da dobrowin： Joey Barton should be a QPR player before Saturday’s game with Wigan the Daily Mail understands.
da bet vitoria： The troublesome Newcastle midfielder is available to leave St James’ Park for free and has been locked in discussions with Rangers for the past few days.
Manager Neil Warnock is keen to have the 28-year-old in before the trip to the DW Stadium but is refusing to confirm whether the deal will be completed in time.
He told the Daily Mail: “I don’t think you can say that about any deal really until people sign.
“I am not getting my hopes up one way or another. We’ve made him a very good offer and I think Joey appreciates that.
“Although I hope Joey doesn’t think we’re going to pay him what some of the papers said we were going to pay him this morning.
“I think you always want to get them completed as soon as possible.
“I would like to bring in a couple before the weekend and that is what I am going to try and do.’
Magpies owner Mike Ashley told Barton he could leave after criticising the clubs transfer strategy on social networking site twitter.
Warnock has now swooped to sign the midfielder and is delighted he’s able to target the likes of Barton after Tony Fernandes’ takeover at Loftus Road.
“I think we’re lucky to be looking at a player like that.” he said.
“It shows how ambitious the chairman (Tony Fernandes) is. He listened to the players I would like to bring in and Joey was one of them.
He added: “Joey will be an outstanding player week in, week out.”