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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: KevinGage on January 17, 2011, 01:08:23 PM
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SSN Yellow ticker thingy.
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We've offered £18 million upfront rising to £24 million apparently.
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18m for Bent!!!!! cant belive it
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Wonder if it's players + cash or straight deal.
Have to assume it's purely cash as no other players were mentioned.
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the bloke on sky never mentioned any players,must be straight cash.
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I am not having BENT on the back of my shirt !! ;)
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Well fuck my old boots. I owe the board a few apologies if this is true. And Mazrim.
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We're broke, Randy won't give Hotlips any money, sell to buy....
yaddah yaddah yaddah.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1347922/Darren-Bent-verge-24m-switch-Aston-Villa.html
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If this happens it will be fantastic, only problem is we may have alerted other clubs to him being available
And this also means that Houllier will be in charge no matter what happens until the end of the season.
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We had the chance to buy him 2 years ago for £10M - MON failed to follow up his initial interest. Now it'll cost us double that if the rumours are true! Mind you, he is a proven goalscorer we need. 32 goals in 58 games seems a good ratio to me.
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
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Well fuck my old boots. I owe the board a few apologies if this is true. And Mazrim.
Not at all old boy. Just rejoice and be happy.
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
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anyone think if this happens, Ashley young might think about staying??
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Bloody hells bells! So much for us having no money.
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Never have the words 'statement of intent' been more applicable.
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We've offered £18 million upfront rising to £24 million apparently.
It's official.
Football has gone mad.
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
*I acknowledge that the value above ignores the fact that Chelski had an offer of 20mill Euros turned down and Bayern's President Uli Hoeness only allowed Podolski to leave for the same amount they bought him for on the condition that it was to return home to Cologne, and that if he were to go anywhere else, he would cost a lot more, but it's still a hell of a difference.
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Get him signed, a signing like that could certainly change Ashley Young's mind about leaving, and also attract the likes of Charlie Adam to sign.
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Looks like he wants to come - great news, talksport say maybe ashley young will go to finance the deal but if so , then I'd still be happy to get bent.
Young has 18 month on contract but maybe we have had a good offer for him they are saying- either way bent will be huge for us.
I'd be prepared to sell young but keep him on loan till the end of season as Chelsea did with wright Phillips, and man u did with smalling.
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Wonder how we'll work it.
Will he play off Carew/ Heskey or up top on his own.
Seems to be at his best when he's the focal point of the side.
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Are we sure that it's Darren and not Marcus that Villa have bid for ?
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We're broke, Randy won't give Hotlips any money, sell to buy....
yaddah yaddah yaddah.
There will be a fair few volte faces if this comes off. Those who have criticised the board might start to look like mugs.
Any idea why he handed in a request? Is he keen to join us or pissed off up there?
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Well fuck my old boots. I owe the board a few apologies if this is true. And Mazrim.
Not at all old boy. Just rejoice and be happy.
Happy? I'd be ecstatic! I just wish we'd got him when he first went to Sunderland, but better late than never. If we can tie this up and a deal for Adam, I think it would be a great bit of January business. Might also convince Ashley Young to stay if we show some ambition.
Imagine a midfield and forward line of:
Albrighton/Downing Makoun Adam Young
Gabby Bent
That would possibly be the most exciting, well balanced forward six we've had in years and years.
Excited. (Which means that I'll be even grumpier than usual when it all goes wrong, but I'll enjoy it for the moment!)
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he's not my favourite striker, but he does score goals, and none of our other strikers do, so its got to be good news,
will only get better if Downing is going in the other direction, but dont suppose you can have everything
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He has scored goals at every club he has been, exactly what we need.
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
True. But better late than never?
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
£12 million rising to £16 million. If we get him for £18 million then this is a bloody good deal. What a statement of intent, i love Randy Lerner!
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
*I acknowledge that the value above ignores the fact that Chelski had an offer of 20mill Euros turned down and Bayern's President Uli Hoeness only allowed Podolski to leave for the same amount they bought him for on the condition that it was to return home to Cologne, and that if he were to go anywhere else, he would cost a lot more, but it's still a hell of a difference.
and that he has been shit for Koln for ages?
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if this happens, then i will be over the moon... i have rated the lad for as long as i can remember...
and despite all the "itk" rumours at the weekend, (yes, we all got the texts), as it is at the moment, it is only a "skysportsnews understands", so a large pinch of salt is to be taken before i get all excited...
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Get Bent in, oh yes.
Charlie Adams would become the new Sidwell if we signed him. So it's a no from me.
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I said it when MON was here, not signing him then was his biggest mistake.
It's cost us money and possibly playing Champions League already, but at least Randy is plugged in.
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
£12 million rising to £16 million. If we get him for £18million then this is a good deal. I love Randy Lerner!
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
Can this be counted as the 'He's shit' comment, we usually get when a player is mentioned ?
Be a right shake up for the media and the Randy doesn't have any funds argument. Wonder if its a smoke screen ;)
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Seems he handed in transfer request last night after he heard about the villa bid- makes it easier for Sunderland to appease the fans if he has asked to leave as well, the bid has been accepted and some say he is here now discussing terms , could be wrapped up today hopefully.
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We're broke, Randy won't give Hotlips any money, sell to buy....
yaddah yaddah yaddah.
There will be a fair few volte faces if this comes off. Those who have criticised the board might start to look like mugs.
Any idea why he handed in a request? Is he keen to join us or pissed off up there?
Rumours of his mother being racially abused by Sunderland fans after a defeat, but whether this has any bearing I don't know.
Maybe Randy and Hotlips just persuaded him that we are a better long-term prospect than them?
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He has handed in a transfer request after the bid from us - so surely we must have been doing the behind the scene work as he would not have handed in the request if he was not sure we could offer what he wanted etc. So I hope this is all but done and other clubs are locked out
I am getting excited about this one - and I have not been like that since Collymore signed ...(note to self probably should learn something from that alone !!)
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
*I acknowledge that the value above ignores the fact that Chelski had an offer of 20mill Euros turned down and Bayern's President Uli Hoeness only allowed Podolski to leave for the same amount they bought him for on the condition that it was to return home to Cologne, and that if he were to go anywhere else, he would cost a lot more, but it's still a hell of a difference.
and that he has been shit for Koln for ages?
and that Bent cost £12 million rising to £16 million when Sunderland bought him. Just be happy!
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Hats off to you Dave W,thought you'd lost the plot last night!
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wheres that cn*t Oliver holt and his media croonies... no money , Villa finished, MON is too good for Villa...
fook you , the lot of you...
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Looks like he wants to come - great news, talksport say maybe ashley young will go to finance the deal but if so , then I'd still be happy to get bent.
What are they basing that on?
As far as I'm aware, they didn't report this one even as a possibility. But now they know that not only will we do the deal but we'll sell Young to part finance it?
There probably are more dubious sources of info, but not many.
Sounds like wishful thinking on their part, even when other clubs do business it somehow has to relate back to Tottingham and the moaning muppets at The Lane.
I remember similar things being said soon after we spent a fair whack in the summer 2008, Phil Thompson and others said we'd have to sell to balance the books.
We didn't then and I wouldn't say it's absolutely certain that we will now. I'm sure the board are aware of the consequences of relegation. That more than anything else probably impacts on their thinking now.
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get in. Season started yesterday for us, lets push on and get into Europe now
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There's a lot and ifs on this thread.
I want to see the photo of him at the ground with the shirt before I rejoice.
Let's hope we nail the signing quicker than usual.
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
*I acknowledge that the value above ignores the fact that Chelski had an offer of 20mill Euros turned down and Bayern's President Uli Hoeness only allowed Podolski to leave for the same amount they bought him for on the condition that it was to return home to Cologne, and that if he were to go anywhere else, he would cost a lot more, but it's still a hell of a difference.
and that he has been shit for Koln for ages?
I wouldn't say he's been shit for them for ages. I'd say he struggled to settle at Bayern when he moved there at the age of 21 but still scored at a rate of about 1 in 4 during his time there.
He didn't rip any trees up last season, but is certainly starting to show more of the performances they've become used to seeing from him in the national side and he's still only 25 (turns 26 in July). Bent's 26, turning 27 next month.
I just think us potentially buying a striker our previous manager was interested in but for at least 50% if not 100% more than he was previously available is not what I was hoping for or expecting.
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GET THE FUCK IN!
Hope this goes through! Wanted to sign him for years!
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If it happens, it's a STUNNING deal - Houllier MUST have the board's total support, so the least we can do is get right behind him!!
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Rumours of his mother being racially abused by Sunderland fans after a defeat, but whether this has any bearing I don't know.
Maybe Randy and Hotlips just persuaded him that we are a better long-term prospect than them?
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He also had his car smashed up in Newcastle by Toon 'fans'.
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TAXI for Carew!!
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Losing Ashley Young would really take the shine off ithis n my opinion. I know we've still got Albrighton and Downing, but Young's main problem is that he's never had a reliable striker as a target for his end product. If we sell him for say £20m to Spurs and buy Bent for £18m, I think we'd be marginally stronger as a team, but I wouldn't be happy about it. Considering we've sold Milner in the summer, to lose our two best players wouldn't be good business.
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He also had his car smashed up in Newcastle by Toon 'fans'.
Wait until he meets the unwashed down the road then.
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Imagine a midfield and forward line of:
Albrighton/Downing Makoun Adam Young
Gabby Bent
That would possibly be the most exciting, well balanced forward six we've had in years and years.
Excited. (Which means that I'll be even grumpier than usual when it all goes wrong, but I'll enjoy it for the moment!)
Throw in Delph, Bannan, Weimman, Delfouneso and Gardner into the picture too, and it looks even better
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this Ash Young going is only totenham loving media twats saying Young must be off... lets just see.. lasty week these wankers said we aint got no money thats why MON left, they know fook all...
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I'd rather spend the money abroad than buy someone we should have got 18 months ago for 50% more than he cost then. Having watched Luksa Podolski who cost 10million Euros* score for FC Köln yesterday, it shows quite how overpriced English footballers inexplicably are.
Can this be counted as the 'He's shit' comment, we usually get when a player is mentioned ?
No, not at all. I used to think he was and possibly would have said that a few years ago, but I think he's a natural striker and the first English player that came to mind as gabby skied his (nicely created) chance in the first minute yesterday.
I just don't understand the astronomical fees for English players. Back in the day, when you had to have a certain number of British players for European competitions maybe, but for all the posturing about the rules changing to something like that again now, I don't see it happening and so don't understand it.
Looks like when he went to Sunderland, it was up to £16.5mill (http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/benttransferstockexchangeannouncement050809.html) and the rumoured initial fee was nearer £10mill.
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The media will say we have to sell Young now as it fits in with their idea that Randy has got no money.
Just hope it convinces Ashley to stay now to totally bollox up that notion.
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Can't we give them Ireland as a part x change. I can't my head round this one!
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Major tip of the hat to Mr Dave Woodhall for the link last night!!!
Clearly big decision for sunderland now but obviously Bent is not happy at Sunderland following the arrival of Gyan. Slight worry is he does seem to move clubs often but he is exactly what we need at the moment.
Randy has restored my faith with this bid. Transfer fees were never the issue with O'neill. It was about wages being outlayed every week on players who werent being played beye reo-coker sidwell but to name a few.
If bent arrives carew will go along with sidwell and possibly warnock to pay the wages. Good sense from the club.
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
MON could have got Keane and McGeady for that money. What is this fool doing buying a first rate striker when we could have got two duffers instead. If Houllier gets to spend that sort of money on Bent then it will just show how RAL had lost his confidence in MON's transfer dealings.
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The game against Blose on Sunday was as clear a demonstration as you could hope for that our team is in dire need of a striker. Even with Heskey we look more like the business, but a proven professional of the calibre of Bent should dramatically improve our position in the League.
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wheres that cn*t Oliver holt and his media croonies... no money , Villa finished, MON is too good for Villa...
fook you , the lot of you...
Totally agree - fuck all of them and MON
Well done Randy, Houllier and lets not forget the business side in Mr Paul Faulkener
IT just goes to show that i would rather we do our business like this than the spivs at Spurs and co spouting their collective traps off in the press
I am very very excited - this guy has a superb scoring record
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First class deal if it goes ahead especially if Downing is part of the deal the other way.
Clearly shows our intent in no uncertain terms!
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Randy has restored my faith with this bid. Transfer fees were never the issue with O'neill. It was about wages being outlayed every week on players who werent being played beye reo-coker sidwell but to name a few.
If bent arrives carew will go along with sidwell and possibly warnock to pay the wages. Good sense from the club.
might of us knew it, its just the media twat who lick MON's arse and need to fill their papers...
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I don't care how much we pay. If we sign Bent, I'll be delighted. Just what we need right now. It would then put a big onus on Houllier to start turning things around. The defence is looking a little tighter of alate, and the addition of a frontman who can convert some of our chances too, and we will start to climb the table. Long term, we're gonna always have more potential than Sunderland in all honesty. Next season who's to say we don't kick back up the table to top 6 again? Whether it's with GED, I doubt, but tyo be fair to him, he's made two decent signings so far, and adding Bent would be quite a coup, even for that price.
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The only people saying Young's financing this are those who've forgotten that we sold Milner for a small fortune 5 months ago.
Probably the same cockney pricks who pop up on SSN and TowkeSpowte all the time saying "Birminum".
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Come on Bent, get yourself down here, you'll love it.
This could be the start of something very good. If only Houllier was here pre summer....... MON you are a arse.
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£10 million Plus Ireland - someone over on VT is saying.
if so....fucking result !!!!!!!
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This could be the sort of signing that keeps Ashley Young at the club
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wheres that cn*t Oliver holt and his media croonies... no money , Villa finished, MON is too good for Villa...
fook you , the lot of you...
Totally agree - fuck all of them and MON
Well done Randy, Houllier and lets not forget the business side in Mr Paul Faulkener
IT just goes to show that i would rather we do our business like this than the spivs at Spurs and co spouting their collective traps off in the press
I am very very excited - this guy has a superb scoring record
I don't think I could have put that any better!!!
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Can't see anyone matching our bid to be honest , the player seems to want to come and although Sunderland fans on sky are upset they accept it was a good deal for them- he clearly sees villa as a step up and I'm delighted.
Bent will convert a load of the chances that heskey and gabby have missed , and with a prolific scorer we will soon rise up the table- I'd imagine the players are excited too.
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Darren Bent is as fast as lightning
Darren Bent is claret and blue
He gets the ball he scores a goal
He'll fucking murder you!
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Bloody hell, if it is 10 million plus Ireland we should be arrested for daylight robbery.
Where the fuck did this all come from...We might score a goal YAY!!!!!!
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Yep we have £19m in the account from the sale of Milner and Garnder, plus the wage savings from Sidwell, Harewood, Milner etc...
We were never skint!
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Maybe Bruce wants Omar Cummings.. ;-D
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Just a thought, but maybe when Houllier came in he told Ashley Young what he wanted to do and the sort of players he was after. Ash said "prove it" and that is why he has put off signing a new deal. This sort of signing could tie him down.
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I like the fact that the various media outlets are all in complete shock, because they have no clue about the financial situation at Villa.
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£10 million Plus Ireland - someone over on VT is saying.
if so....fucking result !!!!!!!
Brilliant if so, absolutely top notch.....win, win as they say! Though you put it better I think......
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I don't care how much we pay. If we sign Bent, I'll be delighted. Just what we need right now. It would then put a big onus on Houllier to start turning things around. The defence is looking a little tighter of alate, and the addition of a frontman who can convert some of our chances too, and we will start to climb the table. Long term, we're gonna always have more potential than Sunderland in all honesty. Next season who's to say we don't kick back up the table to top 6 again? Whether it's with GED, I doubt, but tyo be fair to him, he's made two decent signings so far, and adding Bent would be quite a coup, even for that price.
I agree Tommy, you think of all the money wasted on Sidwell,Shorey,Davis and Beye, shall I go on , a goalscorer as good as Bent is a bargain at that price...
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Darren Bents an Villan
he plays in claret and blue
and when he gets the ball
He'll fucking murder you!
Impoved
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Its a lot of dough but fook it
Come on Bent
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Doubt Ireland is part of the deal. I think the deal is 18Million and then add on's. Though i think they will buy Stephen Ireland outright as we seen with the Milner deal a swap is very complex.
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I like the way Ireland is always portrayed as £8m currency. Wonder what i'd get if I asked the bank to take out £8m out of my account? (If i had that)
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It's a shame he'll be cup tied in the FA Cup.
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its just a novelty to get linked with decent players again. Ive always thought Bent would be a good signing and we should have gone for him when he left spurs i dont think he will ever be an England striker but he will get any team 20+ goals hope this comes off
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do you think he will shave his beard now..
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I've never doubted Randy Lerner.
I wouldn't have trusted MON with £18m.
What a shame we didn't get him when he was going for £12m.
We all wanted him. Shame MON didn't at the time. Still better late than never. This will make a massive, massive difference to who we are over the next few years. If this comes off it will be so huge. Delighted about this.
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If this goes through, along with being a great signing and a mark of intent from the club, I can't help hoping it will also demonstrate to the world what a petulant little shithead O'Neiil is ....... with his mummy I don't like the sweeties you bought me yesterday, I want some more attitude!! (at this point MON lies on floor and refuses to go to school). Please please Porno Dwarf sign the cock...
