Top facts about Joey Barton, the Bingo

Joseph Anthony Barton is a former midfielder and manager in the English professional football league. In the Premier League, he made 269 appearances, 130 for

. He is presently the manager of Bristol Rovers in League One.

Barton's career and life have been marked by a number of controversies and disciplinary issues, and he has been accused of violent crimes twice. He was sentenced to six months in jail for common assault and affray after an incident in Liverpool City Centre on the 20th of May 2008. Barton was released on July 28, 2008, after serving 74 days in jail.

He was also issued a four-month suspended sentence on 1 July 2008 after admitting to assaulting former teammate Ousmane Dabo during a training-ground conflict on 1 May 2007. His Manchester City career was effectively terminated as a result of this incident. The Football Association has charged Barton with aggressive conduct three times: for assaulting Dabo, hitting Morten Gamst Pedersen in the stomach, and attacking three players on the final day of the 2011–12 season.

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Barton joined

to follow his dream of being a professional footballer, but when he was 14, he played for Liverpool but it turned out that his youth days were much more vivid than his grown-up days. If you don’t know what I mean, you are about to, since we are going to get to the details right now.

Joey Barton information

We have prepared a full list of his most basic information which would give you just enough information that you need to immerse yourself in the top facts about Joey Barton article.

Personal information

• Full name

  : Joseph Anthony Barton

• Current profession

  : Manager

• Date of birth

  : 2 September 1982

• Age

  : 38

• Star Sign

  : Virgo

• Star sign features

  : Logical, practical, systematic

• Nationality

  : England

• Place of birth

  : Huyton, England

• Marital status

  : Dating

• Religion

  : Christianity

Football information

• Position

  : Midfielder

• Current team

  : Bristol Rovers

• Player agent

  : Willie McKay

• Total appearances

  : 436

• Club appearances

  : 435 

• National appearances

  : 1

• Foot

  : Right

Physical stats and appearance

• Height

  : 1.75 m

• Weight

  : 70 kg

• Hair color

  : Dark Brown

• Skin color

  : White

• Facial hair

  : Clean

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Joey Barton Transfermarkt

In this part of the top facts about Joey Barton, we will be looking at his stats and information on the

website. Since there is much information about Joey Barton on the website, we have divided this information into 3 categories of general information which would be provided under the current heading, market value, and transfer list.

According to transfermarkt.com, Joey Barton was capable of playing 2 other alternate positions which were defensive midfielder and right midfielder. His current agent is Willie McKay.

Willie McKay is a Monaco-based British football agent. He was the agent for a number of top-level footballers, mostly from England and France, and particularly from the Premier League. Walter Palombo, an Italian-born Swiss agent, was his associate.

Joey Barton is currently pursuing a managerial career and is leading Bristol Rovers.

is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, that plays in League One, the English football league system's third tier.

Joey Barton market value

Joey Barton's market value had all the ups and downs that it could since it was directly based on his performance and events that happened in his life.

Since he is considered one of the most controversial footballers so it is expected that his market value graph would be wild. It starts from 750 thousand euros and takes off to reach 8.5 million euros in late 2007 and early 2008.

Then it drops drastically in late 2009 to mark 3 million euros on the graph. For a year or so it remained unchanged. Then again it rose once again to 7 million euros when he joined

in 2012.

But after that, it was all downhill and it dropped to 1 million euros right before he decided to retire from his playing career.

Joey Barton transfer list

Most of Joey Barton’s transfers have been loan transfers and as you know loan transfers often are without fees.

However, there is one transfer by which we can compare his market value and the money he got paid as the fee of the contract and it was his move from Manchester City to Queen Park Rangers and we will take a look at it in this section of top facts about Joey Barton. 

His market value was somewhere around 7.4 million euros and the fee was slightly higher, somewhere around 8.6 million euros.

Joey Barton career

Let us get to his career so we can wrap up the top facts about Joey Barton which are related to his football career.

Barton would have made his City first-team debut against Middlesbrough in November 2002 if he hadn't misplaced his shirt after leaving it on the substitutes' bench at half-time. On 5 April 2003, he made his first-team debut for the club against Bolton Wanderers.

On October 22, 2007, Barton made his Premier League debut for

, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 3–1 victory over Tottenham. Following an incident that occurred at 5:30 a.m.

On December 27, 2007, Barton was arrested on suspicion of attack in the Church Street area of Liverpool city center.

After contract negotiations between the club and the player broke down on May 25, 2011, Barton's lawyer, Willie McKay, announced that his client would not be signing a new contract at St James' Park.

Barton signed a four-year free transfer deal with Queens Park Rangers on August 26, 2011.

Barton signed a one-year deal with Championship club

 on August 27, 2015. For the 2015–16 season, he was named to the Championship PFA Team of the Year.

Then again, he signed a two-year deal with Rangers in the Scottish Premiership on May 24, 2016. On the 19th of July, he made his Rangers debut as a substitute in a 2–0 Scottish League Cup win over Annan Athletic.

Despite the possibility of an FA suspension, Barton returned to Burnley on January 2, 2017, and made his second appearance for the club in a goalless draw with Sunderland in the FA Cup third round. Burnley released him on May 23, 2017.

