Neil Warnock: "It was just a logical thing really. I had a chat with Adel last week. Adel was straight away right about it. He appreciates how far we have come now and that we need to drive on now.
"We need somebody as our leader. He (Barton) epitomised what we are about tonight. I thought he handled himself well.
"He just grabbed hold of us. We will have our moments where things won't go so well, but you have to have that in any healthy relationship.
"I haven't seen many faults with him in the last couple of years.
"It's better for him here in London on the family side of things and on the field you will see a different type of person as well because he knows it's an exciting time with Tony coming in.
"I couldn't have asked for any more really. We only really had four training sessions together with all the new signings.
"You don't always dominate for 90 minutes but we weren't far off tonight."