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He'll be great in the Championship too ;-)
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Sunderland Echo reckon the bid hasn't yet been accepted.
link (http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/national-sport/bent_hands_in_transfer_request_1_2937965)
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If it comes off, this will be the ballsiest transfer we've pulled off in a long time, perhaps ever in my time supporting the club. As often happens with Villa, I hope there isn't a downside (i.e. Young going), but it's exciting waiting to see what happens. I think he'd be an ideal addition, and another step in the right direction. Would shut those fucking press monkeys up as well. A big brass-balled statement of intent. Nice one Villa.
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Haven't seen or heard anything about Ireland in the media, they all seem to be going with £18m bid . If ash could be tied to a new contract even better, let's hope now randy has backed his man that the fans get off houlliers back and give him a chance- the quality of players he is chasing are very exciting.
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He'll be great in the Championship too ;-)
Get out ! (wink)
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Darren Bent is as fast as lightning
Darren Bent is claret and blue
He gets the ball he scores a goal
He'll fucking murder you!
I like it.
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wheres that cn*t Oliver holt and his media croonies... no money , Villa finished, MON is too good for Villa...
fook you , the lot of you...
Well, the Daily Mail still had to have a little dig...
[i[For Aston Villa fans there will be mixed feelings.
With Martin O’Neill also departing the club in the summer due to a lack of support in the transfer market, could this mark a change of policy for owner Randy Lerner?
If so, Villa fans will be ruing the loss of their charismatic manager in the summer and subsequent stagnation under Gerard Houllier.[/i]
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I am absolutely delighted if we get Bent,
BUT 18 rising to 24 million is too much money. Let's just hope they buy Ireland.
I just feel that if we pay that much for him and he doesn't score goals straight away there will be alot of pressure on him and Villa!
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What does this do for our "Villa are skint" perception in the media, and "Randy isn't committed" perception among some of our "supporters"?
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he is in the birmingham area waiting for sunderland to let him start talking to villa
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Bent I'm Birmingham now according to sky, Sunderland turned down bid and then bent asked for transfer when he heard villa had bid so Sunderland reluctantly accepted bid of £18m plus add ons.
Bent in brum and awaiting permission to discuss terms and medical.
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SSN at Bodymoor Heath now
Apparently, Bent is in the Birmingham area awaiting permission from Sunderland to travel to BH to open talks
We put in a bid at the weekend which was refused and when Bent heard about it, he submitted a transfer request...
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Cough.....Les Ferdinand... cough
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I for one am very happy with this bid obviously and the fact the M'ON wasn't given any more money to waste.
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The bid is too low according to Sunderland local media.
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Cough.....Les Ferdinand... cough
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ;)
Happy thoughts Ozz. Happy thoughts only
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Some twattish comments being emailed in on SSN mind you - someone saying O'Neill should have been given this sort of money. Yer right, to buy Kevin Nolan, Kevin Davies and Robbie Keane no doubt...
Great to hear Villa fans emailing in from all over the country though....reinforces our image as a BIG club
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Sunderland Echo reporting bid hasn't been accepted and that they think he's worth a lot more.
Here (http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/darren_bent_asks_to_leave_sunderland_after_derby_but_villa_18m_bid_not_enough_1_2937961)
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I think it is a blessing he went to Sunderland after Spurs. He wasnt well received at WHL, despite the goals he scored. So a £12m move to Sunderland was make or break. He could have lost confidence and failed to live up to the price tag. But instead, he proved Harry wrong and scored a bucketload of goals.
He should be able to cope with an £18m price tag playing for us. I'm feeling very good about it.
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It'll be accepted if he wants to go.
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he is in the birmingham area waiting for sunderland to let him start talking to villa
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I thought this 2nd post on Small Heath Alliance was actually quite funny.
£18m to Vile. Wonder if Houlier will play him on the wing too.
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Pages:123›Message ListKaje13:00, Monday 17 January 2011That'd be a fantastic piece of business for us. He hasn't really broken into the team whilst on loan at Wolves, so if Houllier is happy to fork out for him then I say sell him and use the money ASAP.
Oh...wait...
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great stuff. The site is back up. Has he taken his photo next to a goalpost at Bodymoor yet?
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according to sky reporter at bodymoor it has been accepted, was rejected but when bent told them he wanted to go they accepted the bid reluctantly, although sky move the goalposts all the time , they change their story every few minutes.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
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During the down time here popped over to VT. Interesting post on there
"Also what was interesting was that something was on the cards last August but Sunderland managed to keep him happy for the time being.
Shows also that MON didn't leave because a lack of funds.......it was a row over wage demands & accountability. MON wanted complete control or else."The else" being carried through when it actually wasn't expected to be accepted quite so easily."
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according to sky reporter at bodymoor it has been accepted, was rejected but when bent told them he wanted to go they accepted the bid reluctantly.
the reporter aint David Craig by anychance is it ..
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I think the price is somewhat irrelevant. The main thing is we will be bringing in a high quality player that has a good record of notching up Premier league goals. I'm all for it.
It will be interesting to see how Houllier plans on utilising Gabby, Emile and Bent. I hope he doesn't persist in shifting Gabby out on the wing where he is completely wasted. Where has the talk of Downing going the other way stemmed from?
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according to sky reporter at bodymoor it has been accepted, was rejected but when bent told them he wanted to go they accepted the bid reluctantly.
the reporter aint David Craig by anychance is it ..
Apparently it's Craig David. He's only ever there on Monday's doesn't bother with Wednesday or Thursdays
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Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Would you have trusted him with it? I wouldn't have left him alone with my lunch money.
If he does take over at Wrist Ham, we should make a £15m bid for Parker, wait for the dildo sellers to accept and then withdraw it. Just to piss him off.
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david craig at sunderland said bent wanted to go in august but they persuaded him to stay, at least him asking to leave makes it easier to sell him and they are getting a fair price , great signing.
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I'm trying not to get excited just yet, I struggle to see this going through just as its Houllier making this happen, or trying too! Lets hope that it happens, its it does...my word. A top signing. Since 2005 only 2 other strikers have scored more goals than Darren...nuff said.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
Apparently if you follow what the Chairman and Chief Exec want you to do, and who share the same vision, you get money. I don't the goals of the club have changed, and we will end up selling a number of our older higher wage players between now and the summer. But we''ll replace them with top quality players worthy of those salaries and very promising kids.
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I'm trying not to get excited just yet, I struggle to see this going through just as its Houllier making this happen, or trying too!
What exactly does that mean? So far he's wanted five players, signed three of them and another failed a medical.
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Cough.....Les Ferdinand... cough
Don't even go there! The only club that could possibly scupper this is Liverpool, as they need a striker as much as us. Can't see them offering the money that we have though.
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Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Would you have trusted him with it? I wouldn't have left him alone with my lunch money.
If he does take over at Wrist Ham, we should make a £15m bid for Parker, wait for the dildo sellers to accept and then withdraw it. Just to piss him off.
I dread to think what M'ON would have done with that money. Mcgeady and Keane, shudder.
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according to sky reporter at bodymoor it has been accepted, was rejected but when bent told them he wanted to go they accepted the bid reluctantly.
the reporter aint David Craig by anychance is it ..
Apparently it's Craig David. He's only ever there on Monday's doesn't bother with Wednesday or Thursdays
Class ;D
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Looks like he wants to come - great news, talksport say maybe ashley young will go to finance the deal but if so , then I'd still be happy to get bent.
What are they basing that on?
I remember similar things being said soon after we spent a fair whack in the summer 2008, Phil Thompson and others said we'd have to sell to balance the books.
They all know fuck all. They just recycle words they have picked up in the media. What does that big nose twat know about re-balancing finances!
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If we pay £18m for Bent, this isn't an act of great benovolence by Lerner it's simply an illustration of the dire straits we're in. We can't afford to get relegated and we clearly need a striker, just like we did last summer before we got into this mess. Perhaps the club didn't think we needed one last August but not to buy one now would be negligence. Hopefully it's sunk in that not only to stay in the top six, but just to avoid the risk of going down in this league, you need to continually invest.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
I hope he stays as he has been one of our steadier players.
UTV
The Doc
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It's the recycling of the James Milner money is it not.
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I'm trying not to get excited just yet, I struggle to see this going through just as its Houllier making this happen, or trying too!
What exactly does that mean? So far he's wanted five players, signed three of them and another failed a medical.
Meaning that I think that D Bent is a top top signing. The Makoun, still unsure about yet another defensive CM. Pires, move on and I'll him off with the Walker signing, that is top. Ive just never seen a target like a Bent who I very admire go through. Just not counting the chickens, etc.
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Really hope this works out, like many clubs we need a striker.
Too expensive of course at first view, but if he weighs in with the goals worth every penny.
Just a byline to all this, if they didn't trust MON with the money, they should've sacked him in May. But it may be, as I always suspected, a lot more than just a questions of funds and more a question of power.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
I hope he stays as he has been one of our steadier players.
UTV
The Doc
I agree, Downing has been great. Without his goals and assists we'd be in even more shit. Why are people so keen to ged rid of him???
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I'm trying not to get excited just yet, I struggle to see this going through just as its Houllier making this happen, or trying too!
What exactly does that mean? So far he's wanted five players, signed three of them and another failed a medical.
You also get the feeling that the Villa hierarchy are working as a team, rather than not all waiting to see if it is OK with MON.
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I'm trying not to get excited just yet, I struggle to see this going through just as its Houllier making this happen, or trying too!
What exactly does that mean? So far he's wanted five players, signed three of them and another failed a medical.
Meaning that I think that D Bent is a top top signing. The Makoun, still unsure about yet another defensive CM. Pires, move on and I'll him off with the Walker signing, that is top. Ive just never seen a target like a Bent who I very admire go through. Just not counting the chickens, etc.
That's fine, but one thing we've seen so far is that when Gerard wants a player, more often than not he's got him.
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It's the recycling of the James Milner money is it not.
it is still real, actual money being spent - if we hadn't spent it, it'd be in the hands of our tightarse, won't-invest chairman.
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can see sunderland going for keane now , thatll shut up blues. usually pete colley at bodymoor heath but a new reporter today there.
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I know he has a great record in the prem but isn't he the penalty taker for them? Still a great signing if it comes through
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Pleased that we are in for a proven goal scorer however a little surprised that we are paying £18m+. I am sure with Rene's European knowledge we could have picked up a very good forward for far less than that however the problem there is that that sort of players needs a season or so to adjust to the PL pace. So I assume the big money is for the fact that we are buying a finished artcle?
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It's the recycling of the James Milner money is it not.
it is still real, actual money being spent - if we hadn't spent it, it'd be in the hands of our tightarse, won't-invest chairman.
Yes don't get me wrong, I wasn't having a go. Just people saying we haven't got the money. No one in the club ever actually came out and said we would not reinvest the Milner money - I genuinely always thought we would. It was more a question of when and who was going to be trusted with it.
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So I assume the big money is for the fact that we are buying a finished artcle?
One would assume so. And, hopefully, if not a guarantee then a very good chance of many goals to follow.
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That's fine, but one thing we've seen so far is that when Gerard wants a player, more often than not he's got him.
I'm holding that against you Dave, meaning right now I get the Frosty-Jack on Ice!
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I know he has a great record in the prem but isn't he the penalty taker for them? Still a great signing if it comes through
His penalty taking style makes you crinje!
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Looks like he wants to come - great news, talksport say maybe ashley young will go to finance the deal but if so , then I'd still be happy to get bent.
Ha ha haaaaaaa! They will literally say anything won't they? I've heard it all now.
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We don't need anyone to finance the deal. We've just sold Steve Sidwell. :-)
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Darren Bent
299 games 172 goals
£18m+ is good business, considering the prices some strikers move for, Adebayor (Man Citeh money and all that taken into account)...
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2 things for me.
1st........Albrighton/AYoungs/Downing crosses with Bent on the end of them.Should be very very exciting, an out and out goalscorer who plays on the shoulder,Something we have been lacking for a long time.
2ns Gabby.....how does he react, where does he fit in?
Overall i'm pleasantly surprised.No player swaps, money up front, a large fee, a key player.
Well done Randy Lerner.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
I hope he stays as he has been one of our steadier players.
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The Doc
I agree, Downing has been great. Without his goals and assists we'd be in even more shit. Why are people so keen to ged rid of him???
I do not want to see Downing go at all, Is this part of the deal?
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Meaning that I think that D Bent is a top top signing. The Makoun, still unsure about yet another defensive CM. Pires, move on and I'll him off with the Walker signing, that is top. Ive just never seen a target like a Bent who I very admire go through. Just not counting the chickens, etc.
Is it me or does that sound like Norman Collier?
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BBC Radio 5 live football correspondent Ian Dennis said he understood that the offer from Villa was put forward towards the end of last week. "I understand it was cash up front which is an enormous show of faith by Randy Lerner in Gerard Houllier," he said.
And hopefully that means Young and Downing stay put. The cost will be irrelevant if we stay up.
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I do not want to see Downing go at all, Is this part of the deal?
I've not seen any indication that Downing is going anywhere. BBC are saying the deal is cash up-front.
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We've offered £18 million upfront rising to £24 million apparently.
It's official.
Football has gone mad.
Its official. FACT. The air is thick with regurgitated posting cliches.
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Gabby and Bent up front is pretty good to be honest.
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
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i wonder what holloway maks of the fact that some half arsed club as he called us can afford to spend more on one player than his entire squad cost?
lets hope we can tie this up and then get onto the next target, where are the rumours coming from that liverpool want downing?
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
Me for one, I've always wanted him, I thought we should have gone in when Spuds got rid
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Cash up front is an immense show of faith.
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Its going to be rejected according to Sunderland local press. Can see this one dragging!!!
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A future strike force of Bent, Gabby and Delfouneso sounds good to me. With Heskey as cover/a different option off the bench.
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
Me for one, I've always wanted him, I thought we should have gone in when Spuds got rid
Me too. I think we'd maybe have sneaked a top 4 place if we'd bought him.
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Its going to be rejected according to Sunderland local press. Can see this one dragging!!!
If it had been rejected out of hand, we'd have heard about it officially, I think.
Bent having handed in a transfer request and had it accepted suggests that things are advanced, so I suspect it is beyond simply rejecting a bid.
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
Me. And the summer before that, and before that, and the one before that...etc. I've wanted us to sign him since he was at the Tractors.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
Me for one, I've always wanted him, I thought we should have gone in when Spuds got rid
Yep, wanted him for years.
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So much for my lack of addiction! I've been reading H&V more than working!
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
Me for one, I've always wanted him, I thought we should have gone in when Spuds got rid
Me too. I think we'd maybe have sneaked a top 4 place if we'd bought him.
You'd have to build an attack around him, thus a team, as he can't make chances for himself. Abd he'd fit into the team seeing how he takes his pens. He'll do for us now as his goals will stave off any relegation threat - you'd think, but as for being good enough for what we were trying to achieve once? Nowhere near good enough.
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Its going to be rejected according to Sunderland local press. Can see this one dragging!!!
If it had been rejected out of hand, we'd have heard about it officially, I think.
Bent having handed in a transfer request and had it accepted suggests that things are advanced, so I suspect it is beyond simply rejecting a bid.
Agreed I suspect if he has requested a transfer they'll have accepted it.
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i wonder what holloway maks of the fact that some half arsed club as he called us can afford to spend more on one player than his entire squad cost?
lets hope we can tie this up and then get onto the next target, where are the rumours coming from that liverpool want downing?
Bollocks to Holloway, he's a massive tit. He was giving out to Rangers over Charlie Adam a couple of days ago as well.
The Liverpool rumours are just media disbelief that we have any cash IMO, they'll say all sorts of shite.
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There aren't many clubs that could refuse £18m in cash...
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http://www.safc.com/news/20110117/darren-bent-club-statement_2256213_2269001
A comprehensive club statement from Sunderland AFC concerning the future of Darren Bent.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Ive written it off to be honest. I havent got a shagging thing done since 11.
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BBC Radio 5 live football correspondent Ian Dennis said he understood that the offer from Villa was put forward towards the end of last week. "I understand it was cash up front which is an enormous show of faith by Randy Lerner in Gerard Houllier," he said.
And hopefully that means Young and Downing stay put. The cost will be irrelevant if we stay up.
Couldn't agree more. Hopefully the speed and quality of the signings Houllier is making in his first transfer window - and let's remember January is supposed to be notoriously difficult to do quality business - will convince Ash to sign a new contract. And I can't understand why some posters are keen to get rid of Downing - he's been a bit powder puff at times but he was our best player in the first half of the season. We need to keep players like Ash and Downing and get rid of the shirkers like Ireland and Carew, and the never-going-to-make-its like Osborne, Salifou and Beye, along with the already departed Sidders
As for Bent - I wanted him at Villa when 'Onest 'Enry thought his wife Sarrndra was a better striker than Bent, and I have got everything crossed that the deal will go through. He is exactly what we need and if it's tied up I for one will take my hat off to Houllier.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Yes, and I need to finish this essay for tomorrow afternoon. I'm halfway through but just can't tear myself away from here.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Yep - I'm on deadline too ???
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http://www.safc.com/news/20110117/darren-bent-club-statement_2256213_2269001
A comprehensive club statement from Sunderland AFC concerning the future of Darren Bent.
Wow. Verbosity verbiage.
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Well that clarrifies things, thanks SAFC.
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Sky said earlier that offer was rejected but after bent found out and requested to leave , the Sunderland board have reluctantly accepted a bid of £18m rising to possibly £24m with add ons.
