QPR midfielder Joey Barton says he's "too clever" to be a footballer!
Barton, on-loan with Marseille, made the revelation in the French media.
Barton said: "Perhaps I shouldn't say it, but I'm maybe a little too intelligent to be a footballer."
The claims in a French newspaper attracted derision from former Arsenal and Manchester United player Mikael Silvestre.
On Twitter, he wrote: "The uneducated Joey Barton is fascinating for the degree of his stupidity, his ego and his megalomania!"