Joey Barton tried to get Mark Hughes to fight him after locking them in a room and saying: ‘I hate you so much and you hate me’
JOEY BARTON has admitted trying to fight Mark Hughes after locking the door behind his then-manager and saying: “I hate you so much and you hate me – let’s just sort it out.”
Barton endured a tempestuous three years at QPR, peaking off the field when he asked boss Mark Hughes to sort out their problems with a fightPA:Press AssociationMark Hughes was known as a hardman player but as a manager talked sense into Joey Barton in 2012 when the midfielder suggested a fight to settle differencesGetty Images
Barton, 34, told Sky One’s A League Of Their Own his rocky relationship with Sparky at QPR hit a shocking low in 2012.
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The ex-Manchester City and Newcastle star, capped once by England, said: ‘I’ve had managers try to fire me up by getting stuck into me.
‘One high-profile manager, I followed him into his office, locked the door on him and said, ‘Come on let’s just sort this out, me and you.
“The only way to sort this out is me and you have a fight ’cause I hate you so much and you hate me, let’s just sort it out and whoever walks out, walks out and we get on with it’.
Barton had ups and downs at Loftus Road, even compared to his troubled spells with some of his other clubsGetty Images
Barton confirming he was talking about Hughes and ALOTO presenter James Corden asked if they came to blows.
Barton replied: ‘No, no, no. He was like, ‘What do you mean?’
“I said: ‘You’re treating my like a k***head, you think I’m a k***head’, and he was like, ‘I obviously can’t fight you, I’m the manager of the football club’, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah – actually you can’t’.
“So we had to kind of de-escalate it.”
Joey Barton has agreed a pay-off from Rangers in Scotland after another flare-upGetty ImagesJoey Barton had what was arguably his most controversial clash at QPR when Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero was sent reelingGetty Images
Barton was finally loaned to Marseille for 2012-13 before finally leaving QPR in 2015 after 99 games for them.
He agreed a pay-pay from Scottish Premier League namesakes Rangers this week.
Barton had been suspended after a training ground flare-up in September involving team-mate Andy Halliday and manager Mark Warburton.
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