This is one of the rare moments when Joey Barton and Neymar feature in the same sentence.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and it looks like Neymar’s astounding golazo against Villarreal on Sunday was the exact moment when former Man City man Barton was sold on the Barcelona superstar.
In light of his unbelievable finish, the always reliable Twitterati dug up a tweet Barton sent in 2013 where he claimed that Neymar only looked good in highlights and was actually a poor footballer.
Neymar is the Justin Bieber of football. Brilliant on the old You Tube. Cat piss in reality…
— 👑 Joey Barton 👑 (@Joey7Barton) March 25, 2013
The claim has come back to bite Barton on the behind as we all know about Neymar’s brilliance at this stage. Even Barton himself was able to laugh about how wrong he was.
Starting to slowly regret that Neymar tweet…
— 👑 Joey Barton 👑 (@Joey7Barton) November 8, 2015
Although he hasn’t changed his stance on Bieber.
Conceding nothing on Bieber. He is and will forever be cat urine…
— 👑 Joey Barton 👑 (@Joey7Barton) November 8, 2015
Nice save, Joey.
