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Joey Barton may be heading back to QPR after Marseille wages impasse

   • Midfielder wants to make loan to French club permanent
   • QPR want him to move, Marseille cannot afford wages
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   Jérémy Menez Joey Barton David Beckham
   Joey Barton, centre, collides with Paris Saint-Germain's Jérémy
   Menez, left, and David Beckham during his loan spell with Marseille.
   Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

   Joey Barton may yet have to return to Queens Park Rangers in the
   Championship next season because an agreement is apparently still no
   closer between Marseille and the relegated London club to make his loan
   move permanent.

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   parent club slipped out of the Premier League.

   However, Marseille have indicated they would be unable to take on
   Barton's wages of around £65,000 a week and would need him to halve
   those salary demands for any deal to be reached.
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   Barton, who is in Northern Ireland studying for his Uefa A licence as a
   coach, is under contract at Loftus Road until 2015. He confirmed last
   week that, if no deal is reached with Marseille this summer, he could
   return to France when his current contract expires, when he will be 32.
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   Joey Barton may be heading back to QPR after Marseille wages impasse
   This article was published on the Guardian website at 17.13 BST on
   Tuesday 11 June 2013. It was last modified at 17.41 BST on Tuesday 11
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