Joey Barton was released from jail today for his latest court appearance, this time on the assault charges relating to the attack on former team-mate Ousmane Dabo. I have been looking forward to this in the expectation that his current jail term would be increased sufficiently.
Don't ask me how, but he has somehow managed to get a suspended four month sentence in return for changing his plea to guilty. Sure, this saves a lot of wasted time and effort but the bloke has already worked his way up to prison, so the threat of prison looks extremely lenient.
Still, better news is that Newcastle, his current benefactors, are re-thinking the wisdom of employing this anti-social liability. Ousmane Dabo too, now has a real propsect of bringing a private prosecution for loss of earnings and that might hurt the Scally Barton more than spending his time with like-minded "charmless nerds."
On the transfer front, still nothing to report for the Addicks. We've released a winger I profess to never have having heard about. Certainly if I did, his impression at the club has been non-existent, so no loss in my book. More depressingly, Crystal Palace have today signed Nick Carle, a left-sided midfielder who I would have been very pleased to see join us. He did a consistently good job for Bristol City last year and has gone cheaply in my book at c £500,000.
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Carle isn't that good don't worry. He had a Jerome Thomas-esque 0 in the goals scored column.
ReplyDeleteHoolahan at £250k looked bargainous in my opinion.