Hasn't been officially confirmed yet and after skys recent o neill story I wouldn't take it as gospel until villa or Sunderland release a statement.
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They should have put a sad smiley face on the end of it.
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I'm just a lazy sod to be honest. When I'm at work I sit on tinternet and do feck all anyway. Today is the justification for the other 250 or so days in the year I wait for something to happen.
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I think he is just the type of player we have been after for long time an out and out goalscorer i was over the moon when i heard the news i just hope the deal comes off.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Ive written it off to be honest. I havent got a shagging thing done since 11.
It's approaching 11am here. Apparently I have a presentation to make to my boss in 6 minutes. It's going to be a little tricky for the next 2 hours or so seeing as I've done fuck all in terms of preparation since I got to work. Wish me luck. Bastard Villa breaking their transfer record today.
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True about the timing of that statement, Sunderland would have confirmed that they have rejected a bid.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Ive written it off to be honest. I havent got a shagging thing done since 11.
Likewise. I was quite productive this morning, but, since lunch...
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If they'd rejected it, they'd have said.
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Done nothing. This is very frustrating
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Is everyone else finding it nigh on impossible to get any work done today?
Done nothing. This is very frustrating
Ditto
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Stephen Ireland has done more work than anyone on here this afternoon.
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How many of us would have wanted Bent last summer?
I'd like to say this was a statement of financial intent, but with the milner money not yet spent and time for us to sell an asset or two I guess the jury's out until 31.1.11.
Me for one, I've always wanted him, I thought we should have gone in when Spuds got rid
Me too. I think we'd maybe have sneaked a top 4 place if we'd bought him.
You'd have to build an attack around him, thus a team, as he can't make chances for himself. Abd he'd fit into the team seeing how he takes his pens. He'll do for us now as his goals will stave off any relegation threat - you'd think, but as for being good enough for what we were trying to achieve once? Nowhere near good enough.
Yes, read somewhere that his form has dipped since Andy reid was out of their team - the player who set up most of his goals. If we get rid of Downing or Young this move will make no sense, we really need playmakers to supply him.
And agreed, when we were trying to push on into CL, he wasn't the player for us to take the step up. He is however a player to push us towards UEFA Cup qualification.
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Darren Bent
299 games 172 goals
£18m+ is good business, considering the prices some strikers move for, Adebayor (Man Citeh money and all that taken into account)...
Man City fees are not to be considerd in any real wold deal.
By the way welcome juanpablojesusallahmoses however on a technical hierarchy note may be you should not mix allah with jesus and moses! jesusmohammedmoses is better!
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...and they wanted a player or two, plus money, what would you offer?
I'd go cash only.
If they'd take Beye and/or Warnock that would be ideal, but can't think of anyone else to ship out.
Maybe Reo-Coker (2m - contract almost up) Warnock (6m) and 10m.
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Darren Bent
299 games 172 goals
£18m+ is good business, considering the prices some strikers move for, Adebayor (Man Citeh money and all that taken into account)...
Man City fees are not to be considerd in any real wold deal.
By the way welcome juanpablojesusallahmoses however on a technical hierarchy note may be you should not mix allah with jesus and moses! jesusmohammedmoses is better!
Unless you're a christian then you can mix jesus and allah. Not Moses though, you're right.
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They'd be welcome to any of the following:
Beye, NRC, Warnock, Ireland, Petrov, Heskey.
I'd rather it was just £18m cash though.
Or £20m and Pires.
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Stephen Ireland has done more work than anyone on here this afternoon.
That is not true. Most of us woke up this morning!
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Sky man at bodymoor says bent in nearby hotel, also says that villa made clear downing is going nowhere.
Straight cash offer, no other players involved.
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the north east correspondant looked really annoyed and like he was about to cry...
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NO to Heskey until the Summer
They can have Carew, Beye, Warnock or Ireland.
Bruce is not a complete fuckwit though, he won't want any of them.
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Unless you're a christian then you can mix jesus and allah. Not Moses though, you're right.
But he is not the son...no let's not start THAT debate!
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Sky man at bodymoor says bent in nearby hotel,
I've got a mate who's sisters boyfriend works at the Belfry......
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Forgot about Ireland. I don't think he's a not to be touched with a barge pole type signing though. Any manager has an ego and they would probably think they are the ones to get the player that was at Man City performing again. Most managers would jump at the chance of getting Ireland.
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Sky man at bodymoor says bent in nearby hotel,
I've got a mate who's sisters boyfriend works at the Belfry......
That means shit all. I actually once stayed in a hotel. Who else has got a closer link to the action?
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I'm in the Jewellery Quarter right now.
Number of hours been here today: 7
Number of Darren Bents spotted: 0
I can confirm, he is not in Hockley Birmingham's Creative Quarter.
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Sunderland full board are meeting now to consider whether to give bent permission to speak to villa-houllier is at bodymoor Heath, bent at a nearby hotel, blues announce robbie keane will not be joining them.
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How fucking annoying that we could have signed him when MON was here for a lot less.
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He wouldn't have been good enough for us then.
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Sunderland full board are meeting now to consider whether to give bent permission to speak to villa-houllier is at bodymoor Heath.
The die is cast.
He wants out, once the player plays his face up, the end is nigh.
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Wonder if he handed in his transfer request when he heard David Miliband was thinking of joining the board up there? ;)
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Sky man at bodymoor says bent in nearby hotel,
I've got a mate who's sisters boyfriend works at the Belfry......
That means shit all. I actually once stayed in a hotel. Who else has got a closer link to the action?
I am near the Hilton Metropole Hotel. Number of Darren Bents spotted zero. Number of posh twats going into the hotel 235.
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MON to West Ham would see Ireland as a good signing maybe? I wouldnt sell Heskey over the summer either
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Tell them to f in hurry up. I have pulled out of 1 work meeting earlier, missed an audio call completely at 4 and now need to decide what to do with the meeting scheduled at 5.
Do they not realise that British Motor Industry is going down the pan whilst we wait for the SAFC board to accept the inevitable?
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Sorry lads just can't get excited at all about this. Should we really be creaming ourselves over a player whom the next England manager was willing to take a 6.5 million pound loss on when moving him on from Spurs to Slumberland? I think not, Harry is no fool and he knows the true value of a player.
I just cant help thinking that this 18/24 million pounds could be so much better spent somewhere within the boundaries of continental Europe.
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Bent Signs.
(http://www.johmard.com/SVPOA/images/CoH_Bent%20Sign.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/440308423_823520a6f8_z.jpg)
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How do people know what the Sunderland board are doing? Why have they allowed him to travel to Birmingham in the first place for talks?
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Jellyface does not always make the best decisions for the team, ask Portsmouth, Wet Spam and Southampton. He also said his wife could score more goals, and resigned Robbie-I-Love-Money Keane.
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Sorry lads just can't get excited at all about this. Should we really be creaming ourselves over a player whom the next England manager was willing to take a 6.5 million pound loss on when moving him on from Spurs to Slumberland? I think not, Harry is no fool and if he knows the true value of a player.
I just cant help thinking that this 18/24 million pounds could be so much better spent somewhere within the boundaries of continental Europe.
Harry is not on the boat!
Bent is better than Crouch and has better scoring record than Defoe and plays more games less injury prone.
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Biggest signing since Dean Saunders?
Collywobbes maybe, but even pre breakdown that one always looked like a gamble. All be it a gamble worth taking.
But this bloke pretty much guarantees goals and doesn't come with a track record of causing problems in training, coasting through matches when it doesn't suit him and so on.
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I like the way our website is so up to date on today's news.
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There 580 guests on line here ...spooky!
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We don't even have Makoun listed yet in the player profiles on the OS, I doubt they'll be headlining with what is still -at this stage- speculation.
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How do people know what the Sunderland board are doing? Why have they allowed him to travel to Birmingham in the first place for talks?
Because after training finshes he can get in his car and go wherever he likes.
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I like the way our website is so up to date on today's news.
They never announce anything until it's been completed. There's not much to announce at the moment.
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I can't believe this will happen. Really hope I'm wrong though.
If it does come off I think it would give the whole team a lift, beyond the direct impact of Bent as a player, and that would be worth £18m without a doubt.
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I'd go £15m + Ireland
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The fact that this is the biggest potential signing in the club's history and it's all over every news site you think they may have made some comment, but alas no.
Good jobs H&V is here!
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Biggest signing since Dean Saunders?
Collywobbes maybe, but even pre breakdown that one always looked like a gamble. All be it a gamble worth taking.
But this bloke pretty much guarantees goals and doesn't come with a track record of causing problems in training, coasting through matches when it doesn't suit him and so on.
I'd agree with that on the Deano signing, there was an air of inevitability about the Stan signing, this one has come out of nowhere.
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I'd rather the club sorted out getting him here before they worry about putting it on the website.
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Biggest signing since Dean Saunders?
Collywobbes maybe, but even pre breakdown that one always looked like a gamble. All be it a gamble worth taking.
But this bloke pretty much guarantees goals and doesn't come with a track record of causing problems in training, coasting through matches when it doesn't suit him and so on.
I'd agree with that on the Deano signing, there was an air of inevitability about the Stan signing, this one has come out of nowhere.
Baros?
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The club will not say anything until a fee has been agreed. They don't want to go down the 'a fee has been agreed for Craig Bellamy' fiasco again.
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Biggest signing since Dean Saunders?
Collywobbes maybe, but even pre breakdown that one always looked like a gamble. All be it a gamble worth taking.
But this bloke pretty much guarantees goals and doesn't come with a track record of causing problems in training, coasting through matches when it doesn't suit him and so on.
I'd agree with that on the Deano signing, there was an air of inevitability about the Stan signing, this one has come out of nowhere.
Baros?
I'd have said the Colymore signing in terms of what it symbolised rather than the player in question
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We've offered over the odds for him (imo) but he is just the type of player
we need now and have done for several seasons.........natural goal scorer
Hopefully the deal will be struck and subsequent contract details followed
by ok medical will allow the lad to train with the squad a few times before
the weekend
A signing like this gives notice of intent to the supporters and I for one am
excited at the prospect of Darren getting on the end of some of the crosses
delivered by messrs Young/Albrighton/Downing
Glad I retained my Wigan ticket for next week now !!
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Collymore doesn't like Bent, they've had a twitter row before.
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I dont understand how anyone cannot be excited by the possibility of getting Bent. We have been crying out for someone who is a natural goalscorer since the Saunders/Atkinson days.
With the chances we create i think he would be a massive signing.
As for the idea that we should spend the money abroad, I just dont agree. Hes a proven scorer that will fit straight into the team and keep us up.
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Cash only preferably, but £19mill less £7 mill for Carew and Ireland would work for me.
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I just hope we are not being used as a stalking horse for say Liverpool on this one.
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The club will not say anything until a fee has been agreed
He's not officially ours until the Mail publish a back page photo of him and Houllier, holding a shoulder each of a replica shirt, bearing his name, whilst sitting in the North Stand.
Simply holding a scarf above the head is a bit too 1980s now
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the north east correspondant on skysportsnews, really looks upset... its hilarious...
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There 580 guests on line here ...spooky!
Fuck off Paul Hayward.
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Is Bent cup-tied?
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the north east correspondant on skysportsnews, really looks upset... its hilarious...
David Craig, complete w****r he's trying his best to play it all down as if it's not going to happen
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yes he played vs Notts County.
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I just hope we are not being used as a stalking horse for say Liverpool on this one.
I was just thinking the same. I recon this could run for a while if im honest.
The thing i do like is it seems the player wants to come to us.
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What's the latest? I couldn't log in earlier. It's not on the BBC gossip column anymore. Is that a bad sign?
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the north east correspondant on skysportsnews, really looks upset... its hilarious...
David Craig, complete w****r he's trying his best to play it all down as if it's not going to happen
it was funny and looked like he was trying to convince himself that it was a silly thing for bent to want to go to the villa... i would imagine because he likes to think his links up in the north east are actually important... lol...
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Ireland, Beye and possibly NRC/Petrov now that we have Jean II.
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the north east correspondant on skysportsnews, really looks upset... its hilarious...
David Craig, complete w****r he's trying his best to play it all down as if it's not going to happen
He always look as though he's got somebody elses false teeth in.
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I realise this makes me look silly but I´d rather keep Ireland than Downing.
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They'd be welcome to any of the following:
Beye, NRC, Warnock, Ireland, Petrov, Heskey.
I'd rather it was just £18m cash though.
Or £20m and Pires.
agree with all them, and would throw in Carew, Gabby and Downing as well
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I just hope we are not being used as a stalking horse for say Liverpool on this one.
Seems Liverpool are more interested in Downing.
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they can have any of Ireland,Warnock,Beye,Carew,NRC
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
I hope he stays as he has been one of our steadier players.
UTV
The Doc
I agree, Downing has been great. Without his goals and assists we'd be in even more shit. Why are people so keen to ged rid of him???
There's a whole thread on why Downing is shit. Being a big girl when it comes to tackles is one of the reasons. Not being involved enough is another.
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He'd definitely be a good signing for us, excellent news.
Where was this money for MON? I presume that's why he left?
Looks like Downing could be off as well, a good news day all round!
I hope he stays as he has been one of our steadier players.
UTV
The Doc
I agree, Downing has been great. Without his goals and assists we'd be in even more shit. Why are people so keen to ged rid of him???
There's a whole thread on why Downing is shit. Being a big girl when it comes to tackles is one of the reasons. Not being involved enough is another.
And as has been pointed out Bent does not create goals so getting rid of someone like Downing to bring him in would be stupid.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/17/darren-bent-aston-villa-sunderland
not saying it's gospel but it includes some reasonable thoughts on the prospect...
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Albrighton and Banna/Adam will create more than Downing.
Flatters to deceive in my book.
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I just hope we are not being used as a stalking horse for say Liverpool on this one.
I was just thinking the same. I recon this could run for a while if im honest.
The thing i do like is it seems the player wants to come to us.
I said earlier when I logged in at lunch - Les Ferdinand. Villa don't do signing top players in their prime for huge fees. Just fear we will see this go the same way. God I would love him in a Villa shirt, knocking in a couple against City on Sat evening!
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Jesus! I hope this one goes through. We must follow it up with the Charlie Adam signing . Bent thrives on balls played down the sides of the centre-backs, Adam is one of the best in the Premier league at threading through balls between defenders. With the width we have to supply from the wings, having someone who can get it down and provide defence splitting passes is a must for Bent.
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I just hope we are not being used as a stalking horse for say Liverpool on this one.
I was just thinking the same. I recon this could run for a while if im honest.
The thing i do like is it seems the player wants to come to us.
I said earlier when I logged in at lunch - Les Ferdinand. Villa don't do signing top players in their prime for huge fees. Just fear we will see this go the same way. God I would love him in a Villa shirt, knocking in a couple against City on Sat evening!
this isn't Doug's Villa. Doug often had an agenda. Randy backed MON, and is backing GH. I have no doubts about this one.
In fact all we need now is Darren Bent profanity laced tweet confirming the deal.
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Think that Bent can play pretty well on his own - 2 wingers and some solidity in the middle and I reckon it's beginning to take shape.
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From SHA site.
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They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
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From SHA site.
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They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
Oh that's nice. Very, very nice!
Remember your place, inbreds!
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From SHA site.
"
They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
Oh that's nice. Very, very nice!
Remember your place, inbreds!
Sweet!!!
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Bent has 11 goals this season, 7 came before the end of September.
Is anybody worried about only 4 goals in 3 and half months.
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Brought a smile to my face as well.
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From SHA site.
"
They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
They can't afford Keane either.
What's that about the gap narrowing McLeish?
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Bent has 11 goals this season, 7 came before the end of September.
Is anybody worried about only 4 goals in 3 and half months.
Not as worried as I am by the fact that neither Gabby or Carew have scored in the league this season.
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Bent has 11 goals this season, 7 came before the end of September.
Is anybody worried about only 4 goals in 3 and half months.
still more than all are strikers put together
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Bent has 11 goals this season, 7 came before the end of September.
Is anybody worried about only 4 goals in 3 and half months.
Erm,.... yes.
Still, not counting any chickens. Can't believe people are so confident!
Not as worried as I am by the fact that neither Gabby or Carew have scored in the league this season.
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This is strange it doesn't seem to have moved on at all since the story broke 6 or 7 hours ago.
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From SHA site.
"
They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
Oh that's nice. Very, very nice!
Remember your place, inbreds!
Where, exactly, is the inbreds' place?
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From SHA site.
"
They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
Oh that's nice. Very, very nice!
Remember your place, inbreds!
Where, exactly, is the inbreds' place?
Hopefully not on the pitch...
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Bent has 11 goals this season, 7 came before the end of September.
Is anybody worried about only 4 goals in 3 and half months.
still more than all are strikers put together
I'm not we all know you get at least a goal every other game with Bent, I'm really excited!
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In his sister.
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From SHA site.
"
They have made a bid and he has handed in a transfer request, looks pretty nailed on.
fecking gutted once again we look close to competing with them and they do this."
;D
Oh that's nice. Very, very nice!
Remember your place, inbreds!
Where, exactly, is the inbreds' place?
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,392398,page=4
It's here, but I think their server is likely to explode if more than 10 people go on it at once so go easy. There are some hilarious posts on there.
