Joey Barton

I think like most people he thinks Hart is superior to caballero and not been given the chance to show pep what he can do. The writing is on the wall for Hart and Barton is merely questioning why city would let him go over the hapless caballero. I thin he's comments are based on the fact that he has been forced out rather than dropped for 2 games. He's given unbelievable service to City like yaya, Dzeko, Zab etc

Not sure most people do agree with that. Hart cannot or will not play the Pep way. I would say he has been dropped. Good job they don't drop him on his left side as he would miss it.

Player power has gone from City. The Mancini bollocks saw to that. The owners may have listened at the time and got rid of Mancini but they also took note and look now.
 
So -let's ignore Mr Bartons past. Clearly he is a knob. But in this case he expressed an opinion - probably related to the fact he is being paid to - let me think - oh yeah, express an opinion. And because it was negative to City's management he isn't allowed to have it? Maybe he should have said "I have no opinion on the subject however please can I get paid still for expressing no opinion?" that would have got the listeners ringing in to agree/disagree and the advertisers paying more as the listening figures continued to increase. In my opinion Pep is a muppet for playing Cab over Hart - even if he wants Hart out it makes more sense to play him until he finds a replacement. What if we draw cos of Cabs and at the end of the season lose the league by a point - great decision then. Unless he is trying to make a statement or indeed Joe is doing something behind the scenes we don't know. If it is a football decision then he clearly does not know a good goalkeeper from a bad one. Everyone had a blind spot - that would be his

That's the point.

We don't know anything of what has gone on away from the glare of publicity. That's the beauty of the CFA.
 
Average keepers can have good games. For Example; every average keeper we have ever played against.

On a serious note, I have always thought that he was top 15 goalkeeper in the world and one of the best in certain aspects. 1:1's & the willingness to put his body on the line. He never shied away from taking a rocket from point blank range. Not sure if it's skill or stupidity, but credit to him, he was one of the best in that aspect.
I agree especially about the one vs one side of his game.
 

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