They can pay him off, but not just sack him for that. With Tevez, City were better off just docking him wages for not showing up rather than paying out his contract to get rid.
Has to be legal problems, if it were easy he would have been gone by now. Sell him back to Man. City, I'm sure they would be happy to take him as a reward for giving them the game!
MARK HUGHES HAS FINAL SAY ON JOEY BARTON FATE
Sunday May 27,2012
By Colin Mafham
MARK HUGHES holds the key to whether Joey Barton is booted out of QPR – and possibly England – without a penny.
The QPR boss will be asked if he wants to keep the problem player, who has been banned for 12 games and fined £75,000 after being sent off at Manchester City on the last day of the Premier League season.
If Hughes gives the thumbs down, Barton faces being shown the exit from Loftus Road after an internal inquiry. A decision is unlikely before next month, even though the club’s wealthy backers are believed to be disgusted by the disgraced star’s conduct.
Under current legislation, Barton, 29, who joined the club on a free transfer from Newcastle last August, is unlikely to be able to claim any compensation if dismissed – or anything else for that matter.
As it stands, the law affords him no legal rights to sue QPR for unfair dismissal because he hasn’t been employed by the club for 12 months. New rules have also increased that qualifying period to two years.
The QPR midfielder will not appeal against the decision
All this means that Barton, who signed a lucrative contract believed to be worth about £11million, would face a massive legal fight to find some technical loophole to salvage anything – if QPR decide to fire him.
It means the maverick midfielder, who joined QPR after a public fallout with the Tyneside club, faces being cast into football’s wilderness.
It is possible that British clubs may not risk signing a player with such a disastrous disciplinary record, one who the former England manager Fabio Capello described as “too dangerous” to consider for national team selection.
That would leave the seemingly unrepentant Barton, who turns 30 in September, with little option but to try his luck abroad.
Why Can't Barton Be Sacked?
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posted on 18/5/12
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posted on 18/5/12
They'd have to pay him off, which I'm told would be around £10m.
posted on 18/5/12
Baring in mind city couldn’t sack tevez after he refused to play, I wouldn’t have thought rangers had much chance of sacking a player because he was sent off
posted on 18/5/12
They can pay him off, but not just sack him for that. With Tevez, City were better off just docking him wages for not showing up rather than paying out his contract to get rid.
posted on 18/5/12
Has to be legal problems, if it were easy he would have been gone by now. Sell him back to Man. City, I'm sure they would be happy to take him as a reward for giving them the game!
posted on 27/5/12
MARK HUGHES HAS FINAL SAY ON JOEY BARTON FATE
Sunday May 27,2012
By Colin Mafham
MARK HUGHES holds the key to whether Joey Barton is booted out of QPR – and possibly England – without a penny.
The QPR boss will be asked if he wants to keep the problem player, who has been banned for 12 games and fined £75,000 after being sent off at Manchester City on the last day of the Premier League season.
If Hughes gives the thumbs down, Barton faces being shown the exit from Loftus Road after an internal inquiry. A decision is unlikely before next month, even though the club’s wealthy backers are believed to be disgusted by the disgraced star’s conduct.
Under current legislation, Barton, 29, who joined the club on a free transfer from Newcastle last August, is unlikely to be able to claim any compensation if dismissed – or anything else for that matter.
As it stands, the law affords him no legal rights to sue QPR for unfair dismissal because he hasn’t been employed by the club for 12 months. New rules have also increased that qualifying period to two years.
The QPR midfielder will not appeal against the decision
All this means that Barton, who signed a lucrative contract believed to be worth about £11million, would face a massive legal fight to find some technical loophole to salvage anything – if QPR decide to fire him.
It means the maverick midfielder, who joined QPR after a public fallout with the Tyneside club, faces being cast into football’s wilderness.
It is possible that British clubs may not risk signing a player with such a disastrous disciplinary record, one who the former England manager Fabio Capello described as “too dangerous” to consider for national team selection.
That would leave the seemingly unrepentant Barton, who turns 30 in September, with little option but to try his luck abroad.
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