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So, bent is in the area ready to start negotiations but nothing can go ahead because even though the fee is agreed they're ageing over how long it will be paid off
SSN source
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/17/darren-bent-aston-villa-sunderland
not saying it's gospel but it includes some reasonable thoughts on the prospect...
Wasn´t it us, under Gregory who offered 16m for SuperKevinPhillps?
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Yes it was Eamonn. Maybe Sunderland have decided that this time it is too much not to take.
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He wouldn't have been good enough for us then.
In that case neither were Gabby or Carew. Bent would have scored plenty more than those - possibly not done as much donkey work as Gabby but he certainly would have finished all those one-on-ones Gabby specialises in missing.
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The report reckons he was coming down for a medical. All a bit too good to be true, but hope i'm wrong. I reckon the money is coming in for Young personally, but i would swap Young for Bent considering we have 2 other good wingers and have nit had a goalscorer for years.
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Sunderland haven't agreed fee or terms yet apparently, can't see much happening tonight.So many different versions of events going about, sky have reported 4 different versions themselves , agreed, not agreed, going, staying, maybe?
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I'm sure things are much more complicated than they seem, but if, as widely reported, Bent is in the area waiting to undergo his medical, then you'd have to say that a)he is very keen to join us, and b) he is pretty confident of doing so.
I think this would be an incredible signing, if it comes off. And not just for the fact that we'll be getting an outstanding goalscorer - if it happens, this would surely send out a few very important signals, namely that we're not broke, we're still ambitious and Randy Lerner is still as fully committed as he has ever been.
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Darren Bent = Poor mans Clinton Morrisons
Love it!
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The Sky Sports "up North" man said that nothing had been agreed and Niall Quinn had left the Sunderland ground. He said and the Sky Midlands man agreed that any fee is likely to be paid in stages/instalments and that Sunderland would only receive a quarter of the £18m up front so they may stall as they cant get a replacement for £4.5m+ (I presume that instalments happens in all xfers)
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I'd be effing delighted with this transfer
I've literally wanted him at villa every season since he was at Ipswich
fantastic stuff
I wonder if that will end our incoming activity in the market?
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I'd be effing delighted with this transfer
I've literally wanted him at villa every season since he was at Ipswich
fantastic stuff
I wonder if that will end our incoming activity in the market?
I'd wager still being in for Adam, but little else after that. Left back loan maybe?
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We still have a bid for Adam and a left back is a priority so I reckon another 2 in at least .
Not sure it anything will happen regarding samba but I would expect a few outs, davies, warnock, Carew, Ireland.
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Mate just rang saying his brother is stood next to him and one of the villa medical staff at some private hospital in brum. I watched the news item on Sky and the guy said about the cash being paid over the next few years. Thats pretty much standard isn't it? Sunderland will surely do the same thing when they replace him.......
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
Couldn't believe what I was hearing - I was literally shouting at the TV!
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Football365 saying it is not anywhere close to being done.
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6667883,00.html
Balls. Hope it's not true.
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Bent's an improvement over what we have, no question.
Only worry is, from what I've seen, he's likely to miss two easy chances for every one he scores.
No way worth 18million but I guess you have to pay what it takes or go without.
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Some interesting career stats on DB (apologies if already posted):
http://bit.ly/f2MhwS
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Just turned on the t'internet and how good it is to see Darren Bent and Aston Villa linked together, I know we could have gotten him for less in the past but you cannot argue with his apps/goals ratio. I hope this goes through and although I never thought I would say it I hope Downing stays, we cannot be shipping players out.
Excellent work from Randy and the team, UTV.
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Mate just rang saying his brother is stood next to him and one of the villa medical staff at some private hospital in brum. I watched the news item on Sky and the guy said about the cash being paid over the next few years. Thats pretty much standard isn't it? Sunderland will surely do the same thing when they replace him.......
is he a reliable friend?
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Football365 saying it is not anywhere close to being done.
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6667883,00.html
Balls. Hope it's not true.
I like to take those articles with a pinch of salt, saying that it's probably true
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Mate just rang saying his brother is stood next to him and one of the villa medical staff at some private hospital in brum. I watched the news item on Sky and the guy said about the cash being paid over the next few years. Thats pretty much standard isn't it? Sunderland will surely do the same thing when they replace him.......
is he a reliable friend?
Yes mate, I'm not from Brum so I've just asked him to text me the name of the hospital so you can tell me how likely when I found out.....
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
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your a star mate
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Well if Joan Hunter says it.......
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I saw that, she didn't have a clue what she was talking about. Who is she anyway?
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
SNIFF SNIFF What's that?
Ahh, the smell of sour grapes.
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Who the fucks Joan Hunter?
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
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I saw that, she didn't have a clue what she was talking about. Who is she anyway?
Exactly what I thought.
Probably a friend of the producer.
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
women know fuck all about football...
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
SNIFF SNIFF What's that?
Ahh, the smell of sour grapes.
not at all mate i would like bent at blues so no sour grapes here sunshine....
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I saw that, she didn't have a clue what she was talking about. Who is she anyway?
She is, according to the BBC, a Villa blogger and a "passionate fan". Sometimes pops up on Phil Upton's show on WM.
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Hey sheldon I see robbie keanes blown you out as has kenny miller- how broken must you be seeing villa bid £18m on one player-see you next season mate, oh sorry you won't stay up I just remembered!
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
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I saw that, she didn't have a clue what she was talking about. Who is she anyway?
She is, according to the BBC, a Villa blogger and a "passionate fan". Sometimes pops up on Phil Upton's show on WM.
Well she also likes talking out of her arse.
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
women know fuck all about football...
Two ladies I know who support Villa, know more than most blokes.
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Hey sheldon I see robbie keanes blown you out as has kenny miller- how broken must you be seeing villa bid £18m on one player-see you next season mate, oh sorry you won't stay up I just remembered!
blues have drew a line under it and move on...dont worry mate downing or young will be going out the other way to balance the books.......any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
Knew it was too good to be true. FUCK!!!!!
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
women know fuck all about football...
Two ladies I know who support Villa, know more than most blokes.
Can't you just play along with the harmless sexism?
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Hey sheldon I see robbie keanes blown you out as has kenny miller- how broken must you be seeing villa bid £18m on one player-see you next season mate, oh sorry you won't stay up I just remembered!
blues have drew a line under it and move on...dont worry mate downing or young will be going out the other way to balance the books.......any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
Chiltern Railways £20 off-peak return...
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
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Only fish you will be frying is a nice cod tail end from the fish Market my friend!
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
When are your lot going to open up that transfer warchest of yours? I mean there has to be someone out there that wouldn't mind playing for you?
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ssn not mentioned the request being declined
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This is no Bullsh-t,Darren Bent in Bupa Little Aston with villa pysio and agent at about 5pm ;D
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joan hunter has just been on midlands today and said villa are pressing the panic button signing bent,she would rather the club in talks with kenny miller.....
women know fuck all about football...
Two ladies I know who support Villa, know more than most blokes.
Can't you just play along with the harmless sexism?
the only women i want to see at the football should be wearing a thong, titty tassles and handing out stellas
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there is nothing on skysportsnews about bruce turning down his transfer request...
Two ladies I know who support Villa, know more than most blokes.
check for a cock...
blues have drew a line under it and move on...dont worry mate downing or young will be going out the other way to balance the books.......any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
drawing a line under it because there is no resale value... what was that about balancing the books?
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Similar to dwight yorke, once a player wants to go you will not get the best out of him, bent will go whatever potato head says, he knows that as well .
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This is no Bullsh-t,Darren Bent in Bupa Little Aston with villa pysio and agent at about 5pm ;D
Go away spammer.
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Sky are saying Bent is in a local hotel waiting for the green light, i dont think this would be happening if they declined Bent's request.
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Well ive had in on for the last half an hour and not seen that. Its clearly bullshit. The thing i heard was that he was b/in to a Birmingham hotel. Bit strange if the request was rejected.
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Well she also likes talking out of her arse.
I have had more than one glass of red wine, my prescription glasses don't seem to be working and that looked like "Well, she likes taking it up the arse"
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Are you sure you heard it correct? Bent put in a transfer request last August which was turned down. They could of mentioned that and you got confused?
Typical of Potato head
Knew it was too good to be true. FUCK!!!!!
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Can you actually turn down a transfer request btw? What happens afterwards?
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Sky are saying Bent is in a local hotel waiting for the green light, i dont think this would be happening if they declined Bent's request.
Green light? What green light? Talk about chinese whispers on here.
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I dont understand Collymore on TS at the moment.hes talking shit
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Stan on talk sport at the moment, saying it is a panic buy and we would be better off signing two of (apologies for Spelling) Klasnic, Elmander, Bellamy....
He clearly doesn't like him very much.
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This is true i dont come on here often and unless im on magic mushrooms and saw otherwise i would not post crap
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
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Collymore really is a twat. Listening to talksport at the moment he claims to be a Villa fan (which he isn't) and then slags us off and claims Sunderland are bigger than us.
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..any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
Do they still have greyhound meets?
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This is no Bullsh-t,Darren Bent in Bupa Little Aston with villa pysio and agent at about 5pm ;D
Go away spammer.
This is what I was told as well.
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This is true i dont come on here often and unless im on magic mushrooms and saw otherwise i would not post crap
You might want to proof-read that post?
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
not been turned down dont worry
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this says it all!
sorry i tried to put a picture but it wont work
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
not been turned down dont worry
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
they have not.. been in front of skysportsnews all afternoon, and not once has that been mentioned...
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
I'm pretty sure that they would of been on about Bent having a transfer request rejected last August. I can't see that Bruce has turned it down this time given the fact there is money on the table for him now
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As i say this is all true defo no bullsh-t
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Mrs east watching emmerdale- please can someone confirm if sky have said transfer request turned down or not? Alanclare , where did you hear this?
Its horseshit.
1, sky say we have bid £18m. So did 5 live, so did the express and star. Some say it could rise to £24m
2, Bent has handed a transfer request in. Sources above.
3, sky saying he has booked into a birmingham hotel.
That is all.
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Sky are saying Bent is in a local hotel waiting for the green light, i dont think this would be happening if they declined Bent's request.
So why is he here if a bid hasn't been accepted? Did he just leave training this morning and think fuck it im gonna join the best club in the world?
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Can you actually turn down a transfer request btw? What happens afterwards?
Of course, he has signed a contract with Sunderland and has asked to be sold, if they turn down his request he'll be picked for the next game and if he refuses to play they wont pay him.
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Darren Bent and Stan have a bit of a history if I recall correctly. Didn't Bent refer to Collymore's extra curricular activities on twitter after Collymore criticsed his England credentials.
Stan is a good pundit who puts a lot of research into his work. However, on occasion, he's prone to taking an extreme view and then defending it rigourously. It seems he's in one of those moods tonight
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Stan going off on one on TS about Villa putting all their eggs in one basket. I don't mind Stan,but he's out of touch with most Villa fans,he's too closely connnected to M O'N. Most fans seems over the moon about the bid,but he seems really pissed off.
I think its pretty simple we need goals,have been creating chances of late,and we dont have a profilic scorer like DB.
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Hospital was Little Aston in Sutton Coldfield??? Doesn't mean a lot to me being from Kidderminster.
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Sky are saying Bent is in a local hotel waiting for the green light, i dont think this would be happening if they declined Bent's request.
Green light? What green light? Talk about chinese whispers on here.
I beg your pardon, he is waiting for permission to speak to us, you were correct.
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Well when it come to wasting money collymore knows his stuff- he was the ultimate failure !I wouldn't worry about him anyway , he and bent had a twitter bust up a while back , bent may become a villa legend , collymore was a villa failure.
Great news it's looking on if 2 sources say bent is at little Aston.
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As i say this is all true defo no bullsh-t
With all due respect (i.e. none), I view someone with 10+ posts with unsubstaniated rumours a little sceptically.
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Hospital was Little Aston in Sutton Coldfield??? Doesn't mean a lot to me being from Kidderminster.
Its the correct hospital for a medical, its BUPA jobby ten minutes from the training ground. He'll probably get MRSA knowing our luck.
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Collymore rabbiting on about "all eggs in one basket" - he'd know as the last time we did that was for.....
.....STANLEY VICTOR COLLYMORE!!
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yh it sound like it has a degree of truth in it
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As i say this is all true defo no bullsh-t
With all due respect (i.e. none), I view someone with 10+ posts with unsubstaniated rumours a little sceptically.
Well considering that there's a second source saying the same thing, I think he should be taken a little more seriously.
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We know from bitter experience that once a player has decided to leave, you're best just wringing out as much money as you can from the buying club and moving on.
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Darren Bent and Stan have a bit of a history if I recall correctly. Didn't Bent refer to Collymore's extra curricular activities on twitter after Collymore criticsed his England credentials.
Stan is a good pundit who puts a lot of research into his work. However, on occasion, he's prone to taking an extreme view and then defending it rigourously. It seems he's in one of those moods tonight
I love Stan, but he is a MON lover. His reasons for not liking Bent dont add up.
We dont need a striker who can hold the ball up or link up well. We need a goalscorer, so Stan contradicts himself.
He said Bent gets an A for goal scoring and finishing but gets a D for everything else.
Well thats perfect for us as we need goals, Bent would be brilliant with Heskey.
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Collymore rabbiting on about "all eggs in one basket" - he'd know as the last time we did that was for.....
.....STANLEY VICTOR COLLYMORE!!
Wouldn't putting all our eggs in one basket mean that we'd be signing nobody else for the rest of the transfer window? I look forward to seeing that one being proven false.
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Blimey, this is all a bit sudden. Never thought we'd sign Bent after he went to Sunderland, should have signed him before but better late than never!
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yes dont post much but had to tell this news im a bloody fourty old bloke married with kids n all that shit why would i wind up fellow villa fan,believe me it true
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Collymore rabbiting on about "all eggs in one basket" - he'd know as the last time we did that was for.....
.....STANLEY VICTOR COLLYMORE!!
It's his opinion. However, if we end up signing Bent and Adam on top of Makoun , it won't be a case of all our eggs in one basket which is what he is arguing. I think he's wrong on this one though. He's suggested 20m on Carroll which is all well and good. But Carroll has made it clear he wants to stay. Bent's handed a transfer request in.
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
This is killing you isn't it. You can't hide your envy and you are praying it all falls through. You're better off not posting mate.
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
This is killing you isn't it. You can't hide your envy and you are praying it all falls through. You're better off not posting mate.
Sheldon nose and Sheldon villa
hmmm, your not the Harry potter twins are ya?
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everyone ringing up not agreeing with Stan.. we will buy another 2 or 3 players with Bent anyway... fook, we need a goalscorer... so whats all this eggs in one basket shit, didnt I see Makoun sign for us the other day...
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lol not a wind up,message me when the its out in the press and tell me i can post again,i wont post anymore,have a good evening and UTV
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this says it all!
sorry i tried to put a picture but it wont work
Whats the picture?
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This should be retitled, 'Breaking News,Collymore losing the plot!'
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Is Stan getting a bit wound up
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
Saw the same thing. Did they just drag her in front of the camera as she was walking past? Is she a blose nose in disguise trying her damn hardest to put other ideas in the boards head? Is she related to MON in some way and have the same transfer ideas?
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everyone ringing up not agreeing with Stan.. we will buy another 2 or 3 players with Bent anyway... fook, we need a goalscorer... so whats all this eggs in one basket shit, didnt I see Makoun sign for us the other day...
The point is, we have a good squad anyway, so its not like spending a fortune on one player when the rest of the squad is shit, that would be daft.
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lol not a wind up,message me when the its out in the press and tell me i can post again,i wont post anymore,have a good evening and UTV
ive missed something, but what do you know?
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everyone ringing up not agreeing with Stan.. we will buy another 2 or 3 players with Bent anyway... fook, we need a goalscorer... so whats all this eggs in one basket shit, didnt I see Makoun sign for us the other day...
The point is, we have a good squad anyway, so its not like spending a fortune on one player when the rest of the squad is shit, that would be daft.
exactly
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Stan's just putting across an opinion to get people to call up, it's his job. It's bollocks of course. If we were putting all of our eggs in one basket we wouldn't be trying to signing Makoun and trying to sign Adam and a left back.
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..... should have signed him before but better late than never!
Not sure how true the info is, but I remember reading on here a couple of years ago that Tottenham/DelBoy/Levy don't sell players to what they consider to be direct rivals. Perhaps no amount of money or success at the time would have brought anybody here from Spurs, we were constantly linked with Jenas, Keane, Bentley, Krancarfgsfghhhst and Huddlestone for example. MON even fancied Hutton if I recall. So, IF Bent arrives it's because he had to go somewhere else first by the look of it.
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
Saw the same thing. Did they just drag her in front of the camera as she was walking past? Is she a blose nose in disguise trying her damn hardest to put other ideas in the boards head? Is she related to MON in some way and have the same transfer ideas?
It just proves how awful local BBC news is. I'm sure she won a competition to be a Blogger on all things Villa for BBC West Midlands. They get her on the radio every now and then also. I don't think I've heard her make one good point.
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
This is killing you isn't it. You can't hide your envy and you are praying it all falls through. You're better off not posting mate.
Sheldon nose and Sheldon villa
hmmm, your not the Harry potter twins are ya?
Haven't got a clue what you are on about.
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
Chuckle. Additional 5 pages just for that!
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
Saw the same thing. Did they just drag her in front of the camera as she was walking past? Is she a blose nose in disguise trying her damn hardest to put other ideas in the boards head? Is she related to MON in some way and have the same transfer ideas?
