So the bookies are clearly having far too much festive cheer, they have Sunderland down as fourth, yes that’s 4th favourite to sign muppet Joel Barton.
Barton who is a massive hate figure at Sunderland, openly slates the Black Cats on his official twitter ever since he played for Newcastle.
He has always been a player that thinks he is far better than he actually is, and is generally up himself.
Bully Barton who has served a prison sentence for beating up a boy, on a night out in Liverpool was said to have shown his true colours in prison. In an interview with a fellow prisoner, Barton was said have cried himself to sleep every night.
Lee Cattermole may also have something to say having shown Barton a few lessons in hard knocks throughout both careers, once when Cattermole was at Wigan, then again at the Tyne and Wear derby when Cattermole again put bully boy Barton on his backside only to be carried off.
Barton has caused nothing but problems for whatever team he has played for, got kicked out on Glasgow having a reportedly string of training ground fall outs.
Although Burnley, Villa and are higher on the list of likely destinations for the disgraced Barton, clearly the bookies need to do their homework on the Sunderland link.