JOEY Barton said he came to Burnley to win promotion back to the Premier League, and he has seen nothing to suggest he won’t complete a Championship hat-trick.

Each of the two previous seasons the midfielder has been involved in English football’s second tier have resulted in promotion.

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Barton, who won the league with Newcastle in 2010 and went up at Wembley with QPR in the 2014 play-off final, feels the Clarets have enough to return to the Premier League following relegation last year.

And he has his eyes set on another championship medal.

“I came here and was on record as saying that I came here not to finish in the top 10 and to see my career out, I still think I’ve got a lot to offer. I’ve come her because I want to win the league,” he said. “That’s a goal for me.

“At QPR we never did that, we ended up going up via the back door of the play-offs and Burnley and Leicester were promoted.

“I’ve won it with Newcastle and the plan is to win the league again.

“We’re not fashionable - we’re Burnley and you read the papers and we get the least coverage, but that’s the way we like it.

“It’s very strange because every club I’ve been at you’ve always got lots of column inches and read about them and there’s been an expectation and a pressure. (At) Newcastle, when I was in the Championship, there was huge pressure, (at) QPR we were under pressure because we had a lot of big names in the squad, but we’re kind of going under the radar at Burnley, which I think suits us great.

“The others can have all the pressure and the coverage but the hardcore of this group have been there and done it before.

“What we’ve got with this group is very difficult to replicate, difficult to buy in.

“While we haven’t got all the household names that maybe other sides in and around us have, there’s a quiet confidence within the group.”

Burnley have not lost since Barton was included in the starting line-up seven games ago.

But he warned they cannot take their current league status, or previous promotion and Premier League experience for granted if they are to succeed this season.

“It’s a difficult league. If you take your eye off the ball for a couple of games you find yourself playing catch-up,” said the midfielder.

“There are a few teams that have made good, solid starts; teams that dropped out of the Premier League. Ourselves and Hull have made a solid start.

“We’re only just over a quarter of the way into a long hard season so from our point of view you’ve got to hit your straps at the right time. You want to hit form at the right time.

“Fair play to Hull, they’ve gone off like a scalded cat but I’d much prefer to finish like a scalded cat. The longer you sit at the top of the table you’re there to be shot at.

“We’ve made a solid return.

“There are going to be a lot more times we need to go away from home and dig out performances.

“We’ve done that a couple of times this season and we know that we’ve got that in abundance in the dressing room.”