Scottish Mag 3 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Portsmouth boss Tony Adams has made Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton his top target in the January transfer window, skysports.com understands. Adams is in the market for midfield reinforcements after seeing Lassana Diarra move to Real Madrid and Papa Bouba Diop suffer a long-term injury. Pompey have money to spend this month as Adams looks to rebuild his squad at Fratton Park and he is a big fan of the one-time England international. Adams is believed to have sounded out a move for the 26-year-old as he believes Barton would be the ideal replacement for Diarra. Portsmouth's pursuit of Barton has been given a boost with the news that the midfielder is due to return to action within the next week after recovering from the knee injury which has sidelined him since November. The former Manchester City ace, who was available for £2million in the summer, had impressed in the Newcastle side before suffering his injury against Wigan. Newcastle could be tempted to cash-in on Barton if Portsmouth make a suitable offer as Magpies boss Joe Kinnear looks to raise funds for his own signings this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 How could he pass a fuckin' medical???? Also, the players at Pompey now must be hellish jealous of Defoe at being able to get out of that shitty club. Any player who goes there, when they have a chance of going somewhere else, deserves to stay there and rot. Pompey are going dooooooooooooooooown imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1205 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Earlier on I was reading Adams wouldn't have the money from the Defoe and Diarra deals to use and was more interested in trying to keep the players there than trying to sign anyone new. We certainly can't afford to let him go especially not for the £2m they're talking here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrossthepond 864 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Non-starter imo, he wouldn't go there and they can't afford him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadrian 0 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 willie fucking mckay having a field day again with us atm . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6853 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Deja Vu! Werent they supposedly after him in the summer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7126 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Journalists putting 1 and 1 together and coming up with 3 tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_prso9 0 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Journalists putting 1 and 1 together and coming up with 3 tbh. It's the silly season. I expect a lot more transfer speculation shiite before feb 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 8761 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Deja Vu! Werent they supposedly after him in the summer? Blackburn evidently wanted him (from a NW journo), we supposedly offered cash for Warnock and they came back and said "less cash but plus Barton" we (the cockney mafia) said OK, and that's when KK kicked off and chucked his toys out. Alledgedly of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Deja Vu! Werent they supposedly after him in the summer? Who, Daja Vu?? He's currently with Merde Sur La Mer in the French second division, non?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Newcastle United yesterday rejected a £2m bid for Joey Barton from Bolton Wanderers but are understood to be willing to sell the midfielder for £6.5m. Although Joe Kinnear is desperate to keep Barton, Mike Ashley, the club's owner, does not entirely share his manager's enthusiasm for a player who has spent part of his Newcastle tenure in prison serving time for assault. Should Barton – currently recovering from a knee injury – depart Tyneside by the end of this month it is safe to assume that relations between Kinnear and his board could become strained, particularly as central midfield has long been Newcastle's weakest, most thinly staffed, area. Bolton's offer was an initial £2m rising to £3m, with the further £1m to follow provided certain provisos were met, but the St James' Park board is expecting a higher bid to be shortly submitted by Portsmouth. Coincidentally, much to Kevin Keegan's chagrin, Newcastle attempted to sell Barton to Portsmouth behind their former manager's back on the final day of the last transfer window. Tony Adams has identified Barton as an ideal replacement for Lassana Diarra and Pompey are understood to be preparing a formal offer. Adams, like Kinnear, is concerned about his team's engine room and has had a £4.5m bid for the former Fratton Park midfielder Gary O'Neil rejected by Middlesbrough. O'Neil's wife has failed to settle in the north-east and Boro are likely to allow him to leave during the summer but Portsmouth's manager cannot afford to wait another six months to fill the gap left by Diarra's defection to Real Madrid and will now turn to both Barton and Edu. The latter, a former Arsenal midfielder, is at Valencia but Portsmouth are exploring the possibility of taking him on loan from the La Liga side until the end of the season. Adams sees Barton as a longer-term signing. With the 26-year-old having received treatment for his alcohol and behavioural issues in the Sporting Chance clinic established by the former England defender, Portsmouth would certainly not be signing an unknown quantity. Meanwhile Gary Megson, the Bolton manager, is similarly undaunted by Barton's history and attempted, forlornly, to prise him from Newcastle last summer. If Barton, who cost Newcastle £5.8m when Sam Allardyce signed him 18 months ago, – established as a firm favourite of Kinnear's who has likened him affectionately to his former Wimbledon protege Vinnie Jones – does not lack admirers, he is, realistically, unlikely to command a fee of £6.5m. Although his undoubted ability and the fact that there are more than three years remaining on his contract would normally place Barton in that bracket, his extremely chequered recent past suggests that £3m might be a more viable valuation. Certainly it is thought that Portsmouth would not be willing to go any higher than the £4.5m they offered for O'Neil. Ashley, meanwhile, is still sore that, for legal reasons, he was unable to cut significantly Barton's £65,000 weekly wages when the player was released from prison last summer and would be happy to now see him removed from the payroll. Barton has not played for Newcastle since the home draw against Wigan Athletic on 15 November when a tackle from Lee Cattermole left him with damaged knee ligaments. Kinnear