Summary

  • Former Rangers midfielder Joey Barton 'no regrets' over Ibrox move

  • 'It was an opportunity that I couldn't pass,' he tells the BBC

  • Touchline ban for Motherwell's McGhee

  • Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers says Moussa Dembele won't be sold in January

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  1. What's on the back pages?

    • Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers insists in-demand striker Moussa Dembele is going nowhere in January. The French forward has reportedly attracted interest from a host of clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United and Liverpool
    • Former Rangers midfielder Joey Barton says he has no regrets over joining the Ibrox club and that he has no axe to grind with Mark Warburton  
    • Hibs manager Neil Lennon says his troubled 17-month stint in charge of Bolton hasn't put him off managing in England again but stresses that his priority is being successful at Easter Road
    • Lee Clark has warned his Kilmarnock players they will have no excuse for freezing on the pitch after they became the first Scottish club to take delivery of a cryo chamber. "One chamber is going to be set at -70C, the other one will be at -140C," said Clark. "The players can stand or walk about in the chamber and it is there to aid recovery. They'll spend roughly three minutes in the chamber."   

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    Kilmarnock's cryo chamberSNS

    Kilmarnock players test out the club's new cryo chamber as a chuckling Lee Clark looks on

  2. 'Scottish media built me up to be a Messi or Neymar'

    Joey Barton says he has no regrets about signing for Rangers despite an unsuccessful spell at Ibrox.

    The midfielder, 34, was banned for six weeks by Rangers following a training ground altercation in September, and was later signed off with stress.

    Barton's contract was then terminated by mutual consent in November having played just eight matches for the club.

    "I'd still have signed for Rangers - it was an opportunity that I couldn't pass," Barton said.

    "It's a great football club, it's somewhere if they get it right it is a phenomenal place - it's completely unique.

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    Former Rangers midfielder Joey Barton in action against Celticsns

    Joey Barton: "It [joining Rangers] was an opportunity that I couldn't pass..."

    Barton, who signed for the Scottish club from Burnley in May, added: "I haven't played for a super club in England, I wanted to experience a club of that size, with no disrespect to Burnley.  

    "The media were quite critical of me when I was up there," Barton told BBC Radio 5 live.

    "That's the nature of the industry when you're Joey Barton and you go and play for Rangers who are a massive club in Scotland.

    "You're going to get criticism if you don't play fantastically well and I didn't play fantastically well there, albeit I only lasted eight games.

    "The difficulty for me lay in the fact that before I went up there they kind of built me into this Neymar, Messi kind of player, which I wasn't."  

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