Joey Barton has been told to pay Eni Aluko more than £300,000 in damages and legal costs after he was sued for libel. Former England forward and pundit Aluko brought legal action against Barton over two posts he made in 2024 on social media site X. On Tuesday, the High Court heard the case had been stayed, with Barton to pay “substantial” damages and Aluko’s legal costs. Gervase de Wilde, for Aluko, said that in the two X posts Barton had wrongly claimed she had “cynically sought to exploit her