initially feared Barton would be on the sidelines until early March but he is now expected to return at the end of this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1205 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Newcastle United yesterday rejected a £2m bid for Joey Barton from Bolton Wanderers but are understood to be willing to sell the midfielder for £6.5m. Although Joe Kinnear is desperate to keep Barton, Mike Ashley, the club's owner, does not entirely share his manager's enthusiasm for a player who has spent part of his Newcastle tenure in prison serving time for assault. Should Barton – currently recovering from a knee injury – depart Tyneside by the end of this month it is safe to assume that relations between Kinnear and his board could become strained, particularly as central midfield has long been Newcastle's weakest, most thinly staffed, area. Bolton's offer was an initial £2m rising to £3m, with the further £1m to follow provided certain provisos were met, but the St James' Park board is expecting a higher bid to be shortly submitted by Portsmouth. Coincidentally, much to Kevin Keegan's chagrin, Newcastle attempted to sell Barton to Portsmouth behind their former manager's back on the final day of the last transfer window. Tony Adams has identified Barton as an ideal replacement for Lassana Diarra and Pompey are understood to be preparing a formal offer. Adams, like Kinnear, is concerned about his team's engine room and has had a £4.5m bid for the former Fratton Park midfielder Gary O'Neil rejected by Middlesbrough. O'Neil's wife has failed to settle in the north-east and Boro are likely to allow him to leave during the summer but Portsmouth's manager cannot afford to wait another six months to fill the gap left by Diarra's defection to Real Madrid and will now turn to both Barton and Edu. The latter, a former Arsenal midfielder, is at Valencia but Portsmouth are exploring the possibility of taking him on loan from the La Liga side until the end of the season. Adams sees Barton as a longer-term signing. With the 26-year-old having received treatment for his alcohol and behavioural issues in the Sporting Chance clinic established by the former England defender, Portsmouth would certainly not be signing an unknown quantity. Meanwhile Gary Megson, the Bolton manager, is similarly undaunted by Barton's history and attempted, forlornly, to prise him from Newcastle last summer. If Barton, who cost Newcastle £5.8m when Sam Allardyce signed him 18 months ago, – established as a firm favourite of Kinnear's who has likened him affectionately to his former Wimbledon protege Vinnie Jones – does not lack admirers, he is, realistically, unlikely to command a fee of £6.5m. Although his undoubted ability and the fact that there are more than three years remaining on his contract would normally place Barton in that bracket, his extremely chequered recent past suggests that £3m might be a more viable valuation. Certainly it is thought that Portsmouth would not be willing to go any higher than the £4.5m they offered for O'Neil. Ashley, meanwhile, is still sore that, for legal reasons, he was unable to cut significantly Barton's £65,000 weekly wages when the player was released from prison last summer and would be happy to now see him removed from the payroll. Barton has not played for Newcastle since the home draw against Wigan Athletic on 15 November when a tackle from Lee Cattermole left him with damaged knee ligaments. Kinnear initially feared Barton would be on the sidelines until early March but he is now expected to return at the end of this month. Interesting to see that someone else has finally noticed this. There is very little point in selling Barton, as the article says his actions off the field will have reduced the price we are likely to get for him and it would cost more than we could get for him to replace him with someone of similar ability (and it's someone of a higher ability we need). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Keegan, oh sorry.... Kinnear has the final say, eh? Ah Baggio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) Keegan, oh sorry.... Kinnear has the final say, eh? Ah Baggio. If you check the Mido / Smith thread, Wise supposedly told Smith he'd never play for the first team again if he scuppered the deal. Nice to know Wise is doing something for his salary anyway. Edited January 9, 2009 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Keegan, oh sorry.... Kinnear has the final say, eh? Ah Baggio. If you check the Mido / Smith thread, Wise supposedly told Smith he'd never play for the first team again if he scuppered the deal. Nice to know Wise is doing something for his salary anyway. Sounds believably like Wise really, I can't imagine he's much different to how he was as a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14002 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We need to keep Barton. £2m is a joke and for £6.5 we are still putting ourselves at risk to find, buy and settle a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We need to keep Barton. £2m is a joke and for £6.5 we are still putting ourselves at risk to find, buy and settle a replacement. I can't see that we will, even for £6.5m (assuming we get that, and that much is then made available) and not until the summer window at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7065 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We have to keep Barton like, at least he is a presence in midfield, albeit a slightly satanic one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 PORTSMOUTH boss Tony Adams has hinted he may offer bad-boy Joey Barton a fresh chance at Fratton Park. Adams expects to sign five players in the transfer window – three permanent and two on loan – and Barton could be among them. Having had a £4.5million bid for Middlesbrough’s Gary O’Neil rejected, Adams could now turn to Newcastle midfielder Barton, just returning after two months out with a knee injury. Adams said: “I’ve asked for five players. My squad needs that, so I can play different systems. I think Joey is a great man, but he plays for Newcastle. I give people second chances. People in glass houses and all that.” Pompey’s Premier League home game against Manchester City was called off on Saturday due to a frozen pitch, but they return to action tomorrow in an FA Cup third-round replay at Bristol City. Glen Johnson, with a new four-and-a-half-year deal just signed, could return after six matches out through injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 We have to keep Barton like, at least he is a presence in midfield, albeit a slightly satanic one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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