Barton will stay at Newcastle

Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton will stay at the club next season, according to boss Alan Pardew. Barton has not yet had any offers from another club for his services.

Barton hinted on Twitter recently that he would be leaving the club, but the Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has suggested otherwise: "I have spoken to Joey over the summer. Unfortunately at the moment there is no new contract for him.

"He has a year remaining and I think he will stay for that year.

"My view of it is quite open-ended. I think, like a lot of players, that yearly term contracts in the Premier League are going to be the norm.

"But who is to say that in a year's time that Joey gets a contract he finds acceptable?"