english football player

Ashley Luke Barnes ( give birth 30 October 1989 ) is an english professional football player who plays as a hitter for Premier League baseball club Burnley. Barnes previously played for Paulton Rovers, Plymouth Argyle, Oxford United, Salisbury City, Eastbourne Borough, Torquay United and Brighton & Hove Albion. He was capped by Austria at youth international level, making one appearance for their under-20 team in 2008, but his application for austrian citizenship was rejected in 2019.

Club career [edit ]

early career and Plymouth Argyle [edit ]

As a child, Barnes played for Bath Arsenal, where his teammates included colleague future professional Scott Sinclair. [ 4 ] He began his aged career as a fecund goalscorer with local baseball club Paulton Rovers of the Southern League. He had an offer trial with Championship golf club Plymouth Argyle in March 2007, and sufficiently impressed to be awarded with an eighteen-month sign by the club, having scored several goals for the reserve team. [ 5 ] He made his Plymouth debut in the foremost round of the League Cup in August 2007 against Wycombe Wanderers, coming on as a substitute for first-team regular Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. [ 6 ] He subsequently found first-team opportunities hard to come by, and was sent on lend to Conference side Oxford United in November 2007 to gain some have. [ 7 ] Barnes featured five times for Oxford United, including two FA Cup ties against Southend United, before returning to Plymouth. He was sent out on lend again in March 2008 to another conference club, this prison term to Salisbury City. [ 8 ] He featured in five league matches for the baseball club but did not find the back of the net. Barnes was loaned out for a third prison term in November 2008 to Eastbourne Borough, with teammate Daniel Smith. [ 9 ] He impressed enough for his loanword to be extended by a month, [ 10 ] before he was recalled by Plymouth Argyle in January 2009, ahead of the baseball club ‘s match against Bristol City. [ 11 ] He made his league debut for the Pilgrims against Wolves at Molineux, scoring his first goal for the club against Coventry City. His performances at the back-end of the 2008–09 season were rewarded when he signed a biennial condense extension in May 2009. [ 12 ] He joined League Two clubhouse Torquay United on loan until the end of the season in February 2010, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] but returned a calendar month subsequently having made six appearances. [ 15 ]

Brighton & Hove Albion [edit ]

Barnes subsequently joined League One club Brighton & Hove Albion on lend until the end of the season. [ 16 ] He scored on his debut against Tranmere Rovers two days later, having been introduced as a stand-in ten-spot minutes earlier. [ 17 ] On 8 July 2010, Barnes signed a biennial shrink with Brighton & Hove Albion after transferring for an undisclosed tip from Plymouth Argyle. [ 18 ] On 12 April 2011, he scored the decisive finish in a 4–3 win at home against Dagenham & Redbridge, which confirmed their promotion to the Championship. [ 19 ] Barnes finished the season as Brighton ‘s second-top goalscorer behind Glenn Murray, with 20 goals in 49 appearances. In the 2011–12 season Barnes remained a first-choice striker for Brighton ‘s render to the Championship. He finished the season as Brighton ‘s leading goalscorer with 14 goals in all competitions, 11 in the league. On 9 March 2013, Barnes received a crimson card in stop prison term against Bolton Wanderers for attempting to trip up the reviewer. He was subsequently handed a seven-match abeyance by the Football Association. [ 20 ] Fans and coach Gus Poyet were critical of Barnes for this natural process as it left the club with merely one senior striker available to play, as Craig Mackail-Smith and Will Hoskins were already injured for the rest of the season. On his return from the ban on 20 April, Barnes scored two goals in a 6–1 winnings over Blackpool and was named man of the match. [ citation needed ]

Burnley [edit ]

On 10 January 2014, Barnes joined Burnley for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal. [ 21 ] On 8 November, he scored the only goal at Turf Moor to defeat Hull City and gain Burnley ‘s first gear win of the Premier League season. [ 22 ] He scored a second goal on 13 December, the sole goal in a home plate victory over Southampton to take Burnley out of the relegation zone. [ 23 ] In November 2019, Barnes signed a newfangled condense with Burnley until June 2022. [ 24 ] In February 2015, Barnes performed a high harness on Chelsea ‘s Nemanja Matić, who was sent off for pushing him in retaliation. Barnes did not receive a booking for the challenge, and The FA confirmed that they would not take retrospective action as that was not normal operation for undertake tackles. [ 25 ] Barnes was publicly criticised by Chelsea coach José Mourinho, and said of the criticism “ I found that hilarious ”. [ 4 ]

On 24 May 2015, as relegated Burnley finished the season with a acquire over Aston Villa, Barnes was taken off with stifle cruciate ligament injuries, which would rule him out for the majority of the following campaign. [ 26 ] On 3 March 2018, he wrote himself into the history books, scoring his 16th goal in the Premier League to secure a 2–1 victory for Burnley against Everton. His 16th goal, and his 6th of the season, made him Burnley ‘s leading scorer in the Premier League since it was formed in 1992. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On 13 April 2019, Barnes was booked “ in the strange of circumstances ” for kissing defender Joe Bennett during a pit against Cardiff City. [ 29 ] On 21 January 2021, Barnes scored the only finish via a penalty in a 1–0 away league winnings over Liverpool, handing them their first league get the better of at Anfield in 68 matches and sealed the Clarets ‘ first base win at Liverpool since 1974. [ 30 ] This ended Liverpool ‘s unbeaten home discharge in the league which stretched back to April 2017. [ 31 ] With Barnes besides totalling the hundredth goal of his senior career. [ 32 ]

International career [edit ]

While born in Bath to English parents, it was believed that Barnes could qualify to represent Austria courtesy of his parental grandma, who was from Klagenfurt, if he were able to acquire austrian citizenship. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] He was spotted by austrian officials while on a pre-season enlistment with Plymouth Argyle in July 2008, and as a result he was called up to their Under-20 team to confront Switzerland on 19 August 2008, the match was part of a four nation friendly tournament featuring Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. [ 33 ] [ 35 ] Barnes made his debut as a stand-in in the 73rd infinitesimal replacing FC Wacker Innsbruck ‘s Julius Perstaller in front of 250 spectators. [ 36 ] Barnes said in April 2015 that he had had no far touch with the Austrian Football Association, and stated that he was assailable to representing either England or Austria at senior floor if given the opportunity. [ 4 ] In March 2017, whilst play in the Premier League for Burnley, he again confirmed apparent eligibility for both England and Austria, and expressed a desire to represent the Austria national senior side. [ 33 ] His shape in the 2017–18 season led to calls in Austria for him to receive a national team call-up, and director Franco Foda confirmed in March 2018 that he was monitoring Barnes. [ 37 ] Barnes started his application for naturalization as an austrian citizen in 2018, but it was ultimately abortive after it was rejected by the austrian Ministry of the Interior in February 2019, frankincense confirming his ineligibility to represent Austria. [ 38 ]

personal biography [edit ]

Barnes is from Dunkerton, Somerset, near Bath. [ 39 ] He attended Writhlington School, near Bath. [ 40 ]

career statistics [edit ]

As of match played 27 October 2021

Honours [edit ]

Brighton & Hove Albion

Burnley

References [edit ]

  • Profile Archived 4 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the Burnley F.C. website
  • Ashley Barnes at Soccerbase Edit this at Wikidata