And the winner of the NUFC Blog Player of the Season award is….

Barton wins.
Well seeing as The Chronicle has unveiled their results for their own Player of the Season Award I guess it’s about time I got my **** into gear and announced ours.

Those who have read The Chronicle today will know that Joey Barton was selected by their readers as their choice of Player of the Season, and in a carbon copy of that result I can reveal that the winner of of the NUFC Blog Player of the Season Award, as voted for by you lot, is none other than……. Joey Barton.

Barton managed to secure 33% of the vote to put him well ahead of Cheik Tiote who finished second on 26%. Rounding off the top was Fabricio Coloccini who managed to secure 17% of the vote.

It’s a defiant message to the club who have announced that they will not be offering a player who has been voted to be the best of the bunch a new deal and is a mark of just how far Joey has come this year and how he has impacted on the first team.

Barton made 35 appearances in all competitions last season, scoring five goals in the process whilst being played mainly in an unfamiliar right-wing role. He was also the source of many an assist last season and set up almost half of Andy Carroll’s goals before his move to Liverpool.

The leadership that Barton displayed was a huge help to the team as they set about securing survival on their return to the Premier League and his performances even saw the midfielder being linked with a return to international football with England at some points. Unfortunately we all know that an England call up is unlikely to happen for Barton, which is a crying shame but I guess some people are unwilling to give people a chance.

Of course there is the now dominant news of Barton’s contract wrangle. It’s been talked about a lot in the last few days and perhaps this poll represents a part of the reason why the news has been so disappointing to many fans.

Anyway, well done Joey Barton – NUFC Blog Player of the Season for the 2010/2011 Premier League season.

In other news…… The Premier League line up for next season is complete as Swansea beat Reading 4-2 in the Championship play-off final this afternoon. That means that the three promoted teams are QPR, Norwich and, obviously, Swansea. We now know what we are up against next season.

Well done Joey. Well done Swansea.

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161 thoughts on “And the winner of the NUFC Blog Player of the Season award is….

  1. and I’ll be singin it at 3 in the morning 👿
    ah well pennies to earn n all that.
    Off to me pit, see yous all the morra 4 sum more good news 😆

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  2. GeorgeSmith05 George Smith

    Deal already in place to sign Cheikh M’Bengue if Enrique turns down the new offer on table. #nufc moving swift in this transfer market.

    Gervinho and Cabaye will be confirmed 6th June. Ashley once again proves he will pay the money for the right player. #nufc

    #nufc are in talks with AS Saint-Étienne over a possible deal with Blaise Matuidi, Étienne want 7 million #nufc not willing to go over 5.

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  3. Tell ye what, the club could do with confirming Cabaye asap to allay any fears that people have.

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  4. Dan – In the rare event that all of them came off, do you think it would be a good thing or a bad thing? Too much too soon, especially given that they are all foreign and would be new to the Premier League,

    Hmm. Ive just had an idea 😆

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  5. dan4toon……Cheikh M’Bengue would be a good replacement if Jose decides he doesn’t wanna hang around.

    But isn’t Jose in the same situation as JB…he has one year left on his contract, and can go for nowt next summer ?…

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  6. Dan
    any idea how reliable either cwarr or George smith are??
    Love the twit pic as well!!

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  7. dead right toonsy…new players need bedding in, but if we are at full strength for pre-season, and the new lads get a few games under there belts, we’ll be ok I think… Would like to see Nzogbia sign too to be honest…think Ashley’ll get him on the cheap too…10 mill…no way will Cashley pay that..

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  8. Tiote has a release clause in contract of 24.4 million pounds. Manchester United interested. Blaise Matuidi will be signed if Tiote leaves.

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  9. really can’t see Tiote leaving Jobey, doubt United would pay that sort of money for him if im honest.

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  10. Pav

    http://twitter.com/#!/GeorgeSmith05 there you go mate

    Army
    I would love him but I doubt that Chelsea will sell him. They have no reason to they don’t need money and he is a good prospect, if Abramovic has any sense he wont sell him. So I very much doubt we will sign him

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  11. ManU would never spend that on Tiote…not when they have the briilliant Carrick. Ha 😛

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  12. Toonsy, I think if they all came off they are experienced enough and good enough to adapt over here.

    Also a don’t think they will get confirmed until either 6th June or after their international games.

    Pearceet, cwarr is sometimes right sometimes wrong. That George Smith I wouldn’t trust really, just seems to have set-up an account to say a load of ****. And Cheers 😉

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  13. Toonsy @55 no mate Warris and Fur10ng:

    cwarr07 Colin
    For those asking the Cabaye & Gervinho fees are being paid in full by Ashley upon the players signing their contracts #nufc

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  14. Toonsy
    This random bloke George Smith (GeorgeSmith05) who has just joined twitter. page here – http://twitter.com/#!/GeorgeSmith05. He’s started talking about some stuff like the Tiote rumour etc…… Personally I think it’s all **** but who knows ey!

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  15. thats why i hate twitter , the ***** that is put on is unreal!!! george smith hahaha what a muppet

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  16. It is so easy to just set one up and start rumours and they spread like wildfire! I guess we’ll just have to see. There’s so much going around tonight!

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  17. Wouldn’t go for it meself Lesh, too thick for management…Cardiff are desparate for instant promotion and they’ll splash out on whoever they can get. Bellamy would appease the fans, but I doubt he’d want it either to be honest.

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  18. ive had enough of the rumours the last 3 days!!! weve been linked with evvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveryone even berbatov!! im giving up hope until i see the news offical for any signings cos some sad people love making **** up!! gameiro , gervinho , pratley , berbatov , nzogbia , hoillet , enriques replacement , cobaye , sturridge , and many more !!! christ

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  19. Firstly, I voted for Colo. Judging by the amount of people saying they voted for Colo, how has he only ended up with 17% of the votes?
    Secondly, Cabaye will link up with the French squad and will only do his medical and sign the contract on his return, hence June the 6th is the earliest we can expect his official arrival at the toon. Same could happen to Gervinho although that one still remains in the balance.

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  20. Don’t believe this George Smith at all. Anyone could just make an account then tweet the things he has.

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  21. Army – I mean stop nibbling on everything as it may well be a wind up 😉

    Anyway, me and you are supposed to be the same person so can you go to work for me tomorrow bud? Cheers 😀

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  22. Army69
    Posted May 30, 2011 at 10:17 PM
    have newcastle got any home games in the pre season coming up?

    No.

    We’re a soft touch. 😉

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  23. Army – No, because it just isn’t worth it financially I guess. It makes no sense opening up SJP and paying all the costs involved just to sell cheap tickets and make a loss. They may aswell let the other clubs take the hit of paying to host the match and get their share of the gate for doing nowt 😉

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  24. **** ME i just read a headline on Sky that is Enrique in talks with Roma . Thank **** when i read the full article they mean Enrique the Barca b team’s coach .

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  25. last pre season i went to at st james’s we played deportivo and it was scott parker and emre’s first game for us , think we got beat

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