Link?
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
He was, he spent it on Davies,NRC,Harewood,Sidwell etc
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Glad MON didn't get this money.
It would have gone on the wages of Marcus Bent.
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Just posted this about Bent on the transfer thread then saw this one, so thought I'd repost here
A couple of years ago now I got into an argument on here about Bent. I said I thought that, while a great finisher, he didn't have enough in his game to make it at the top level. Since then, however, Bent has improved immeasurably, to the extent he can play as a lone striker in an attacking set-up (as opposed to the counter-attacking lone striker role he filled at Charlton). Besides, we know how GH wants us to play, so I'll trust his judgement on Bent's qualities for now. To be honest, even if he was just the finisher of old that would be enough to keep us up, and anyway he's more than that now so fine.
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Sky News has just said Steve Bruce has turned down the transfer request.
Typical of Potato head
really?oh dear...
This is killing you isn't it. You can't hide your envy and you are praying it all falls through. You're better off not posting mate.
Sheldon nose and Sheldon villa
hmmm, your not the Harry potter twins are ya?
Haven't got a clue what you are on about.
just a joke, the ginger twins off harry potter(not actually ginger) are from the midlands and one is a bluenose and one a villa fan.
they were on Soccer Am on saturday.
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Generally I respect Collymore's opinion but it's his job to wind people up & get them to phone in etc....
Excited about this transfer, assuming it goes through, we haven't had a proper goalscorer since Yorke. It's a lot of money & there's never a guarantee but Bent has always scored goals & hopefully he will continue to score goals.
Anyway what's the price if we fail to score goals over the next few months like we have so far this season?
Fair play to GH for taking action on the areas of the team where it's needed & RL for supporting him.
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
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I've seen dave woodhall give opinions on midlands today in the past at villa park but that woman was utterly ridiculous , saying houllier and bent are panic measures and kenny miller is the man we need and moaning about everything- come back dave, you are the man!
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
I dont understand why he's getting so uptight about it. Where did he get his crystal ball from,the one which told him Randy won't fund future signings.
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
He does have a point IMO, just not putting it across well .
as much as we need a goal scorer, we've shipped nearly a 100 goals in the last 12 months which is something else that needs looking at , which might be what he's trying to say .
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Bent may not be able to trap a bag of cement but he knows where the back of the net is. He's what we need now. The only issue will be giving him the right service.
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
He does have a point IMO, just not putting it across well .
as much as we need a goal scorer, we've shipped nearly a 100 goals in the last 12 months which is something else that needs looking at , which might be what he's trying to say .
thats alright if hes the only signing , but he aint going to be..
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
I like Collymore, i'm listening now and i can see what he's trying to say. He wants to see us bring in others as well as Bent and i can understand that and he has a point. Charlie Adam and a left back and it will have been a good window.
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
He does have a point IMO, just not putting it across well .
as much as we need a goal scorer, we've shipped nearly a 100 goals in the last 12 months which is something else that needs looking at , which might be what he's trying to say .
thats alright if hes the only signing , but he aint going to be..
thats the thing tho, we/he/they dont know that for sure
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Hey sheldon I see robbie keanes blown you out as has kenny miller- how broken must you be seeing villa bid £18m on one player-see you next season mate, oh sorry you won't stay up I just remembered!
blues have drew a line under it and move on...dont worry mate downing or young will be going out the other way to balance the books.......any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
It's just been confirmed what we all think of you... you've been trying to be as good as possible but you just couldn't help it this time and your post confirms it. Bitter to the bone.
See the difference between us and you? We're signing a very good striker despite being down in the bottom, on the flip side of the coin Kenny fucking Miller doesn't even want to touch small heath with a barge pole HAHAHAHAHAHA. Small time small heath.
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Collymore, 'dont put all your eggs in one basket, use the same amount of money to buy maybe 3 players not just one'
we have been doing that stan for the last 10 years or more, thats why we got a clogged up dressing room on massive wages
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
I like Collymore, i'm listening now and i can see what he's trying to say. He wants to see us bring in others as well as Bent and i can understand that and he has a point. Charlie Adam and a left back and it will have been a good window.
havent we already brought in two and looking for more... He dont like Bent and he loves MON, he keeps contradicting himself..
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Bent may not be able to trap a bag of cement but he knows where the back of the net is. He's what we need now. The only issue will be giving him the right service.
I've said, I think he's improved massively. Maybe the move to Sunderland has helped, bit of humility away from the limelight at one of those clubs that gets a bit unfairly ignored by the London/Lancs media mafia. Anyway, his movement and link-up play seems much better these days.
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Who the fuck is the idiot fan on BBC saying we shouldn't get bent and should get kenny miller instead- even pmk has better ideas than her !
Saw the same thing. Did they just drag her in front of the camera as she was walking past? Is she a blose nose in disguise trying her damn hardest to put other ideas in the boards head? Is she related to MON in some way and have the same transfer ideas?
Link?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj57 although the programme isn't available for download yet. It's a segment towards the end of the programme
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
He does have a point IMO, just not putting it across well .
as much as we need a goal scorer, we've shipped nearly a 100 goals in the last 12 months which is something else that needs looking at , which might be what he's trying to say .
Whilst I appreciate that also we desperately need a striker and we have done for many a year, We've signed Walker who looks good so far, I would say a LB is going to come in and I seriously doubt this will be the end of it
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thats the thing tho, we/he/they dont know that for sure
Could you say that about any transfer?
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Bent may not be able to trap a bag of cement but he knows where the back of the net is. He's what we need now. The only issue will be giving him the right service.
I've said, I think he's improved massively. Maybe the move to Sunderland has helped, bit of humility away from the limelight at one of those clubs that gets a bit unfairly ignored by the London/Lancs media mafia. Anyway, his movement and link-up play seems much better these days.
I hope you're right, Monty. It would be great if he turned out to be more than a short term fix and really went on to be a Villa goalscoring legend.
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He said earlier It proves that Villa can come in for top players... Stan , shut up... so youre saying the top player is not what we should be signing...
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Someone should remind Collymore that £24 million on any player would represent better value than the £7 million Aston Villa spunked up the wall for his services.
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collymore is talking so much shit and is sounding like a thick twat
He does have a point IMO, just not putting it across well .
as much as we need a goal scorer, we've shipped nearly a 100 goals in the last 12 months which is something else that needs looking at , which might be what he's trying to say .
Whilst I appreciate that also we desperately need a striker and we have done for many a year, We've signed Walker who looks good so far, I would say a LB is going to come in and I seriously doubt this will be the end of it
I blame the midfield a little as well , Makoun will make a difference and help the defence... The ball sometimes just keeps coming back to us..
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It seems like Bent had a preliminary scan at Bupa Little Aston at 6.40pm.
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Bent may not be able to trap a bag of cement but he knows where the back of the net is. He's what we need now. The only issue will be giving him the right service.
I've said, I think he's improved massively. Maybe the move to Sunderland has helped, bit of humility away from the limelight at one of those clubs that gets a bit unfairly ignored by the London/Lancs media mafia. Anyway, his movement and link-up play seems much better these days.
I hope you're right, Monty. It would be great if he turned out to be more than a short term fix and really went on to be a Villa goalscoring legend.
I don't think Randy and GH spend this money on the short-term. Everything's geared towards the overall plan, including this I think.
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Someone should remind Collymore that £24 million on any player would represent better value than the £7 million Aston Villa spunked up the wall for his services.
someone should tell him Sidwell has cost us £11 million
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thats the thing tho, we/he/they dont know that for sure
Could you say that about any transfer?
eh ?
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He's got you all listening to Talksport so he's doing the job he's paid to do.
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We are getting bent in his prime- most strikers reach a peak around 28 - 30 and if we get another 3 seasons after this out of him he may well score the goals that take us to glory.
We have the players to supply the chances , he is prolific in front of goal, makoun will be the midfield enforcer we have been crying out for, walker looks an exciting overlapping full back, things are coming together very nicely, bring in adam and a left back and we could go on a really good run, the league is tight and a decent run could soon shoot us into the top 8.
Exciting times ahead in b6!
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This is no Bullsh-t,Darren Bent in Bupa Little Aston with villa pysio and agent at about 5pm ;D
Go away spammer.
Please dont question Mattylad. Its the hospital Villa use. My son recently had an operation there and down the corridor in another room Mark Albrighton was recovering from his appenicitis operation. I have every confidence in Mattylad and his posts and NO reason to disbelieve him.
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It seems like Bent had a preliminary scan at Bupa Little Aston at 6.40pm.
Where's that come from?
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Collymore, 'dont put all your eggs in one basket, use the same amount of money to buy maybe 3 players not just one'
we have been doing that stan for the last 10 years or more, thats why we got a clogged up dressing room on massive wages
And that's exactly spot on...buy Bent for 18 million, proven goalscorer for £60k a week. Or get 3 Robbie Keanes for £6 million each for a total of £120k a week?
Absolute no brainer...
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He's got you all listening to Talksport so he's doing the job he's paid to do.
I dont like Eastenders Chris..
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anyway Chris , what are your thoughts on Mr Bent ?
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
If he had, we'd have McGeady and Keane in the squad now..... enough said.
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thats the thing tho, we/he/they dont know that for sure
Could you say that about any transfer?
eh ?
Never mind, misinterpreted your point.
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Collymore, 'dont put all your eggs in one basket, use the same amount of money to buy maybe 3 players not just one'
we have been doing that stan for the last 10 years or more, thats why we got a clogged up dressing room on massive wages
Egg in one basket - like we did when signing you then stan?
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He's got you all listening to Talksport so he's doing the job he's paid to do.
Good that he's taking his obligations to his employer seriously at last.
Over at VT they seem to think its a lot further forward with a medical already taken place.
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We've never really pushed the boat out for a striker - the big signings we've made have tended to be players that were not successful at a bigger club e.g. Saunders, Collymore. Bent is yet to approach his peak, will see Villa as a step up and will be hungry to get in the England squad. It would be a fantastic signing, as good a striker as we could get and 'oven ready' for the Premier League. Regardless if in the long run it comes off or not, hats of to Randy for really going for it. It has smashed the negativity that was around already.
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
If he had, we'd have McGeady and Keane in the squad now..... enough said.
and Jenas
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This is it, this is what we've all be crying out for... DARREN BENT, ARE U READY?!!!!!!
I just feel great right now about this, hopefully this is all finished very soon and we'll have Bent banging in the goals against $hitty on Saturday!
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
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It seems like Bent had a preliminary scan at Bupa Little Aston at 6.40pm.
Where's that come from?
It was posted on VT and seems to have been backed up by Matt Kendrick
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Collymore, 'dont put all your eggs in one basket, use the same amount of money to buy maybe 3 players not just one'
we have been doing that stan for the last 10 years or more, thats why we got a clogged up dressing room on massive wages
Yes buy mediocre player..just like we did with Sidwell, Harewood, Shorey, L.Young etc. Sorry stan we need to add class to our young team not dross.
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
I find that very hard to beleive
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
No surprise at all that other rival bidders are now being smoked out, we've done extremely well to keep it quiet this long. Amazing really in the age of 24hr news, twitter etc.
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anyway Chris , what are your thoughts on Mr Bent ?
A bit gobsmacked to be honest, I didn't expect us to be operating at this end of the market. I've said elsewhere that he's not a player I particularly like due to the limitations in his all round game but if he scores the goals then I think I can live with it and with Young, Downing, Albrighton and Adam supplying him with the opportunities there's no reason why he shouldn't.
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it would be gutting if Liverpool and Chelsea came in for him now,hurry up and sign on the dotted line Darren!
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
If he had, we'd have McGeady and Keane in the squad now..... enough said.
Bang on. The fact is that Randy was not willing to trust MON with any more money. He had wasted at least 50 of 80 m or so he spent on players.
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
No surprise at all that other rival bidders are now being smoked out, we've done extremely well to keep it quiet this long. Amazing really in the age of 24hr news, twitter etc.
The fact that Bent is in the Birmingham area makes me think that the transfer will be sewn up pretty soon,why else would he come down on the day he handed in a request?
Otherwise he'd have to return to Sunderland for training with his tales between his legs.
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just looking at that Rednapp comment on Bent when he missed that sitter , what a c**T.. I hope he comes back to nail the craggy face tosser when Villa play Spuzzzzz . Did houlier belittle Heskey after the sunderland miss which was a shocker..
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
I find that very hard to beleive
So do I
GET IT DONE VILLA
come on
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
No surprise at all that other rival bidders are now being smoked out, we've done extremely well to keep it quiet this long. Amazing really in the age of 24hr news, twitter etc.
The fact that Bent is in the Birmingham area makes me think that the transfer will be sewn up pretty soon,why else would he come down on the day he handed in a request?
Otherwise he'd have to return to Sunderland for training with his tales between his legs.
Didn't this happen with Milner for us?
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anyway Chris , what are your thoughts on Mr Bent ?
A bit gobsmacked to be honest, I didn't expect us to be operating at this end of the market. I've said elsewhere that he's not a player I particularly like due to the limitations in his all round game but if he scores the goals then I think I can live with it and with Young, Downing, Albrighton and Adam supplying him with the opportunities there's no reason why he shouldn't.
That is also my view Chris. Not been a fan of his but he scores. By the way who is Adam? (have we signed Charlie?)
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I could see Liverpool or Chelsea being interested in ash but I don't think bent would be a priority for either of them, they both lack a quality wide man, bent seems very keen so let's wrap this up quickly and move onto the next target, if as reported a medical is done and talk of £70000 a week then we may wrap it up tomorrow hopefully.
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Hey sheldon I see robbie keanes blown you out as has kenny miller- how broken must you be seeing villa bid £18m on one player-see you next season mate, oh sorry you won't stay up I just remembered!
blues have drew a line under it and move on...dont worry mate downing or young will be going out the other way to balance the books.......any way ive got bigger fish to fry sorting out my wembley ticket...
Nescafe handshake emoticon.
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desperate for us to wrap this up quick now.
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and Im getting sick of this , why wasnt MON not given the money....
If he had, we'd have McGeady and Keane in the squad now..... enough said.
Bang on. The fact is that Randy was not willing to trust MON with any more money. He had wasted at least 50 of 80 m or so he spent on players.
I'll say it again, until GH improves on what MON did at this club then judge his transfers and playing staff. Yes, he wasted some cash, but we wouldn't be 4th from bottom.
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Stan's critique of Bent is a bit rich - he'll score more goals for Villa than you did sunbeam.
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
No surprise at all that other rival bidders are now being smoked out, we've done extremely well to keep it quiet this long. Amazing really in the age of 24hr news, twitter etc.
The fact that Bent is in the Birmingham area makes me think that the transfer will be sewn up pretty soon,why else would he come down on the day he handed in a request?
Otherwise he'd have to return to Sunderland for training with his tales between his legs.
Didn't this happen with Milner for us?
The General said we already agreed a deal to sell Milner to Citeh, we were just waiting for Ireland because he had problems with Gary Cock and how much money he was meant to be owed.
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I think he means the aborted initial purchase of Jimmy.
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Db, give houllier time to build his team, yes we are in the bottom 4 but judge him after next season , not now.
Mon was given time and money and it's only fair to do the same with houllier, he is bringing class players in and I think he will achieve good things here.
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There is no danger of Bent ending up either at Lpool or Chelski.
Liverpool do not have the money and players at Chelski are not signed by Ancelotti and he is not big enough name for them. This is just Agent talk.
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sunderland after palva chenko now
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4 and a half year contract for Bent according to Mat Kendrick
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There is no danger of Bent ending up either at Lpool or Chelski.
Liverpool do not have the money and players at Chelski are not signed by Ancelotti and he is not big enough name for them. This is just Agent talk.
Liverpool dont need all £18m now just the initial instalment dont write them off......playing with Gerrard and Torres is still a
big lure
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4 and a half year contract for Bent according to Mat Kendrick
Is it done?
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I'm not going to be able to sleep much tonight. More excited than a five year old on Christmas eve!
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I feel like we are an emerging nation about to go Nuclear.
Please let this happen before we get scuppered. The revolution is about to begin ;D
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Wow.
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Liverpool and Chelsea could threaten to hijack Aston Villa’s £18m move for Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Bent, who handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light earlier today, is thought to be close to signing for Villa but would welcome interest from Chelsea and Liverpool.
The striker is reportedly in talks to complete a £70k a week contract negotiation with Aston Villa but sources suggest that he would favour a move to Kenny Dalgish’s Liverpool or Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea.
A potential stumbling block for Liverpool could be the price tag with Sunderland wanting offers in advance of £18m.
I find that very hard to beleive
So do I
GET IT DONE VILLA
come on
I don't think there's any truth in these reports. Both clubs could have gone in for the player before us and didn't. Also, Liverpool are in worse financial shape than us, and old Roman has turned off the taps on Carlo. He's coming to B6. Looking forward to his press conference tomorrow.
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4 and a half year contract for Bent according to Mat Kendrick
Is it done?
I don't know mate but it sounds nailed on if Mat Kendrick has details of the contract offered
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Where did kendrick say this? Liverpool need several
players, they have other priorities than bent, can't see them
being in for bent , john henry has said they will not invest huge money , sounds as if medical done and length of contract agreed , hope it can go through tomorrow if reports on here are correct.