Joey Barton net worth and salary

Football players will make a lot of money as professionals. However, their salary is determined by a variety of factors. The player's positions and, of course, their performance is among them. Stars in the United Kingdom and some European countries will get $50 million or more at the highest level.

The best players in South America earn $1 to $2 million per year, while players in countries where football is less common, such as the United States and China, earn a few hundred thousand per year. The lowest-paid leagues pay less than $50,000 a year.

However, in Joey Barton’s case, his estimated net worth is somewhere around 5.7 million dollars and it is said that he is getting 1.4 million dollars a year as his salary.

Joey Barton family

This part of the top facts about Joey Barton contains information about his family and the bitter story of his brother.

Barton is the oldest of four brothers and was born in Huyton, Merseyside. When he was 14, his parents divorced, and he moved in with his father at his grandmother's house on different land.

Michael Barton, Barton's brother, was sentenced to life in prison (with a 17-year tariff) for his role in the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in 2005. Following the assault, Joey made a public plea to his brother to come forward and assist the police investigation, as well as making a series of calls to Michael, inquiring about his role in the incident.

Joey Barton controversies

Joey Barton has been banned from all football activities for the next 18 months after admitting to a Football Association betting misconduct charge. During Manchester City's Christmas party in December 2004, Stubs lit a cigar in the eye of young teammate Jamie Tandy.

The club fined him six weeks' pay. Forced to pay four weeks' wages (approximately £60,000) right away, with two additional weeks postponed for a year. Tandy later filed a lawsuit against Barton and was awarded £65,000 in damages.

During a pre-season visit to Bangkok in July 2005, he was involved in an altercation with a 15-year-old Everton fan at City's team hotel. After being found guilty of criminal misconduct, the City fined him eight weeks' pay.

May 2007 - Suspended by City following a training-ground brawl with Ousmane Dabo that required medical care for his teammate. Charged with assault and given a four-month suspended sentence on July 1, 2008. The FA has also imposed a 12-match suspension, six of which are suspended, as well as a £25,000 fine.

In May 2008, He was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting to common assault and affray in the city center of

the previous December.

During a 2-1 loss for Newcastle at St James' Park in November 2010, he punches Blackburn winger Morten Gamst Pedersen. Accepts an FA charge and receives a three-game suspension.

May 2012 – While playing for QPR, is sent off for elbowing Carlos Tevez at Manchester City on the final day of the season. Before being escorted off the field, he knees Sergio Aguero and tries to headbutt Vincent Kompany. After that, he was suspended for 12 matches.

September 2016 – After an alleged altercation with teammate Andy Halliday, now a Rangers player, Barton is barred from the club's training ground.

Joey Barton in other fields

Let us see where else did Joey appear other than the green field and what facts can we find to extend the

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On the BBC's Question Time debate program on May 29, 2014, Barton said of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), "If I'm somewhere and there are four very ugly people, I'm hoping she's not the worst – that's what UKIP are." An audience member called Barton's remarks sexist, causing him to apologize on air.

In a conversation with presenter Amal Fashanu, niece of England's first openly gay footballer Justin Fashanu, Barton confirmed his views in favor of gay rights in a television program broadcast on BBC Three on 30 January 2012.

Since his uncle is gay, he described the lack of openly gay players in English professional football as "a topic that's very close to my heart."

In a February 2015 article published in The Independent, Barton stated: "I would privatize religion if I were Prime Minister. Religion will be stripped of all public funds.

Taxpayer funds can no longer be used to support religion in any way." He advocated for the dissolution of the Church of England. He was made an honorary member of the National Secular Society in April of that year.

After mass resignations from his cabinet and a leadership challenge, Barton backed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in June 2016. He wrote on Twitter: "I hope

sticks it out. What has happened is a disgrace."

Before the 2017 UK general election, he tweeted in June 2017, "Some right-wing newspapers' stories about @jeremycorbyn today are truly surprising. "Vote @UKLabour" and "Feast on the latest public concern and safety issues."

Joey Barton social media

Joey Barton was once one of the most popular players on Twitter but his life events took back the reputation that once offered him as a football career. We are going to analyze his Instagram and Twitter and see what he is up to.

Joey Barton Twitter

With nearly 3 million followers as of 2021, Barton is a well-known Twitter user and, of course we should analyze

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His diverse tweets have led the BBC to describe him as "a philosophical sportsman to rival

in his heyday," as he comments on personalities ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche and George Orwell to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Morrissey.

Others in the media have slammed this interpretation, with Paul Hayward, the Daily Telegraph's chief sports writer, writing that Barton's depiction is inaccurate "He is skilled at tricking us into watching him veer between the extremes of thinker and thug at the same time... he manages to be patronized [by the media] and kept up as some sort of exemplar at the same time...

This is either a rebuke of social hypocrisy or, more likely, a sign of sociopathic tendencies."

Joey Barton Instagram

Joey Barton is active on Instagram by the name of joey7bartonofficial with a blue mark by his name indicating that this is indeed his real page. He currently has over 100k followers and has been posting pictures of his daily chores and the old pictures of him in the field as a player.

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