Barton in new deal speculation – Carroll is NOT for sale
Posted on January 17th, 2011 | 16 Comments |
Apparently negotiations are underway to keep Joey Barton at Newcastle until (pretty much) the end of his playing career.
It is reported that Barton is prepared to take a £10,000/week wage drop to remain at Newcastle, which will drop him down to the £50,000/week that is allegedly the club’s maximum wage.
Barton has been in stunning form this season and has recently been making his case for an England recall. He has scored 3 times for us this season – including an absolute cracker against Stevenage in an otherwise disappointing game – and his passing has often been inch-perfect.
Beware though, some of these reports are coming from the red tops. Having said that, I can actually see the reports as having some truth in them.
Apparently West Ham and Aston Villa fancy signing Barton if his negotiations with Newcastle grind to a halt, although both those teams look to be in a lot more trouble than us this season and I can’t see Barton being particularly tempted to join either of them.
In addition, Alan Pardew has once again reiterated that Andy Carroll is not for sale.
Amidst speculation that Spurs are preparing a £30m bid for the player, Pardew said:
“They can put together whatever they like. He is not for sale.
“I am going to say it one last time, he is not for sale.”
Harry Redknapp appears to have poured cold water on the speculation too, saying:
“He’s a good player, he’s a handful, you’d like to have him in your team.
“But we are nowhere near getting Andy Carroll. How much is he? You are talking £30 million to 40 million.”
Hopefully that’s put the issue to bed, although I’ll still be relieved when the transfer window closes and Andy Carroll is still with us!
So the wage cap as gone from £25k thru £35k now to $50k a week as it lol lol lol
Well if thats how much it’ll cost to keep him at the club, then it sounds fair enough to me, considering if he was too leave, it would probably cost us that or more to find someone to replace him & that the club would suffer as we did when he was banned for those 3 games.. we didn’t play well at all during that time & we need players like him, Nolan, Enrique signed up asafp…. :)