Darren Bent - worth every penny

[The Situation]

omg lmao must read:
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=585107

Didn't realise you were a Sunderland fan Situ?

I'm not lol.

Situation-fever has spread around like Bieber-fever!

[WikiVilla]

He was excellent again today, great goals

[Colhint]

thing is I think we got the wrong guy. We could have bought better

If you think about it
Bent £18m 6 goals  thats only £3m a goal but when you think
Suarez £22.8m and 2 goals thats £11.4m per goal they must be much better goals than our Darren scored
Then theres Andy Carroll £35m and 2 goals, £17.5m per goal they must be brilliant goals
See the thing is I think we should have bought Torres, I cant wait to see a £50m goal it must be amazing

[PaulWinch again]

Darren Bent is what we've been crying out for for years. When we actually have a proper pre season next year he will propel us massively.

[Greg N'Ash]

fairplay to GH. when you look at Torres and Carroll he looks a bargain. personally if he keeps us his current goal per game ratio he can be bobbins every game for 88 minutes

[garyshawsknee]

He's the type of player we've missed for years,doesn't get involved with a lot of the play,but when theres a chance,he's there. Sure he'll break the Withe 20 goals barrier next season.

[kipeye]

Fine player, scored a hatful already and he's had two goals wrongly disallowed. His build up play is very underrated.

hs movement is brilliant. It's something that a lot of fans don't get when they say alll he does is score goals (like that was ever a bad thing). His movement opens up lanes for others. Ash being back on the wing is also helping because now defences have two very mobile players attacking them in different ways.

This is the key for me too-he opens up the defence with the runs he makes even when he is nowhere near the ball.

[lennythekad]

Work colleagues partners' dad is a Premier Lge  Lino (whose name escapes me at the mo). He says Bent is without doubt, the hardest striker in the lge to rule on due to his constant back and forwards runs off the line of defenders.

[KevinGage]

He could quite easily be sitting on 9 goals already with us.

As well as the more recent ones today and v Newcastle, he also had one chalked off v Fulham at home that was borderline.

He'll always get in those situations, and I think he enjoys playing for a club where he knows he'll be seen regularly by Capello and co.

My one concern is that he's been very good in the past scoring for struggling sides when pretty much everything goes through him. When sides try to be a bit more expansive, he's often looked out of place.

The challenge for us is to give him the service he thrives on, particularly at home.  There's things he can't do - things he's not so hot at- but that's the same for every player.

[Somniloquism]

He's the type of player we've missed for years,doesn't get involved with a lot of the play,but when theres a chance,he's there. Sure he'll break the Withe 20 goals barrier next season.

Yorke did that before he left. But I think he will get 20 league goals next season depending on how the team is changed for next season.

[garyshawsknee]

He's the type of player we've missed for years,doesn't get involved with a lot of the play,but when theres a chance,he's there. Sure he'll break the Withe 20 goals barrier next season.

Yorke did that before he left. But I think he will get 20 league goals next season depending on how the team is changed for next season.

Sorry,i meant league goals,which hasn't neen done for nearly 30 years,which is shocking for a club like ours.

[curiousorange]

I'm still not getting the Sunderland antipathy. The transfer was conducted in two days. There was no stomping about demanding to leave. It was a textbook transfer - buying club made an offer, the parent club accepted, the player agrees terms, the player moved. Yeah, it stinks when a player leaves, particularly if he was an important one, but I find their attitude incomprehensible. If it had taken all of Janaury I could perhaps understand.

But Darren Bent? Already a potential legend.

[Clark W Griswold]

Angel got something like 23 goals in his best season, although that was not all league goals. I think it was something like 16 in the league. He also got something like 16 goals in 30 games in his other good season, the one the anti Angel brigade tend to forget.

Going back to Bent though, all being well he will prove to be the best striker we have had since Yorke. He won't be quite that good but for overall impact he might not be far off.

[Ads]

If we'd have had Bent all season, then even with some of the awful defending, we'd be finishing 6th again.

[Monty]

I think this idea that he's not involved in play except when he has a chance is rubbish. Yesterday in particular he was everywhere, pressing their back-line relentlessly, coming deep to get the ball and link up play, even playing passes like that brilliant one to Ash early on. Quite apart from that, his movement is so good that he alone can occupy two defenders and create space for others. He's gone up a level from when he signed for Blunderland and is now without doubt a really terrific player, and we're reaping the rewards.