Barton served 77 days of a six-month jail term for common assault and affray in 2008.
He claims Newcastle's hierarchy of owner Mike Ashley and managing director Derek Llambias - who he describes as "cretins" - did not pay him while he was in jail and tried to reduce his wages to a fifth of their value.
"I just wouldn't want to go to work and work for those cretins (Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias)," Barton said.
"I really want the club to do well though, as much as I don't like them. The flip side of my happiness is that if Newcastle do well then the people who I don't like are doing well.
"The people who owned the club made my position untenable. In my opinion they tried to fuck me when I was having a bad time and then they demanded loyalty three years down the line when I was playing well.
"People say to me 'Newcastle paid your wages when you were in jail', but they never did, I wasn’t paid.
"I was given a contract from Wise saying that if I didn’t sign a renogtiated deal on a lot less, on a fifth of the wages, they would sack me. That obviously came from Mike Ashley. I was sitting in a jail cell at the time. I said to my agent 'I'm not signing, fuck 'em, lety them sack me'.
"(But) legally they either had to sack me or keep me on the contract I was on. At the end of the day at that football club Mike Ashley is the ayatollah, nothing happens without his say so.
"In my opinion it came from Mike, he must have signed off on it."
He also claims Chris Hughton was sacked as Newcastle boss last year following a dispute over the players' bonus pot.
"Newcastle were the only side in Premiership history not to sign a bonus sheet," he said. "It fundamentally cost Chris his job in my opinion, because Chris couldn't get us to sign the bonus sheet.
"Here was a guy who had kept the side together when they went down to the Championship, did a fantastic job and got the side back into the Premier League. "They thought we were sports direct and should do what the subordinates at Sports Direct do.
"For me it's all about power and control. It's going really well for them at the moment, but that's more testament to the players and manager."
He was also critical of his current club, QPR. "I'm here to take this club to the next level with a lot of other players," he said. "The project and the ambition of the new owners appealed to me.
"Look, it's not ideal. There are a lot of things about the club that are lower-league mentality and need changing and we are in the process of changing that. This is an exciting time to be a QPR player."
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I'm one of the guys who interviewed Joey last night - he actually seemed pretty genuine. If if you want to hear ths full interview go to www.qprpodcast.com
Meant to put the link in... sorry Chris. It's a great interview. It is on a lot of QPR/ Newcastle forums. I'd be pretty sure the nationals will pick it up tomorrow. Hope you get a few quid for it!
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