Barton 'Determined' To Return To Training!
Last updated : 10 May 2009 By Footy Mad - Editor
Alan Shearer has made a clamp down "all players MUST arrive at 10am for training", and Barton will be there on the dot.
Barton is contracted to turning up for training after his two-week club suspension for his post-match bust-up with Shearer at Liverpool last Sunday expires, but will Newcastle give him paid leave?
They cannot suspend him any more than the two weeks, that is the FA limit, but they can send him on holiday ... and give him his wages.
Yes, while his team-mates fight for Premiership survival, the former Man City player could be sunning himself in Barbados.
Sources have confirmed Barton is "determined" to return to training and "sit tight" at Newcastle.