on the not being paid while in prison thing, given who his agent is for a start.

 

Might also be reading it wrong but aren't his Sports Direct comments a big derogatory towards people who have 'normal' jobs?

 

No, as far as I know Sports Direct employees have very low standards of payment etc....

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Not sure I believe him on the not being paid while in prison thing, given who his agent is for a start.

 

Might also be reading it wrong but aren't his Sports Direct comments a big derogatory towards people who have 'normal' jobs?

 

No, as far as I know Sports Direct employees have very low standards of payment etc....

 

Again, probably read it wrong but seemed patronising to me. I just find the whole wages thing strange tbh, Marveaux, Ba, Tiote (new contract), Jonas (new contract), Cabaye and Ben Arfa won't be the lowest players in the league. Maybe the board actually have a decent idea of what a player is worth, I wouldn't have given Nolan and Barton the wages over the length of contracts they are on now. Enrique is the only one I would have 'broke the bank' for but I still genuinely believe he left for ambition rather than money.

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I don't get this bit:

 

"Newcastle, as a playing squad, were the only club in Premier League history not to sign a bonus sheet. It was unprecedented.

 

"We refused as a playing staff (to sign) as they tried to railroad the players into signing a bonus sheet.

 

So we were the only club not to have it...and when we tried to get it...Barton recons that's an issue/railroading? So we wanted to be like every other club with regards to this ???

 

Doesn't make sense. What am I missing?

 

Reads to me like the players would not sign because they felt they were being misled in some way on it. And in refusing, they did something nobody else had ever done.

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consistently sounds like Barton is trying to convince himself he made the right decision leaving

 

and others, for one who is apparently footballer of the people etc.. he is in the media more than Beckham these days.

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