David28 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 If Joey ends his carreer here he'll easily be in the top 5 of my 'all time NUFC favourites'. After half a good season? Yeah, strange isn't it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 If Joey ends his carreer here he'll easily be in the top 5 of my 'all time NUFC favourites'. After half a good season? Yeah, strange isn't it. Very. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weezertron Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 It may be wishful thinking but you would hope this would set an example to the high earners in the squad regarding wages (if he does infact take a paycut). Howay Jose and Colo, sign up at £50k for another 4 years. tbh, Jose has been good, consistent and professional throughout his time here. If anybody deserves a pay rise, it's him and it'd make sense to make him our highest earner. Whey I thought 50k was our new salary cap? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 5 year contract according to the guy who appears on Fan Zone every so often. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 5 year contract according to the guy who appears on Fan Zone every so often. Champion, we should get most of our players tied down long term. Jose Enrique should be next on the list. Even if Barton doesn't stay that long, we won't be a victim of him (or any other player) leaving on a free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Aye, I probably would have gone for a 4+1 contract or something like that. Still, happy with this like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 33 isn't nessisarily 'over the hill' for a centre mid who doesn't realy rely on pace/agilty, he certainly won't have lost his eye for a pass by then. Frank Lampard is about that age now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginola Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Bartons not about pace though, so hopefully, he should be able to carry on playing to a good standard for us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Barton's game is more about passing than pace, so I don't see much of a problem Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Oh no, one people hit 30 they need a wheel chair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Will have to play centrally then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Will have to play centrally then. Ryan Giggs would probably disagree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 As I've said before, Barton's game has nothing to do with pace, he should be fine up until 33-34. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 But he'll be 33 when his contract expires. Let's hope this pays off. Oh no, one people hit 30 they need a wheel chair. Poster in wheelchair alert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 People seem to forget Barton is actualy a centre mid (he wasn't used on the right during his best City days), in the next 5 years our style of play will change and he may well not be needed as a RM like he is now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 People seem to forget Barton is actualy a centre mid (he wasn't used on the right during his best City days), in the next 5 years our style of play will change and he may well not be needed as a RM like he is now. But he's never had one really good game for us in the middle. Even in his previous good run of form under KK, it was on the right. His City days were, what, five years ago? I keep going on about it but it staggers me that anyone could have watched Barton throughout his NUFC career and still think he might be better off centrally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Based on what we've all seen over the last 3 months, I find it staggering that so many on here still put Barton in the middle in their ideal line-up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VegasToon Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Based on what we've all seen over the last 3 months, I find it staggering that so many on here still put Barton in the middle in their ideal line-up. I agree. Barton is a must on the right as of this point. It might change though in a couple of years. I am glad it is a 5 year deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 In the same way that Bale was meant to be a left back but has excelled on the left wing, Barton has accidently stumbled upon his most productive position. Sometimes players evolve and as their strengths change, so do their positions. In my mind, Barton plays on the right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1350676/Northern-Exposure-Joey-Bartons-form-earned-second-chance-England.html Joey Barton's form has earned him a second chance with England By Colin Young Last updated at 1:24 PM on 26th January 2011 Should Joey Barton play for England again? Only Fabio Capello knows the answer. But it is a very difficult question for the England manager to ponder as Barton continues to enjoy the best season of his career. If the decision was based on form and the influence he has had in games against the top sides, Barton would be adding to his single cap. Based on his past, his reputation and one or two daft incidents this season, and he has no chance. Few players have played as well as this controversial figure this season, and certainly not for so long. For different reasons to Andy Carroll, Barton has been Newcastle's best player so far, and central to their comfortable place in the top ten and the 30 points already won. And if he wasn't Joey Barton, he would be joining Carroll in the England fold, no questions asked. But this is Joey Barton and because of his conviction and jail term for a drunken assault two years ago, there will be plenty urging Capello to simply avoid any controversy and ignore him. After all, this is the same player who gesticulated inappropriately at Fernando Torres, even if he was suggesting the Liverpool striker didn't have the guts to carry out his threat to finish their little spat in the tunnel. And didn't he punch Morten Gamst