15 Oct 2016 12:18:05
Bringing Joey to Rangers is a big statement of intent by the club
Joey brings an enormous amount of experience and is a top professional
I'm very excited about what Joey can do for the team. He's got a real desire to win, he's a combative midfielder. "
All Quotes from Mark Warburton, so now that things have gone pair shaped, he's basically saying I made an error in judgement, and he's cost us at least 2 million, money we definitely cannot afford, don't worry the supporters will bail the club out again, season book price rise!
15 Oct 2016 12:34:16
He has been a massive mistake. We move on.
15 Oct 2016 13:28:03
Full blame lies at Joey Barton's door. He's cost us. Went from championship player of the year last season to Tool of the year this season. MW can't predict the future and nor should he be held accountable for the actions of a grown man. You must admit we were all excited when he signed. He's let us all down. £2m is a lot to us nowadays but in comparison to the money Walter, Dick and co. threw down the drain it's two tears in a bucket.
15 Oct 2016 13:34:51
Don't think the situation with Barton is as simple as just "moving on".
Biggest acquisition of the summer in terms of midfield experience and name recognition.
Was a massive risk and will cost us a fair bit to get rid.
All signings have made an impact apart from Barton.
15 Oct 2016 14:13:03
Dont know how it will cost us £2mill when we sell him in January. I would imagine we will make profit on him.
15 Oct 2016 14:55:18
I agree Huey.
Don't pay the idiot off, he hasn't earned it. If he won't walk. We play hard ball keep him well away from the 1st team and offload him in Jan, even if it's for free we are better off without him and his 20k a week salary could towards a decent centre half to play beside Wilson.
15 Oct 2016 16:22:26
hindsight is a great tool barton was at burnley with no trouble although they did not appear to fight hard to keep him only time will tell if that was warburtons only mistake in the transfer market he will have done well.
15 Oct 2016 17:22:28
Mjg
All our past managers have made mistakes more costly than sighting Barton Souness, Smith and, Advocate 10 of millions down the drain with some of there signings!
15 Oct 2016 20:06:45
Tore Andre flo, although his goals against Celtic where almost worth it.
15 Oct 2016 20:19:30
if flo had cost 5 million he would have been a bargain. every player has played there part in our history from flo to lafferty to boumsong they all deserve respect. except maybe nuns capucho lol.
15 Oct 2016 21:21:19
I here you saying Warburton made a mistake signing Barton but it was actually King who signed him, so Warburton has done nowt wrong.
15 Oct 2016 22:25:06
Absolutely spot on peterhuistra. Its down to mcparland and warburton to chose barton and king obviously gives the go a head but king didn't sign him that's a load of baws, but yeh with barton being the player of the season last year you can hardly blame anyone for thinking its a good shout. Its down to barton himself he's to blame for his poor performance his bust ups with team mates his off the pitch loud mouth and social media comments and now his betting.
16 Oct 2016 06:03:24
Barton, Burnley player of the season and in Championship team of the season was not the Championship player of the season. Just thought I'd clear that up.
As far as it goes I would have thought it would be cheaper and potentially quicker to allow lawyers to fine comb his contract to see if there is any breach which would be grounds for instant dismissal without pay.
The betting is looked at by sfa not us but here's hoping we have a valid legal reason to terminate his contract. Sick of this whole Barton saga far as I'm concerned as good a player that he may be he hasn't showed it here and has only gave us problems. We seem to be gelling a little better now let's keep this going.
16 Oct 2016 11:33:09
Signing him was a mistake- when I pointed it out all I heard in return was that I was being 'negative'.
But we did sign him and we can't behave like we are sports direct. Warburton needs to grow a pair and learn that criticism is part of the job. He's been extremely petty over this and his latest dispute with bt.
So we have our scapegoat, we are trying to force him out- good on Barton for standing up for himself. In this case Warburton pettiness will cost us money we don't have- nobody will bid for him after we have publicly trashed his already questioned reputation.
Some fans need to take off the blue tinted specs and look at what's really happening- Warburton is not infallible.
16 Oct 2016 11:52:24
Large bill - he's far from his only mistake.
Yes all managers make errors, but IMO only rossiter and windass are good enough for where we hope to be in the future.
Most his other signings will never get us to the level we need to be at to challenge Celtic.
IMO - we could and should have added 2-3 players of a higher standard rather than spreading our cash thinly bringing in 11 players. But more imaginative scouting of lower leagues across Europe would have helped. Warburton said he wouldn't do that because they would take too omg to settle- well the majority of his summer signings have yet to show their best.
16 Oct 2016 12:13:17
Peterhuistra, i also agree with your post, but if joey still wants to play football he will be off in January, he could have done well st our club, if he wasnt so stuburn, imo.