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Where did kendrick say this? Liverpool need several
players, they have other priorities than bent, can't see them
being in for bent , john henry has said they will not invest huge money , sounds as if medical done and length of contract agreed , hope it can go through tomorrow if reports on here are correct.
He reported it on his twitter feed
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I don't want this to go wrong now, I for one am really excited. Villa have never spent this much on a player before. Its a sign of intent to me, Everyone was saying were skint and now were buying (hopefully) two quality players in a week!
I must say, yes I did doubt Houllier but I never doubted Randy and that's the truth
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This will quite a coup if we've pulled it off. I'm stunned, just stunned. Sunderland did well to get him, although it was easier then as he was out of favour at Spurs. Bent is one of Sunderland's best players, and they're riding high on the back of his goals.
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This will quite a coup if we've pulled it off. I'm stunned, just stunned. Sunderland did well to get him, although it was easier then as he was out of favour at Spurs. Bent is one of Sunderland's best players, and they're riding high on the back of his goals.
What you said Risso.
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I hope neither of downing , or ash depart , I think bent will thrive off ash and downing .I also think either of them.moving the other way will take the shine off , this is supposing bent signs of course .
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Has Stan forgot about Walker and Makoun then?
If the Bent goes deal goes through he'll be our third new player through the door (four including Cummings). That will be £24 million and rising committed this window even if we do nothing else.
With confirmed interest in Adam and Warnock being frozen out, it looks like that could well go past the £30 million mark this Jan.
He's not stupid, Stan. But sometimes he should engage his brain a bit more before opening his gob.
He's not the worst though, just heard some legendary backtracking from Mark Lawrenson re; the club being broke and that being the reason MON walked out.
"They should have given that money to Martin, then there wouldn't have been an issue."
The money was always there, you doughnut.
They still don't get it, do they?
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Yes this is big for the club, not just a more than decent player added and a new hero, but a real statement of intent.
I'm very happy, hopefully if it's done tomorrow the attendance against Citeh will swell with two debutants in the team.
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Ive never been so shocked and excited by a transfer, totally out of the blue. This is the boost we have all needed, hope it goes through tomorrow or I'll be getting sacked!!
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As well as signing Darren Bent we're also getting LeBron James too. 2 for the price of 1 - awesome!
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Haven't read through the thread so don't know if it's been mentioned but on the local news this evening (I say 'local' but Sunderland really isn't local to Harrogate) it was reported that Bent handed in a transfer request in the summer but the club persuaded him to withdraw it. Sunderland supporting mates have said he has looked hopelessly out of touch this season so that may have something to do with his earlier transfer request. Or, of course it could be that he is hopelessly out of touch.
£18 million plus for Darren Bent. Football has officially gone fucking bonkers.
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As Doug used to say: "Wait until the ink is dry on the contract".
If it happens, I'll be delighted.
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Wow.
What's wow Risso?
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Four and a half year deal according to Matty Kendrick
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Yes this is big for the club, not just a more than decent player added and a new hero, but a real statement of intent.
I'm very happy, hopefully if it's done tomorrow the attendance against Citeh will swell with two debutants in the team.
Possibly 3 if the rumours are true. A few ITK's suggesting that Charlie Adam will be in a Villa shirt by the end of the week. Exciting times.....
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
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Saunders and collymore were exciting signings at the time but we knew about them - this is a swoop and shocked and excited me more- I was desperate to sign him when he left spurs but this will be fantastic for the club- real lift for everyone and I'm thrilled for the fans, manager and randy- please general come back and take the plaudits.
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12 goals at the halfway mark whilst looking out of touch...just wait till he hits form in claret n blue it will be like a monsoon........
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Stan doesn't like Bent, they had a twitter row a few months ago.
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This bid just shows how little the media know about the ownership of our club. There hasn't been a hint that any significant funds would be made available and the press have been banging on about loan deals and penny pinching, assuming that MON walked because there wasn't any cash available. They still can't seem to grasp that Randy didn't want to give him anymore money to waste.
All the talk last week about Joe Lewis / Barry Fry and Adam / Holloway must have been a great smokescreen to keeping the hacks off the scent.
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
That's a teensy bit OTT if true, but bollocks to it, it's not my money! People must have been maxing out their MBNA credit cards after Christmas!
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Yes this is big for the club, not just a more than decent player added and a new hero, but a real statement of intent.
I'm very happy, hopefully if it's done tomorrow the attendance against Citeh will swell with two debutants in the team.
Possibly 3 if the rumours are true. A few ITK's suggesting that Charlie Adam will be in a Villa shirt by the end of the week. Exciting times.....
Doesn't Jean II need a work permit?
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Telegraph saying fee is actually £24m straight up, no add ons.
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I was delighted when I heard that we had put in a bid for Bent...until I heard that we offered 18 million for him?!! Is it really that much?
I don't understand. We had no money for Martin. Now Martin is gone and we have money again, but we are going to blow most of it on a player who is really not much better than what we already have. Maby my brain just isn't quick enough to comprehend all this...
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
That's a teensy bit OTT if true, but bollocks to it, it's not my money! People must have been maxing out their MBNA credit cards after Christmas!
If villa get players like this I'll get a card to help out
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
That's a teensy bit OTT if true, but bollocks to it, it's not my money! People must have been maxing out their MBNA credit cards after Christmas!
About £12m OTT but as you say, it's not our money. Exciting times ahead?
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Sunderland accepted 19million plus add-ons.
Darren Bent given 4 and a half year deal.
Seems to be all but done.
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I was delighted when I heard that we had put in a bid for Bent...until I heard that we offered 18 million for him?!! Is it really that much?
I don't understand. We had no money for Martin. Now Martin is gone and we have money again, but we are going to blow most of it on a player who is really not much better than what we already have. Maby my brain just isn't quick enough to comprehend all this...
We did have money for him. He just had to trim the wage bill first. It was just a common misconception that we had no money!
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No-one ever said there was no money for MON, this was just assumption.
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
Source?
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Yes this is big for the club, not just a more than decent player added and a new hero, but a real statement of intent.
I'm very happy, hopefully if it's done tomorrow the attendance against Citeh will swell with two debutants in the team.
Possibly 3 if the rumours are true. A few ITK's suggesting that Charlie Adam will be in a Villa shirt by the end of the week. Exciting times.....
Doesn't Jean II need a work permit?
Yes
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As much as I would like Bent here, £24m seems a lot of dollar.
For that money, we should be looking at Benzema and Luis Suarez to name but two.
Unless of course, they're plan B and Plan C.
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I was delighted when I heard that we had put in a bid for Bent...until I heard that we offered 18 million for him?!! Is it really that much?
I don't understand. We had no money for Martin. Now Martin is gone and we have money again, but we are going to blow most of it on a player who is really not much better than what we already have. Maby my brain just isn't quick enough to comprehend all this...
Wanna name the player we have who is as good as Bent?
Only players have scored more Premier League goals than him in the last 5 years. If he signs it will be the first time we have a striker that could get 0 goals in a season for a long time
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
ITSOTP <waggy finger fella>
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
That's a teensy bit OTT if true, but bollocks to it, it's not my money! People must have been maxing out their MBNA credit cards after Christmas!
About £12m OTT but as you say, it's not our money. Exciting times ahead?
Exactly,theres only one person who's opinion matter's,and that the American with the cheque book. If he's happy to do the deal,then we all should be. Maybe someone should tell Stanley Victor that.
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Why do people keep saying we had no money for MON?
Reading between the lines was it not a case of asking MON to get rid of the players he bought who were not good enough and didn't intend to play?
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I was delighted when I heard that we had put in a bid for Bent...until I heard that we offered 18 million for him?!! Is it really that much?
I don't understand. We had no money for Martin. Now Martin is gone and we have money again, but we are going to blow most of it on a player who is really not much better than what we already have. Maby my brain just isn't quick enough to comprehend all this...
Wow, you really believe the papers, don't you? We had money, but o'neill didn't want to address the wages issue. So he flounced off like a big drama queen.
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Telegraph are confirming fee at £24 m with no add ons - huge deal but a prolific proven scorer- fantastic deal, we had to pay over the odds to tempt them but we got a quality striker .
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How come people think it's all done?
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Only players have scored more Premier League goals than him in the last 5 years. If he signs it will be the first time we have a striker that could get 0 goals in a season for a long time
Think Heskey is averaging slightly over 0 goals a season but Gabby is on for 0 this season.
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How close to a done deal is this? Because if I like him on facebook and he doesn't sign I will not be happy..
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Telegraph are confirming fee at £24 m with no add ons
They're not confirming anything, they're guessing like the rest of them.
Incidentally, the other Villa transfer fees he mentions in the article (the Makoun fee and the Downing fee) the journalist gets wrong.
What suggests he is going to correct about this one?
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It will be interesting to hear what Bent gets paid. Has to break the current wage bill to get anywhere near what he was on.
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is the deal done or what??
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You get the impression Bent is desperate to sign for us which is a massive shot in the arm for us, it's not like Sunderland have been touting him around.
Get it done before anything goes wrong.
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
Source?
Everywhere. More specifically Matt Kendrick has reported that the deal is done and he has signed til 2015. ITK's on VT also backing this up and confirming it is 19 mil not 24.
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
Source?
More specifically Matt Kendrick has reported that the deal is done and he has signed til 2015.
No he hasn't.
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I would give Chris Jameson's right arm for a 0 goals a season striker
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Yesterday on H&V:
" We really need a striker who can get us 15-20 goals a season and an owner willing to back the manager with serious funds!!! "
Villa on verge of signing 3rd highest PL goal getter:
" £23m??? Way too much, would rather have Kenny Miller, Robbie Keane, Michael Ricketts!!! Randy has lost the plot "
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Like a whoere's knickers in Romford.
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Oh jesus christ...... Liverpool sign Bent
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Well they owed us a favour after we relegated Newcastle.
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
Source?
More specifically Matt Kendrick has reported that the deal is done and he has signed til 2015.
No he hasn't.
@Mat Kendrick
4.5 year deal done to 2015.
On twitter.
TBF there are conflicting reports all over the net.
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Yesterday on H&V:
" We really need a striker who can get us 15-20 goals a season and an owner willing to back the manager with serious funds!!! "
Villa on verge of signing 3rd highest PL goal getter:
" £23m??? Way too much, would rather have Kenny Miller, Robbie Keane, Michael Ricketts!!! Randy has lost the plot "
Were Villa fans we like to moan :)
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24 Million wow !! But if you want goals, they don't come cheap....and he will get bucket loads here. He can hit the ground running, has proven prem goals (only Rooney and Drogba better in last 4 or so years...and how much for them?).
Massive statement of intent from Randy...
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Any link to kendricks page?
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Its 19 Million leading up 24 with add ons.
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Its 19 Million leading up 24 with add ons.
http://twitter.com/#!/MatKendrick
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As much as I would like Bent here, £24m seems a lot of dollar.
For that money, we should be looking at Benzema and Luis Suarez to name but two.
Unless of course, they're plan B and Plan C.
And what makes you think they'd come? We have no Champions league to offer and would be gazumped by the big boys if we tried.
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Oh jesus christ...... Liverpool sign Bent
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Lol
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Oh jesus christ...... Liverpool sign Bent
*groan*
Actually it did make me chuckle
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Sunderland are greedy cun1ts aren't they? They signed him for £10 million and they want £24 million? Please Go.
£19 million is fine, he's English so a few more $$$ are going to be added on - I don't care, I'm just so pleased to have him!!!
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Originally Posted by Smatty
Good. Wonder what will happen if the deal doesn't go through though?
I expect he will go to a bigger club than villa, maybe liverpool.
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Twitter.com/matkendrick
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We're signing a centre forward whom only Rooney & Drogba have scored more. A snip, & a brilliant piece of business.
Keep Downing, add a GK & RB, & a bright future is looking even brighter.
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Apparently Liverpool are more interested in Suarez than Bent... But then again so are Shakhtar and Zenit
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Originally Posted by Smatty
Good. Wonder what will happen if the deal doesn't go through though?
I expect he will go to a bigger club than villa, maybe liverpool.
Even better
How about Stern John + £19.5m in the pocket? Come on, it's got to be worth a punt.
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I thought Sunderland signed him for 14m?
He's gone there and scored 30 odd league goals in 18 months so they were always going to make a profit on him.
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Funny how quickly it can all change round, first Makoun, now Bent were gonna have a good look about the team. Its good to feel excited about the Villa again after the last 6 months or so, makes it all worth while
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Guardian reckon 18 mil turned down and they are after 20 mil plus. Don't know what to think. :-\
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It seems it's done!! Yipeee..... ;D ;D ;D
Source?
More specifically Matt Kendrick has reported that the deal is done and he has signed til 2015.
No he hasn't.
@Mat Kendrick
4.5 year deal done to 2015.
On twitter.
TBF there are conflicting reports all over the net.
He said the deal 'will be till 2015'. Nothing about it being done. Reckons tomorrow.
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Apparently Liverpool are more interested in Suarez than Bent... But then again so are Shakhtar and Zenit
Why do people still think Liverpool are a big club? They're still in huge debt and couldn't afford Bent at £19M - they can't afford Downing either - Torres will off come the summer anyway
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24 Million straight cash according to The Telegraph.
and of course we sold Milner for 30million ::)
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I have allways thought that Bent is a player with limited ability, but most importantly he knows where the back of the net is and right now we need that very very much
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Maybe we could do a part exchange and send them Ireland. That would bring the price down a bit and he gets his move back up north.
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Maybe we could do a part exchange and send them Ireland. That would bring the price down a bit and he gets his move back up north.
It might send the price up.
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From reading round various news sites, the total fee that sunderland will have to pay spurs is 16.5m, which is surely having an impact on what he is costing us, still as has been said proven striker he will get us goals, which we have been missing for more than just this season.
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Maybe we could do a part exchange and send them Ireland. That would bring the price down a bit and he gets his move back up north.
It might send the price up.
Fair point.
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I thought Sunderland signed him for 14m?
He's gone there and scored 30 odd league goals in 18 months so they were always going to make a profit on him.
My bad. £10 million was the initial fee... obviously that went up because Spurs are tight pricks.
Still, it's a lot of greedy profit Sunderland are looking for after a season and half. It's like dillusional Spurs fans thinking Gareth Bale is worth £35 million plus.
You pay for what you get and if Bent's gonna bang in the goals, then I guess he's worth it.
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I thought Sunderland signed him for 14m?
He's gone there and scored 30 odd league goals in 18 months so they were always going to make a profit on him.
My bad. £10 million was the initial fee... obviously that went up because Spurs are tight pricks.
Still, it's a lot of greedy profit Sunderland are looking for after a season and half. It's like dillusional Spurs fans thinking Gareth Bale is worth £35 million plus.
You pay for what you get and if Bent's gonna bang in the goals, then I guess he's worth it.
Isnt Bale better than Messi and C.Ronaldo combined tho????
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Seems as though he may well be unveiled tomorrow , we have moved quickly to get this deal done, I have heard rumours that Adam will be arriving too but not sure how accurate they are, let's pack the ground out on Saturday and give darren a great welcome to our club.
There was a story that we are trying to fast track makouns permit, with a villa supporting pm you never know, we gave that feelgood factor back now or at least most of us do-great day to be a villa fan.
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Originally Posted by Smatty
Good. Wonder what will happen if the deal doesn't go through though?
I expect he will go to a bigger club than villa, maybe liverpool.
pete b
I'm gobsmacked here, gutted. it's all very well getting £18-£20m but you've got to find 20 goals a season and I think (aside from yesterday) Gyans a scorer of great goals not a great goalscorer. Can Welbeck and Campbell step it up?
One eg, here's another..
Originally Posted by Don Coyote
I am gobsmacked by this - and sad, too. But I would agree with the majority that he has looked off lately.
Here's a thought ... Perhaps this explains something about our supposed interest in Owen?
this feels like when Marco left! I'm sat here stunned.
But on the other hand..
boots
Sunderland til I die.
So despite my disapointment on hearing the news my considered response is - meh. Hes been shit lately and doesnt exactly contribute to a flowing footballing style. Hel be difficult (but not impossible to replace). That said £18m would buy us almost anybody except aunty Carrol.
Just looked at one site - they're shocked (so are we), a bit down but not hysterical (unlike us most of the time).
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I wonder how this has gone down amongst Sunderland fans.
Originally Posted by Smatty
Good. Wonder what will happen if the deal doesn't go through though?
I expect he will go to a bigger club than villa, maybe liverpool.
pete b
I'm gobsmacked here, gutted. it's all very well getting £18-£20m but you've got to find 20 goals a season and I think (aside from yesterday) Gyans a scorer of great goals not a great goalscorer. Can Welbeck and Campbell step it up?
One eg, here's another..
Originally Posted by Don Coyote
I am gobsmacked by this - and sad, too. But I would agree with the majority that he has looked off lately.
Here's a thought ... Perhaps this explains something about our supposed interest in Owen?
this feels like when Marco left! I'm sat here stunned.
But on the other hand..
boots
Sunderland til I die.
So despite my disapointment on hearing the news my considered response is - meh. Hes been shit lately and doesnt exactly contribute to a flowing footballing style. Hel be difficult (but not impossible to replace). That said £18m would buy us almost anybody except aunty Carrol.
Just looked at one site - they're shocked (so are we), a bit down but not hysterical (unlike us most of the time).
Suppose its the same as when we lost Milner, good player but we're getting a LOT of money for him..
