Neville compares kangaroo to Forest Gump.

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By Alex Varney | Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Neville Southall has urged Everton manager Roberto Martinez not to grant Joey Barton his dream move to Goodison Park.

Barton’s agent Willie McKay told talkSPORT on Wednesday that his client was keen to join the club he supported as a boy and would be prepared to take a significant wage cut to force through a move from QPR.

But Goodison Park legend Southall believes Martinez would be wise to steer clear of the controversial midfielder.

"I think they have already got a kitman," said Southall, when asked on Hawksbee & Jacobs whether he thought the 30-year-old would be a good signing.

"What is he going to add to Everton? He might be a half decent player at times but, if he was that good, Harry Redknapp would be begging him to stay at QPR.

“I don’t see how he will fit into Everton’s style of play. He ain't the best passer in the world. Yes, he is fit and runs up and down all day but Forrest Gump did that as well, didn’t he?

"I would rather he [Martinez] got in a young lad, who is probably on less money and a better prospect in the long run so they have got until January to bed him in and see what he is like. A 30-year-old at Everton? I was hoping they were past that, unless he was a current international.

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Southall has often struck me as a rather sneering sort of character in the few interviews i've heard. On purely footballing grounds he's probably being a bit harsh, he had an okay season in Ligue 1 didn't he? Like Joe Cole i think he might do better to remain there instead of returning to the city of Liverpool.

 

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On purely footballing grounds Barton is a pretty good player and a very competent passer. Southall just looking for excuses not to have Barton, not that anyone can blame him. Martinez would have to be insane to buy him

 

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Southall has often struck me as a rather sneering sort of character in the few interviews i've heard. On purely footballing grounds he's probably being a bit harsh, he had an okay season in Ligue 1 didn't he? Like Joe Cole i think he might do better to remain there instead of returning to the city of Liverpool.

Nothing Sneering about that just pretty much spot on.

He is the kind of player Redknapp should want in his team but gets loaned out for non-footballing reasons.

Everton had fantastic team spirit (on the pitch) under Moyes why would Martinez want to come in and immediately jeopardize that?

He's no spring chicken and Martinez has just brought in a fine young player in Deulofeu so where Barton would fit into that CM line up is questionable and if you were a Barca director the though of a player of Deulofeu's talents sharing a training pitch with Barton or even a dressing room might give you nightmares.

He's not a good enough player to justify a starting spot at Everton and he'd need to be on the kind of wages he's on.

No real need for him and not harsh in the slightest, he's a cancer.