Pedersen in the gut in November? That apparently unprovoked attack was missed by the officials at the time, but inevitably picked up by the cameras and he was banned for three matches. Chris Hughton's last three matches as it turned out. Newcastle, and their manager, suffered in his absence. The midfielder was quick with his personal apology to the Norway international who had made the mistake of winding Barton up as a fairly innocuous attack broke down in the Newcastle area. It was heartfelt, it was articulate. But it was too late. Barton has admitted he faces a daily battle to fight his demons and his rage. No team-mate is immune from his acidic criticism if they make a mistake in a game, and he constantly walks the line between abusive and helpful. His captain Kevin Nolan keeps him in check, and Newcastle's players know how to take it now. But it can't be easy to play with, or against. He sets his standards high, though, not least for himself. He berates himself for a missed tackle, a poor pass. Newcastle were passed off the Park by Tottenham last Saturday, but it was Barton who provided the pass of the game to release Nile Ranger, only for the young striker to waste another opportunity to break his top flight duck. Equally costly - and no doubt noted by the England coach - was Barton's reckless injury-time pursuit of a second goal against Spurs. It was his careless loss of possession which then resulted in a quick counter and Aaron Lennon's simple equaliser. His manager Alan Pardew put it down to 'naivety' but both men know Barton should have known better. It wasn't naive; it was daft. And it will have been eating away at Barton during the break in Portugal this week. Whether playing on the right, or in the middle, Barton makes Newcastle tick, plays to Carroll's strengths in particular and opens up defences like few others in the entire Premier League. Not all Newcastle's strikers thrive on the service, mind you. In the first minute of the derby, after getting on the end of another probing Barton missile beyond Anton Ferdinand and Titus Bramble, Shola Ameobi was the guilty party. If he had taken the chance, it seems unlikely Barton would have ended the day on his knees, holding back tears. He thrived in that hostile Wearside atmosphere. When he eventually walked off, smiling and with more abuse being thrown in his direction, Barton responded by holding up two hands to Sunderland supporters. One showed five figures, the other just the one as he reminded his tormentors of the Halloween derby scoreline. Every time he took a corner he seemed to be asking the home crowd for more stick (if that was possible). But his decision to repeatedly walk to his mark, and then slowly place the ball was to backfire. Referee Howard Webb was counting every second, giving Sunderland time for their late equaliser. Capello does not seem like an England manager who will be swayed by outside influences, but he will have been warned about the nest he is stirring with Barton's inclusion in an England squad. He is a complicated player, an even more complicated man, and you don't envy Capello trying to manage him within the precious world of the England camp, but if any player deserves a second chance from the FA, it is Joey Barton. When he scythed down Xabi Alonso at Anfield, his final contribution to Newcastle's doomed fight against relegation, I was not alone in sharing Alan Shearer's assertion that he should have played his last game for Newcastle. Circumstances probably saved his Newcastle career more than anything. That he was to play such an important role in Newcastle's immediate return was no surprise. The man lives for adversity, and he was always going to enjoy being back in the Premier League and putting all his hard work off the field to serious effect on it. I'll be honest. Because of his disciplinary record, and, believe it or not, his reputation, I had doubts about putting him in my Daily Mail Fantasy Football team, but he was just such great value at £5.4million that it had to be done. He has been one of the FF signings of the season for Dunga's Bizarro FC. And with talks opened to extend his contract, Newcastle are about to make one of the signings of the January transfer window. He wants to stay for the rest of his career, thankfully Alan Pardew and Mike Ashley can see the sense in that. But like Pardew, and Newcastle's players and fans, I hope he's not the only January signing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakie Doke Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 is he playing better this season than he did in 06/07, when he pretty much single-handedly kept City up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 It's pretty narrow minded to write Barton off as a CM for the rest of his career because he's having a decent run on the right side tbh His form on the right is much down to the freedom he's given rather than him been a particulaly great winger, if we incorperated him into a central role with as much freedom I doubt there would be much change in his form. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 People seem to forget Barton is actualy a centre mid (he wasn't used on the right during his best City days), in the next 5 years our style of play will change and he may well not be needed as a RM like he is now. But he's never had one really good game for us in the middle. Even in his previous good run of form under KK, it was on the right. His City days were, what, five years ago? I keep going on about it but it staggers me that anyone could have watched Barton throughout his NUFC career and still think he might be better off centrally. and for the record i'm not saying he would be better off playing centraly for us atm, i'm saying that in 5 years time things will more than likely change. (you sort of reiterated my point with the "what, five years ago?" comment like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Caulkin thinks his new contract will be announced tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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