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Offline BoskoDjembaSalifou

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #30 on: January 02, 2015, 05:50:28 PM »
As this loan means we almost certainly won't see Bent in a Villa shirt again i'd like to wish him well and thank him for helping keep us up 2 years running. The great "if only" of recent times. If only we'd bought Bent instead of Heskey.

Pretty much this.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #31 on: January 02, 2015, 05:53:53 PM »
When did bent last start a league game for us ?
I recall the 2-2 at Wigan on Petrov day, one of his last starts surely ? He scores a beauty out of nothing .

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #32 on: January 02, 2015, 05:54:55 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #33 on: January 02, 2015, 05:57:35 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2015, 05:58:42 PM »
Really? I might start supporting them then.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2015, 05:58:50 PM »
As others have said he hasn't been the same since the injury he sustained in the McLeish season away at Wigan.

There are plenty of issues and things to use to beat the club with at the moment but Darren Bent going to Derby on Loan isn't one of them.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #36 on: January 02, 2015, 05:59:27 PM »
Has he gone to Leeds

Off to Derby.
What a joke

How is it a joke?
Well he's taken a £24m prolific striker , mismanaged him for years (see the Hutton files and others ) and now we can't buy a goal he's got a devalued , demotivated prolific striker who now is only available to loan to championship clubs .
The club is a shambles .
I'd say this is more down to the player. Injury, form and attitude can't be blamed on Lambert.
Hutton on the other hand has taken his chance and used it.
Bent has been to other clubs and still is not the player he once was. Sad to say but true.

When was the last time he's had a run in the team to prove himself though?

Then again he'd probably struggle as much as the other strikers do. We simply don't make enough chances.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2015, 06:01:50 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.
Whatever, but it's a shame that one of the last times we've shown any ambition it ends up not working. Sums up the whole club recently. Total disappointment.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #38 on: January 02, 2015, 06:08:23 PM »
Bent's last appearance for us was thoroughly abject. I'm glad we won't see him play again for us, largely because I wouldn't want an overriding last impression of him to be negative. Despite the last 3 seasons not going his way he kept us up in Houlliers season and likewise his early goals in the McLeish season pretty much played a key role in keeping us up then too. I think despite being the record signing and being our highest earner (you'd imagine) he's probably just about justified the outlay given he's kept us up in two seasons.

I wish him well at Derby. His legs have gone and a lot of his desire but Derby create lots of chances and play good football. He may just get a second wind, and may also get another shot in the Premiership with them next season, if they choose to do a permanent deal.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #39 on: January 02, 2015, 06:08:36 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.
Whatever, but it's a shame that one of the last times we've shown any ambition it ends up not working. Sums up the whole club recently. Total disappointment.

When Lambert arrived Bent was still recovering from the injury that ended up ruining his career and I can't see any way in which that reflects badly on the Villa.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #40 on: January 02, 2015, 06:09:51 PM »
Has he gone to Leeds

Off to Derby.
What a joke

How is it a joke?
Well he's taken a £24m prolific striker , mismanaged him for years (see the Hutton files and others ) and now we can't buy a goal he's got a devalued , demotivated prolific striker who now is only available to loan to championship clubs .
The club is a shambles .

You can hardly blame Lambert for the injury Bent had at Wigan before Lambert was even at the club. Since that injury he hasn't been anything like the player we signed. You may as well blame Fulham as well as he was shit there last season.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #41 on: January 02, 2015, 06:11:58 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.
Whatever, but it's a shame that one of the last times we've shown any ambition it ends up not working. Sums up the whole club recently. Total disappointment.

I don't think it was about ambition. It was about getting us out trouble, and it did work.

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #42 on: January 02, 2015, 06:12:59 PM »
It's mismanagement on steroids. He didn't even have a squad number last season and had Jordan Bowery ahead of him just to rub salt in.
Pathetic.
So he scored on his last PL start for us ?

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #43 on: January 02, 2015, 06:13:55 PM »
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.
Whatever, but it's a shame that one of the last times we've shown any ambition it ends up not working. Sums up the whole club recently. Total disappointment.

When Lambert arrived Bent was still recovering from the injury that ended up ruining his career and I can't see any way in which that reflects badly on the Villa.
It would have suited everyone all round for Lambert to have sold Bent when he took over. People would have moaned, but if he's as past-it as people say then it would have ended up with his career fizzling out like it has anyway, right? We could have got £10mil for him from someone and would have saved us a fortune in wages. Who knows?!

"Hindsight United have never lost a match." (C) John Gregory.
Whatever, but it's a shame that one of the last times we've shown any ambition it ends up not working. Sums up the whole club recently. Total disappointment.

I don't think it was about ambition. It was about getting us out trouble, and it did work.
It worked a treat in the short term :)

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Re: Club that cannot score lets its most prolific striker out on loan again
« Reply #44 on: January 02, 2015, 06:15:21 PM »
Bent hasn't done a thing in his sub appearences this season.

So people say, why not start him? Well we've seen countless times under Lambert and McLeish, in an uncreative team the bloke barely touches the ball.

Even on his debut v Man. City I think the stat was he touched it 23 times in a much better team than we had now but of course he scored the winner so it didn't matter.

He's finished at this level but we'll probablty see him back next season with Derby.

 


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