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Bent and Gyan are very similar players so Bruce can take a profit on Bent and spend that on a n other, it looks good business from thier poit of view
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There will always be an element of 'let him go/he's overrated' sentiment from the selling club's fans. It's how we all deal with the loss of a top player...
...Hang on! I'm sounding like someone who's bothered what they think. Fcuk 'em!
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Exciting times. The fee does smack a little of desperation though. Not sure what this means for gabby really. Two fwds of their relatively lye technique would leave us fairly predictable I reckon
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Sunderland's a good club, I won't begrudge them european football as unlike their neighbours, they seem to have level headed fans. 6th place is theirs to lose anyway.
Don't a few post on here sometimes, Flan?
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Its theirs to lose? There's just over half a season to go. They can finish anywhere from 6th - 16th.
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. Not sure what this means for gabby really. Two fwds of their relatively lye technique would leave us fairly predictable I reckon
It means he's got to get his finger out & show that he deserves to be in the side. He's also on a long term contract which means if he is to be sold we can keep the price high.
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Where can I see how many goals Bent has got? 172 in 299 games is a superb record.
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It's funny,for ages I've thought Bent was destined for the Villa I think he could be a legend.Please let this happen
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
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I don't think many of us would have been doing cartwheels over Bent in the summer; many would have thought MON had lost the plot completely if he'd paid £18m, £19m or £24m back then. It shows how circumstances have changed and needs must and it suddenly looks a fantastic deal. I've always thought him a bit lazy but one thing he can do is score goals, and as long as we don't lose players who can create them (i.e. Ashley and Downing) then he could be exactly what we're missing and is the best we're likely to get. I'm also reassured Houllier seems to be looking home as well as abroad.
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There will always be an element of 'let him go/he's overrated' sentiment from the selling club's fans. It's how we all deal with the loss of a top player...
...Hang on! I'm sounding like someone who's bothered what they think. Fcuk 'em!
True theres some on here gloating when Milner and/or Barry aren't in City's first team.
Not that it matters if he signs.
It just seems odd that we aren't into the last few days of the window and a quick deal, albeit for a big sum from a selling club with no money should go through according to a source close to the player. I'm just waiting for the source high up in the club to comment before I get too excited.
Incredible news if it goes through mind, especially if the other two players he's bid on join too. (from a source close to the manager)
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
Sounds like you are too
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
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Where can I see how many goals Bent has got? 172 in 299 games is a superb record.
Not quite in agreement with the figures you quote, but still pretty good.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/players/b/bent_221712.stm
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Wow! Top stuff, cheers Pelty!
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
Cheers for that, much appreciated.
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
Great news, thanks. Tomorrow will be buzzing.
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
Sounds like you are too
Care to explain?
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Yes quite. Appreciate now why you had to keep your mouth shut before. Thanks
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Pelty, Was this your ITK you posted the other night?
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It was, midnite (and damon). Sorry to have played the tart a bit, but you can see why I was pretty excited!
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Cheers Pelty. Outstanding business this window.
Regards to the old man.
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Where can I see how many goals Bent has got? 172 in 299 games is a superb record.
Not quite in agreement with the figures you quote, but still pretty good.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/players/b/bent_221712.stm
Thank-you
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
Sounds like you are too
Care to explain?
Of for f#ck sake cheer up. We're about to sign a striker who can actually score goals.
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And are we expecting significant departures this window, pelty, without mentioning names, of course?
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Its theirs to lose? There's just over half a season to go. They can finish anywhere from 6th - 16th.
Bolton are starting to flag with their small squad and Liverpool and Everton's sole intention like us seemingly is to avoid relegation, so with Stoke and Newcastle their main challengers I'd suggest 6th is theirs to lose.
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
Sounds like you are too
Care to explain?
Of for f#ck sake cheer up. We're about to sign a striker who can actually score goals.
I am totaly cheered up mate,
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Pelty thanks for your input , please pass on best wishes to your father, maybe he will return now we have such a positive feelgood factor, and of course to gerard and randy- thank you all , you have us proud !
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Pelty, Was this your ITK you posted the other night?
Bloody hell fella ...... your a little bit greedy aint ya ..... if this aint knocked ya socks off then I don't know exactly what would
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Bruce is a decent manager, Bent has looked off form and is unhappy, we are desperate.
Sounds like you are too
Care to explain?
Of for f#ck sake cheer up. We're about to sign a striker who can actually score goals.
I am totaly cheered up mate,
Good man! ;-)
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I don't think many of us would have been doing cartwheels over Bent in the summer; many would have thought MON had lost the plot completely if he'd paid £18m, £19m or £24m back then. It shows how circumstances have changed and needs must and it suddenly looks a fantastic deal. I've always thought him a bit lazy but one thing he can do is score goals, and as long as we don't lose players who can create them (i.e. Ashley and Downing) then he could be exactly what we're missing and is the best we're likely to get. I'm also reassured Houllier seems to be looking home as well as abroad.
Disagree Steve.
Most felt we needed a top striker and a genuine CM in the summer. Bent's record can't be argued with. Even in the summer the prospect of Sunderland selling their talisman would have been remote, so had we pulled it off it would have been a coup.
I'm sure had it been MON who signed him he'd have taken stick for paying so much more for him than he would have done so 12 months previous, but the positivity from actually getting him would have far outweighed that.
Though I fully accept that if we continue to struggle people will look at his previous topflight clubs and point to what appears to be a recurring pattern. Charlton - struggled (and then went down). Tottenham struggled whilst he was there and Sunderland looked like they could go down at one point last year.
The challenge for us is to show we're better than the teams he was playing for in those previous occasions and that this year is just a glitch for us.
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None of which I am currently aware, Jimbo (but I reserve the right to be wrong!). I have heard no word of Downing or Young (the two names I have seen flung around today) leaving for browner pastures...
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It was, midnite (and damon). Sorry to have played the tart a bit, but you can see why I was pretty excited!
Cheers pelty. And no need to apologies. We understand you couldn't say anything that could then ruin the move but at the same time how big a piece of news it is for the club that you just need to say something!
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
Thanks. Every player wearing a Villa shirt should be proud.
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None of which I am currently aware, Jimbo (but I reserve the right to be wrong!). I have heard no word of Downing or Young (the two names I have seen flung around today) leaving for browner pastures...
Sorry, have I missed something? Who's your farther pelty? Or is that on a ITK level only?
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Much appreciated, pelty. Real strength in depth is what we need, and could be what we're getting at long last, instead of a first eleven and a bunch of overpaid benchwarmers.
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I have allways thought that Bent is a player with limited ability, but most importantly he knows where the back of the net is and right now we need that very very much
Him and Benzema are going to make some combination. :)
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I have allways thought that Bent is a player with limited ability, but most importantly he knows where the back of the net is and right now we need that very very much
Him and Benzema are going to make some combination. :)
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Cheers Pelty. Outstanding business this window.
Regards to the old man.
Absolutely, on both counts. Hope you are both well.
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None of which I am currently aware, Jimbo (but I reserve the right to be wrong!). I have heard no word of Downing or Young (the two names I have seen flung around today) leaving for browner pastures...
Sorry, have I missed something? Who's your farther pelty? Or is that on a ITK level only?
Mao Tse-tung or General Krulak.
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Gary Ewing from 'Knot's Landing'
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Look, questions for pelty ONLY please. How many friggin' times does it have to be said?
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
Many thanks for the update, its much appreciated.
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ah awesome didn't realise there was still a krulak on the message boards.
Indeed, hope he's well, look forward to having him back on the forums some time soon too!!
Cheers again pelty
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FYI, WRT some earlier posts, I feel fairly certain that Makoun will not be playing this weekend because of the visa issue. The Bent deal is tied up except for the transfer paperwork that needs to be signed by Sunderland and sent to the FA. It was too late in the evening for that to happen when all the other stuff - the physical, etc. was sorted out. When asked if this was viewed by his son as a good career move, Bent's father responded (paraphrasing a bit), "It is more than a good career move; he is proud to wear the shirt." That is where it all stands at the moment...
Brilliant news - thanks for the news Pelty. I trust your dad is well?
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Gary Ewing from 'Knot's Landing'
Was he the one who died, only to really be in the shower for five years?
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Look, questions for pelty ONLY please. How many friggin' times does it have to be said?
ha! ha!
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Yes, he is well and will be back soon, though perhaps a bit more sporadically.
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Yes, he is well and will be back soon, though perhaps a bit more sporadically.
glad to hear it dude!
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Look, questions for pelty ONLY please. How many friggin' times does it have to be said?
ha! ha!
Gary Ewing from 'Knot's Landing'
Was he the one who died, only to really be in the shower for five years?
No that was Bobby Ewing from Dallas
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My dad is also well, in case anyone was wondering. He had a spot of bother with the boiler but reckons he can fix it.
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Pelty, you're the man!
You're right when you said the player you were keeping under wraps is going to be a player we're all going to be happy about signing. I'm more than happy, I'm thrilled! Thanks for everything. We've gone out and got what we need. Time to put the bad behind us and look foward to a better second half of the season!
Best wishes to your father - hope he's doing well :)
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Thanks Pelty UTV
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Ah gotcha, I'm still of the opinion that Bobby Ewing being in the shower for five years is nowhere near as strange as the Bent signing.
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Absolute bollocks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html
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I do like a bit of hows-your-father after a good day in the transfer market
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It is reported Bent is going to be on 70k a week, we cannot sustain such high wages surely.
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My dad is also well, in case anyone was wondering. He had a spot of bother with the boiler but reckons he can fix it.
My dad just phoned up: "Them players can't trap a ball, that should be their bleedin' bread and butter, why don't he pick that Bobby Thomson?"
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Absolute bollocks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html
inevitable really. Best staying clear of such agenda driven propaganda.
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It is reported Bent is going to be on 70k a week, we cannot sustain such high wages surely.
Depends who we get rid of. Sidwell and Beye would cover that.
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It is reported Bent is going to be on 70k a week, we cannot sustain such high wages surely.
Ah fuck it, live a little.
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Absolute bollocks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html
On so many levels. The MON PR mouthpiece has got quite a few things wrong there.
It shouldn't annoy, but it does.
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My dad is also well, in case anyone was wondering. He had a spot of bother with the boiler but reckons he can fix it.
Glad to hear it. Funnily enough i was about to ask you about him
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No but if true, it's a viscious cycle, Ash will want at least the same if he signs, any potential targets will want more if people know Bent is on 70k.
I just hope this isn't Randy panicking.
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That's not a good picture of Randy
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Absolute bollocks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html
On so many levels. The MON PR mouthpiece has got quite a few things wrong there.
It shouldn't annoy, but it does.
I couldnt give a rats ass about the previous manager. Hes yesterdays man.
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No but if true, it's a viscious cycle, Ash will want at least the same if he signs, any potential targets will want more if people know Bent is on 70k.
I just hope this isn't Randy panicking.
wasn't it quoted some where that ash would be on more than that anyway with the new contract that was offered to him?
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No but if true, it's a viscious cycle, Ash will want at least the same if he signs, any potential targets will want more if people know Bent is on 70k.
I just hope this isn't Randy panicking.
I doubt its too far above what we are paying, Ireland, Carew, Young & Heskey. Its the market for proven PL striker. Sad but true.
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
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Have we really become so insular that we cannot accept any other point of view? I don't agree with it but it's just a few paragraphs prompted by McCarthy's comments, and you can see why it might look that way to an outsider.
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From the Telegraph
Lerner had intimated that Villa would be operating a policy of one in, one out, after spending more than £140 million on transfers since buying the Midlands club in 2006. However he has agreed to shatter the club’s transfer record by making a straight-cash offer for the 26 year-old in a clear commitment of support for his under-fire manager Gérard Houllier.
What former manager Martin O’Neill makes of Lerner’s decision to allow Houllier to move for Bent is an intriguing question, and one raised by Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy yesterday.
O’Neill, a long-time admirer of Bent’s, resigned from Villa five days before the start of the season after learning that the £18 million earned from James Milner’s sale to Manchester City would not be made available to him.
“I wonder what Martin’s thinking,” McCarthy said. “He said to me that they were selling players.”
Errrr - one in one out and sell to buy - that will be the Milner money then you idiot. How many fans does MON have?
And we were selling players - all the crap ones MON paid over the odds for and then didn't play or fell out with. Why don't they get it? Oh yeh because they are all stupid journos...
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That Telegraph article is utter bollocks. Spurs paid £16m for Bent when they already had Keane, Berbatov and Defoe and a shit defence but nothing was said to mock them as they are such a fashionable media darling club. Now we have the barefaced cheek to spend £18-£19m which could rise to £24m on an even more proven Bent when we have needed a goalscorer for 3 years and need a shot in the arm to climb the table, it's seen as a panic. I think these people should mind their own business, or at least be a bit better informed before spouting this shit. Utter bastard.
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From the Telegraph
Lerner had intimated that Villa would be operating a policy of one in, one out, after spending more than £140 million on transfers since buying the Midlands club in 2006. However he has agreed to shatter the club’s transfer record by making a straight-cash offer for the 26 year-old in a clear commitment of support for his under-fire manager Gérard Houllier.
What former manager Martin O’Neill makes of Lerner’s decision to allow Houllier to move for Bent is an intriguing question, and one raised by Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy yesterday.
O’Neill, a long-time admirer of Bent s, resigned from Villa five days before the start of the season after learning that the £18 million earned from James Milner’s sale to Manchester City would not be made available to him.
“I wonder what Martin’s thinking,” McCarthy said. “He said to me that they were selling players.
Which is why he bought Marlon Harewood.
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You know thinking about it, I'm going to just trust Randy, he knows what he is doing, he has had his fingers burnt by Martin, hopefully he is now leading us on a route to success.
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O’Neill, a long-time admirer of Bent’s...
Maybe he should have bought him when he had the chance then?
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"O'Neill, a long time admirer of Bent"
Yes, such a massive admirer he wouldn't pay over 8m for him, by all accounts, but would pay 4.5m for the Harewood?
What a load of utter, utter nonsense.
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
I keep having the thought that the Villa way is for him to either go 3 months without a goal or to do a Luc Nilis. I'm just being silly though, aren't I? That can't happen.
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I'd imagine its a much easier decision to find the £18m when you are facing a very real relegation battle and all it entails.
Still, another time, lets be glad about the most amazing signing I can remember. Unless it all goes tits up.
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People seem to forget that Tottenham have spent a fuck of a lot of money to get where they've got today. It does annoy me that for every 'bargain' they get (Van Der Vaart is one, it pains me to say) they also spend insane amounts of untested and/or unused players that nobody seems to notice. I've no doubt that had Everton had the constant bankrolling of a Tottenham Hotspur when they finished fourth they'd still be up there.
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
I keep having the thought that the Villa way is for him to either go 3 months without a goal or to do a Luc Nilis. I'm just being silly though, aren't I? That can't happen.
One goal in his last eight games.
He's already had his dry spell for the season.
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It's better to not get too hot about anything printed in that rag.
They should worry less about how much we're paying, and more about how much tax their owners aren't. Off-shore tax-dodge Barclay twats.
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Sky still saying bent in hotel waiting for permission to talk to villa.-ha ha what little do they know!
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And again a story about Randy's perceived parsimony comes indirectly from O'Neill himself. Like that bollocks in the Guardian about Lerner's 'spiritual departure.' He didn't give you the money because he didn't trust you. Get over it, fuckface.
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Well of course he's panicking. We all are. If it takes being in the relegation zone or currently just above it, then we know his trigger point. I don't care. I'm glad we've got some signings, at last, which will hopefully lift things. I do care about the "predicament", so it's not a time for breaking out the cigars and back-slapping just yet, we do need some results. I'm not convinced either this is all part of some great masterplan, given where we find ourselves, I doubt this money would have been shelled out if we were comfortably mid table. It's a bit like congratulating BP on their work in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico.
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You know thinking about it, I'm going to just trust Randy, he knows what he is doing, he has had his fingers burnt by Martin, hopefully he is now leading us on a route to success.
lol yeah, it certainly has been a steep learning curve. You dont become a successful business man though from not learning quickly and not making the same mistakes again.
The difference is when you're running a football club, if you do make any mistakes then they're quite public ones!!
Not that i'm classing MON as a complete mistake just the giving him carte blanche over the football club
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
I keep having the thought that the Villa way is for him to either go 3 months without a goal or to do a Luc Nilis. I'm just being silly though, aren't I? That can't happen.
I more or less had the same thoughts ...oh what has Villa done to my optimism
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Excited as I am by the potential signing of Bent I can't help but think back to other strikers who were record signings. On one hand Tony Cascarino and Stan Collymore and, with the glass being half full, Peter Withe.
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Well of course he's panicking. We all are. If it takes being in the relegation zone or currently just above it, then we know his trigger point. I don't care. I'm glad we've got some signings, at last, which will hopefully lift things. I do care about the "predicament", so it's not a time for breaking out the cigars and back-slapping just yet, we do need some results. I'm not convinced either this is all part of some great masterplan, given where we find ourselves, I doubt this money would have been shelled out if we were comfortably mid table. It's a bit like congratulating BP on their work in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico.
Comical last sentance but i don't totally agree. Although i do wonder whether some significant funds will be coming back in if you know what i mean. Still, if we are a better side for it, great.
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There have been mootings at times throughout the time Lerner has owned the club that there was a frustration with MON not being willing to buy that marque player.
We have agreed to buy the 3rd highest premiership scorer in the last 5 years, edged out by a goal. Can't say fairer than that.
