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ratherbelucky

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Seems he is surplus to requirements at Everton and I think he would be a perfect player for us .especially to take Pearson under his wing and teach him the finer points of the game .maybe a contract which is reasonable with an option for some coaching thrown in .im sure he has enough cash in th bank not to need a massive wage and he wouldn't need to move his family . Might need to push the boat out but would be a great professional for us
 
ratherbelucky said:
Seems he is surplus to requirements at Everton and I think he would be a perfect player for us .especially to take Pearson under his wing and teach him the finer points of the game .maybe a contract which is reasonable with an option for some coaching thrown in .im sure he has enough cash in th bank not to need a massive wage and he wouldn't need to move his family . Might need to push the boat out but would be a great professional for us
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It doesn't work like that.......

Put your tin hat on lad - Get ready for the influx of comments based on his wages, which I will agree with.
 
He will want as much as he can get....I think the days of signing big earners in the twilight of their careers have long gone at North End.
 
ratherbelucky said:
Seems he is surplus to requirements at Everton and I think he would be a perfect player for us .especially to take Pearson under his wing and teach him the finer points of the game .maybe a contract which is reasonable with an option for some coaching thrown in .im sure he has enough cash in th bank not to need a massive wage and he wouldn't need to move his family . Might need to push the boat out but would be a great professional for us
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He'll be demanding no less than 50k a week at any club he moves to. He's probably on 100k a week at Everton. He's 36. I'd say that categorically rules PNE out of signing Barry.

I'm not sure he'd actually contribute that much anyway, in either a coaching or playing capacity. At the top level, Barry has never been a particularly inspiring (or 'good') player anyway. He was so inept against Germany in Bloemfontein in the 2010 World Cup it was tangible.

As a side note, it is symptomatic of England's chronic tendency to favour skill-deprived, 'workhorse' dross over genuine international talent that Gareth Barry has almost the same number of England caps to his name as Paul Scholes and just 4 less than Paul Gascoigne. Mental.
 
If we were in the Premiership then I think he'd consider joining us and would be potentially a decent signing, just the sort of experience you need. In the Championship there's probably at least a dozen clubs who'd seriously consider offering him more money than we could afford if he was willing to drop down a level.

But the player who's amassed the most yellow cards in the history of the Premier League, don't forget football was invented by Oldham Athletic and Coventry City in 1992, probably isn't the ideal mentor for a player we're all in agreement already gets too many yellow cards himself.
 
Ah another aging player who won't want much cash and we can offer him a coaching role that he probably doesn't want as a sweetener....

He'd be a good signing though.
 
I really rate Gareth Barry, but he is 36 and does not fit our model. I'd love an O'Neil type player to sit with Pearson and allow him to press higher. Though he has been top notch in the holding role (dismissal apart).

Burnley, Villa and West Brom all linked with Barry and all more plausible options, particularly Villa.
 
edgy said:
I feel our standard offer of £300 per week wages, a greggs loyalty card, a £25 club shop voucher and the free use of a 1987 Vauxhall nova may not appeal
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I'm pretty sure it's a Vauxhall Belmont estate, the club run about. Mainly used by Gallagher to collect the buttys on a Saturday morning from the green frog.
 
The kind of wages pne could offer Gareth Barry wouldn't even be enough to keep his fancy gas guzzling motor in petrol for his commutes to deepdale.
 
We would have more chance of signing two other famous barrys - white and manilow - and one of those is dead and I don't think the other is championship standard at football.
 
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