In response to Barton's recent version of events on his website, Ousmane Dabo breaks silence and gives his side of the story:
He said in L'Equipe: "Joey Barton is lying about what happened on the training pitch at Manchester City. It is unbelievable. I am shocked.
There was a trial at the civil courts, he pleaded guilty, and got four months' suspended prison sentence. When he is talking, he denies it, he stated I have started it all. It is fake. All my team-mates that were present during the attack gave evidence for me during the trial.
He is nasty, a traitor. Sometimes I feel people roll out the red carpet for him. So I talk to remind people Joey Barton is a very violent player, far away from the image he tries to give since he joined Marseille.
He tackled me, I replied by tackling him too. We found ourselves face-to-face. I had no intention to fight. I jostled him, but I didn't hit him. So I turned back and then he struck me to the side of the head. I lost consciousness and, being on the ground, he jumped at me and went on hitting me in the face about 10 times.
He says he is a man, a bad boy, but he is just a coward. I don't want to give my truth, but the truth. Once again there was a trial.
He didn't act that way just once. When he gave a knee blow to (Sergio) Aguero, he did it in his back again. I don't call that a man. He is nasty, a traitor. Sometimes I feel people roll out the red carpet for him. So I talk to remind people Joey Barton is a very violent player, far away from the image he tries to give since he joined Marseille. It wears me out to talk again about that story five years later.
We condemned Jeremy Menez, Samir Nasri or Yann M'Vila for very small things, and now I believe the French media is very forgiving with someone who committed a lot of horrible things, and the last one just in May!
No one wanted him in England, which is his own country, that means there is probably a reason."
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He said in L'Equipe: "Joey Barton is lying about what happened on the training pitch at Manchester City. It is unbelievable. I am shocked.
There was a trial at the civil courts, he pleaded guilty, and got four months' suspended prison sentence. When he is talking, he denies it, he stated I have started it all. It is fake. All my team-mates that were present during the attack gave evidence for me during the trial.
He is nasty, a traitor. Sometimes I feel people roll out the red carpet for him. So I talk to remind people Joey Barton is a very violent player, far away from the image he tries to give since he joined Marseille.
He tackled me, I replied by tackling him too. We found ourselves face-to-face. I had no intention to fight. I jostled him, but I didn't hit him. So I turned back and then he struck me to the side of the head. I lost consciousness and, being on the ground, he jumped at me and went on hitting me in the face about 10 times.
He says he is a man, a bad boy, but he is just a coward. I don't want to give my truth, but the truth. Once again there was a trial.
He didn't act that way just once. When he gave a knee blow to (Sergio) Aguero, he did it in his back again. I don't call that a man. He is nasty, a traitor. Sometimes I feel people roll out the red carpet for him. So I talk to remind people Joey Barton is a very violent player, far away from the image he tries to give since he joined Marseille. It wears me out to talk again about that story five years later.
We condemned Jeremy Menez, Samir Nasri or Yann M'Vila for very small things, and now I believe the French media is very forgiving with someone who committed a lot of horrible things, and the last one just in May!
No one wanted him in England, which is his own country, that means there is probably a reason."
More...
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