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Double your money
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If sources including the Echo are to believed then it looks likely that Joey Barton is off to Newcastle on a double-your-money pay deal. Big Sam obviously feels that the troubled Barton is the ideal replacement for the outgoing Scott Parker, hardly suprising either that Newcastle are prepared once again to pay silly money (£100 k a week ?) to a player who shows promise but has more baggage than Heathrow.
The over-inflated transfer market and continuing astronomic increase in player's earnings looks likely to thwart much of Everton's activity in the close season; it would also suggest that Wyness was on the nail with his assessment that much of the increased TV revenue is likely to end up in the player's car park.
Which brings me to my final point, we either look overseas at possible recruits or we concentrate our efforts on players who want to play for the Club on reasonable and affordable terms. Some may be dissapointed at the talk of Jagielka, Koumas and Scharner; however, I would personally welcome a player who has desire to play for the Club and is not merely driven and motivated by greed. If Barton smells the dollar he will pursue it, forget Huyton-born Evertonian ? we had one from Croxteth and look what happened in that case ? and he was already our player!
Peter Laing, Posted 01/06/2007 at 11:59:17
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1 Posted 01/06/2007 at 15:06:00
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Newcastle are welcome to Joey Barton - I would rather he upset their dressing room than E.F.C’s. I can just see him and Sam coming to blows ... should be fun!