Chris, likewise with our luck, and GH's so far, he will be crocked first game.
Lets hope he has the effect Dion had in his first couple of years with us.
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ozzjim, i've just been thinking that saturday might be a dion dublin v spurs type debut!
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ozzjim, i've just been thinking that saturday might be a dion dublin v spurs type debut!
If that is the case then any Villa fan going to it is going to be very lucky indeed.
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Absolute bollocks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html
We all know if Liverpool had pulled this off it would have been 'Liverpool show intent at returning to the big time' and other such shite. The amount of crap that has been written about Villa so far this season is fucking ludicrous. All of a sudden, a lot of journo's have had a massive poke in the eye after a few months of kicking us when we're down. The knives are out. Bollocks to them.
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If this is Mr Lerner panicking I'll be tickled pink if he is still feeling shaky enough to unstrap for another couple of quality signings. This puts us only a couple of players shy of being a really quality outfit. I'm chuffed. Just the tonic the club needs also, we will be able to afford to let go of a couple of the unhappy voices in the dressing room at this rate.
If this doesn't happen now I'm going to look like a right prick in the boozer tomorrow, I've just spent hours laughing at all my non-Villa mates.
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
I keep having the thought that the Villa way is for him to either go 3 months without a goal or to do a Luc Nilis. I'm just being silly though, aren't I? That can't happen.
One goal in his last eight games.
He's already had his dry spell for the season.
*nervous laugh*
Mind you, he even failed to score against us.
*serious face*
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The only thing that worries me is the potential for irony in Saturday's game. If De Jong doesn't get him, I have a sickening feeling it'll be an innocuous challenge from Milner or Barry that snaps his leg like a twig.
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He's pretty good at taking penalties too I seem to remember.
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The only thing that worries me is the potential for irony in Saturday's game. If De Jong doesn't get him, I have a sickening feeling it'll be an innocuous challenge from Milner or Barry that snaps his leg like a twig.
I would be guessing it will be billed as Bent v Dzeko type affair (assuming he starts the Zigic-a-like against us)
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Oh stop it. If the average villa fan directed a porn film the money shot would be interrupted by a cutaway of Dean Gaffney
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Excited as I am by the potential signing of Bent I can't help but think back to other strikers who were record signings. On one hand Tony Cascarino and Stan Collymore and, with the glass being half full, Peter Withe.
Though not a striker, I'm still trying to get over the signing of Tommy Craig.
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Oh stop it. If the average villa fan directed a porn film the money shot would be interrupted by a cutaway of Dean Gaffney
Ha ha.
"Dean Gaffney nicked my wank."
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"Dean Gaffney spoiled my wood"
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Meaning Evil saying Bent deal will be done tomorrow, we're not selling Young or Downing. We're interested in a left-back too but not Figueroa.
Link (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/01/18/aston-villa-darren-bent-deal-smashes-transfer-record-and-lerner-determined-to-keep-young-and-downing-97319-28003739/)
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I can't claim to know anything about him apart from his name, but Aly Cissokho looks a player from what I've read.
If we got him and Adam I'd be ecstatic.
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Not convinced about Figueroa so pleased our main target is elsewhere.
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As soon as he bangs in a couple of goals, the whole price tag thing goes away. I liked JPA very much, but he never quite put his transfer fee out of mind.
I keep having the thought that the Villa way is for him to either go 3 months without a goal or to do a Luc Nilis. I'm just being silly though, aren't I? That can't happen.
One goal in his last eight games.
He's already had his dry spell for the season.
*nervous laugh*
Mind you, he even failed to score against us.
*serious face*
Well, if Collins hadn't have pulled out that tremendous goal-line clearance, and if Gyan hadn't have been the biggest greedbag in the history of time, DB would have had a brace.
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Oh stop it. If the average villa fan directed a porn film the money shot would be interrupted by a cutaway of Dean Gaffney
Brilliant, loved that
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Some of these comments have got me nervous now. What's the story with insurance on expensive players?
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Yes Eamonn. The Villa slogan: 'Proud history, bright future, man the lifeboats'
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(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQ7fwp67D85K1-PwD1OxBtiHNAqOfP3dRJ4Avh7bXtWBmmGEce)
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The only thing that worries me is the potential for irony in Saturday's game. If De Jong doesn't get him, I have a sickening feeling it'll be an innocuous challenge from Milner or Barry that snaps his leg like a twig.
Yes, that twat Milner has already crock Delph again. Getting a bit worried that Delph is nowhere to be seen - I thought it was only a 'knock' to his knee that would be okay in a couple of weeks?
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yeah, ive heard he'll be back in training next week. Dont be surprised though at Houllier putting hi in some reserve matches first. The only reason he was playing first team so quickly was because of the bad weather all the reserve matches were being called off
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Delph has been training I believe, he just isnt fully fit.
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They know fook all about Villa, these so called experts... I heard a co-commentator on the Villa game against Sunderland I think. He said Houlier has had to eat humble pie tonight and bring back his experience players NRC and Petrov. What , the ones that have been injured for ages!!! fooking Idiot , Gale I think..
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STEVE Bruce’s bid to lure winger Stewart Downing backfired badly as Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner made an astonishing counter offer of up to £24million for Darren Bent.
England striker Bent handed in a written transfer request two hours after Sunderland’s derby with Newcastle and was yesterday negotiating a £70,000-a-week move to the Midlands.
What started with a £10m enquiry for Downing has now turned into a nightmare for Sunderland boss Bruce as his target looks set to move to Liverpool in the summer and now top-scorer Bent is discussing a switch to Villa.
Bruce admitted yesterday he was “devastated” by Bent’s transfer request having been outflanked by Lerner. He now has 14 days to find a replacement for Bent, whose move looks certain.
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Haha, it would be funny if that's how it played out.
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And to think yesterday was supposed to have been the most depressing day of the year (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/17/5859245-bummed-out-blue-monday-is-here-or-is-it).
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And to think yesterday was supposed to have been the most depressing day of the year (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/17/5859245-bummed-out-blue-monday-is-here-or-is-it).
I think that was written for Sunderland fans Joe. Maybe we should forward it to Ian Holloway later this weekwhen we steal Charlie Adam from him.
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And to think yesterday was supposed to have been the most depressing day of the year (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/17/5859245-bummed-out-blue-monday-is-here-or-is-it).
I think that was written for Sunderland fans Joe. Maybe we should forward it to Ian Holloway later this weekwhen we steal Charlie Adam from him.
My God if that happens would I like to see his face.
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Wonder how the add-ons work? £1m if we stay up, £1m if he scores 10 goals before the end of the season and £4m for the beach ball ;-)
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The January transfer window has received one of its biggest shocks in recent times as Sunderland striker Darren Bent has handed in a written transfer request in order to sanction an £18million move to Aston Villa.
If this had been mooted last summer it wouldn’t have seemed that much of a shock. Villa consolidated themselves in the top-six for a third successive season and Bent had just come off a terrific debut campaign for the Wearside outfit where he netted 25 goals in 40 appearances for a club that finished 13th. Fast forward seven months and both clubs have seemingly swapped at the other ends of the spectrum with Sunderland challenging for Europe and the Birmingham outfit fighting relegation.
Villains boss Gerard Houllier is under no illusions that the football club are crying out for a potent goal-scorer and not many fit the bill such as Darren Bent. Remarkably Bent is the third highest Premier League goal-scorer behind Didier Drogba and Wayne Rooney in the last six seasons with 81 goals. This is incredible considering that he has been engrossed in a relegation battle with Charlton Athletic, sat on the bench for the near entirety of his Tottenham career and now most recently at Sunderland who last season achieved a mid-table finish.
People will be wondering what the attraction is for him to go to Aston Villa? A club that is currently scrapping for Premier League survival where as his present employers are challenging the top-six. The simple answer, Aston Villa is still regarded as one of the country’s most respected football clubs. Wages will have played a big part in his decision, it would be naive not to think so with a reported £70,000 on the table, but even Bent realises he can prosper at a football club that will look to consolidate survival this term before challenging for Europe again next season.
He is seemingly tailor-made for the former European Cup winners. The service from out wide with the likes of Ashley Young and Stewart Downing producing diligent through balls and scintillating crosses into the box will be thrived on by Bent. Villa create so many openings but haven’t got – or had for some time – a potent goal-scorer to gobble up those opportunities. Gabriel Agbonlahor is a tremendous asset to Aston Villa but his finishing is nowhere near the level of Bent’s. A quintet of those two up top with Stewart Downing and Ashley Young out on the wings, as well as another new signing in Jean Makoun playing just behind in the middle of the park looks fantastic on paper.
In truth the club hasn’t had a striker of Bent’s calibre since the days of Dwight Yorke. Both are extremely similar in terms of their play. Both not gifted technically but are capable of conjuring up a piece of magic in front of goal with an instinct that importantly – wins matches. Yorke was a predominant figure at Aston Villa for nearly a decade where former manager Graham Taylor spotted the young skinny, yet highly talented Trinidadian, sporting his skills in an exhibition match during a pre-season tour of the West Indies in 1989. Although many Villa fans were hurt by his departure to Manchester United in 1998, 99.9% of them will all agree that his goals contributed immensely towards Villa competing for honours and European qualification almost every single year during his nine year stay at the club. Darren Bent will be treated like a god by those in the Holte-End as the fans look set to have a new hero to worship.
Sunderland fans will feel hurt by Bent’s decision but the sum of money coming their way can be used to strengthen an already talented squad that has attributes in abundance. Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck have been fantastic this term and with the transfer kitty coming in then manager Steve Bruce can add some quality to his side and clinch a top-six spot come the middle of May.
All in all, this move could satisfy all parties involved!
Ross Mackiewicz
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decent article, but to consider Dwight Yorke "not techinically gifted" is wrong in the extreme.
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decent article, but to consider Dwight Yorke "not techinically gifted" is wrong in the extreme.
I was about to say the same thing!
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And to think yesterday was supposed to have been the most depressing day of the year (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/17/5859245-bummed-out-blue-monday-is-here-or-is-it).
I think that was written for Sunderland fans Joe. Maybe we should forward it to Ian Holloway later this weekwhen we steal Charlie Adam from him.
My God if that happens would I like to see his face.
He'll probably do one of his attention seeking acts like threatening to resign again.
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And in how many of those nine years did Dwight actually contribute? The last 3 or 4? He was a hobbit when we signed him and remained that way for a fair old while.
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He was a raw teenager when he signed, dropped unfairly to make way for the returning Atkinson when he broke into the team then out injured for over a year. Once he had grown up a bit, got fully fit, and was given a deserved run in the team he was excellent for us. Your criticism seems a little harsh.
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Yorke was sensational at times. Bent is a here is ball put in net man. More Andy Cole than Yorke.
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Yorke was sensational at times. Bent is a here is ball put in net man. More Andy Cole than Yorke.
In a nutshell - how can someone say Yorkie wasn't technically gifted, in that case Pele was also workmanlike.
Anyway today is about the future - come on potato head let him go.
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From the Telegraph
Lerner had intimated that Villa would be operating a policy of one in, one out, after spending more than £140 million on transfers since buying the Midlands club in 2006. However he has agreed to shatter the club’s transfer record by making a straight-cash offer for the 26 year-old in a clear commitment of support for his under-fire manager Gérard Houllier.
What former manager Martin O’Neill makes of Lerner’s decision to allow Houllier to move for Bent is an intriguing question, and one raised by Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy yesterday.
O’Neill, a long-time admirer of Bent’s, resigned from Villa five days before the start of the season after learning that the £18 million earned from James Milner’s sale to Manchester City would not be made available to him.
“I wonder what Martin’s thinking,” McCarthy said. “He said to me that they were selling players.”
Errrr - one in one out and sell to buy - that will be the Milner money then you idiot. How many fans does MON have?
And we were selling players - all the crap ones MON paid over the odds for and then didn't play or fell out with. Why don't they get it? Oh yeh because they are all stupid journos...
We were selling players
Beye, Sidewell, Shorey, NRC, Davies etc
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Yorke was my favourite player by a mile. He was technically excellent and msn of the match almost every game for two years
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Cheered me up a tad after a funeral I was at yesterday.
Always wanted Bent here.
Laughable bullshit about O'Neill always admiring him.
His journo friends are really circling the wagons around him now.
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Maybe 'not technically gifted' means 'unable to repair oil-fired central heating systems.' Otherwise it's a very poor description of Yorke.
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Has bent signed yet ?
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I suppose if you think about it a big money move was on the cards at some point, we net spent around £20 per season in Randy's first 3 seasons, yet the last 3 windows were Jan '10 Gardner out (3 mill), Summer '10 Milner out (18 mill cash plus Ireland) Shorey out (1 mill) and this window so far Sidwell out (3.5 mill) and Makoun in (6 mill) so we made a profit of around 19.5 mill on transfers over the last 12 months before the Bent bid.
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Has bent signed yet ?
Last night Sunderland were saying they'd not accepted Bent's transfer request, what that means in this day and age I'm not sure.
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Is it true Bent is at the training ground?
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I really don't want this one to drag on. For one thing I need to do some work today and also there's the lingering worry we'll be gazumped.
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Come on. It's not like we've got a track record of screwing things up at the very last minute, is it?
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Come on. It's not like we've got a track record of screwing things up at the very last minute, is it?
HA! I expect most other supporters would be looking forward to the weekend and we're worried its going to fall through or he's going to break his leg in the first game.
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he aint gonna come, i can feel it...paper talk is gonna fuck it all up :-(
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I suppose if you think about it a big money move was on the cards at some point, we net spent around £20 per season in Randy's first 3 seasons, yet the last 3 windows were Jan '10 Gardner out (3 mill), Summer '10 Milner out (18 mill cash plus Ireland) Shorey out (1 mill) and this window so far Sidwell out (3.5 mill) and Makoun in (6 mill) so we made a profit of around 19.5 mill on transfers over the last 12 months before the Bent bid.
do you honestly think that Sidwell went for £3.5m? At most it would have been about £500k
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Sunderland will be out to get every last penny they can so i think this may last another couple of days, i would be surprised to see him in a Villa shirt this weekend.
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he aint gonna come, i can feel it...paper talk is gonna fuck it all up :-(
Just when I was getting excited you go and drop that bombshell.
Christ almighty man, have some faith. Or at least wait until there is a scrap of evidence this won't go through before you start being the prophet of doom.
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I thought ITK's last night said it WAS a done deal ?
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I suppose if you think about it a big money move was on the cards at some point, we net spent around £20 per season in Randy's first 3 seasons, yet the last 3 windows were Jan '10 Gardner out (3 mill), Summer '10 Milner out (18 mill cash plus Ireland) Shorey out (1 mill) and this window so far Sidwell out (3.5 mill) and Makoun in (6 mill) so we made a profit of around 19.5 mill on transfers over the last 12 months before the Bent bid.
Really?
If a big signing was always due at some point, that's strange, because up till yesterday, there was a considerable chunk of the user base of this website telling us that the spending had stopped / we had to sell to buy / we weren't going to spend the Milner money / Randy wanted his money back.
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Has bent signed yet ?
Last night Sunderland were saying they'd not accepted Bent's transfer request, what that means in this day and age I'm not sure.
On the radio this morning it said a fee was agreed at the weekend between the clubs, so that sounds like nonsense.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
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the media watch section of the os has plenty of quotes saying it's a done deal, they are usually pretty selective in their propaganda...
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According to 'the Trees' on VT who works at BHX, Randy landed earlier this morning...
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From bbc.co.uk/football
Former Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips believes Darren Bent's demand for a move away from the Stadium of Light is motivated by "pure money".
Phillips, 37, who now plays for Birmingham, spent six years on Wearside from 1997 to 2003.
"I'm very surprised. If you are asking me, I think it just boils down to pure money," Phillips told BBC Radio 5 live.
Aston Villa are reportedly leading the race to sign 26-year-old striker Bent, whose request was confirmed on Monday.
With the transfer window only open for another two weeks, struggling Villa are believed to have backed under-pressure manager Gerard Houllier with an £18m offer for the 26-year-old England forward.
Bent has been a key figure in Sunderland's climb to sixth in the Premier League table, scoring eight of their 24 goals this season.
However, he has only found the net twice in his last nine appearances in league and cup and Phillips believes he could face criticism from fans if they conclude his recent dry run is connected to his desire for a move.
"I speak to people who go to games week in week out and he hasn't performed in the last three or four games," said Phillips.
"They have been a little bit disappointed with him and now this is coming out they are probably putting two and two together.
"I feel sorry for [manager] Steve Bruce. They are putting together a fantastic squad and want to keep their best players."
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Would anyone else be more than happy if this deal fails to go through?
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From bbc.co.uk/football
Former Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips believes Darren Bent's demand for a move away from the Stadium of Light is motivated by "pure money".
Phillips, 37, who now plays for Birmingham, spent six years on Wearside from 1997 to 2003.
"I'm very surprised. If you are asking me, I think it just boils down to pure money," Phillips told BBC Radio 5 live.
Aston Villa are reportedly leading the race to sign 26-year-old striker Bent, whose request was confirmed on Monday.
With the transfer window only open for another two weeks, struggling Villa are believed to have backed under-pressure manager Gerard Houllier with an £18m offer for the 26-year-old England forward.
Bent has been a key figure in Sunderland's climb to sixth in the Premier League table, scoring eight of their 24 goals this season.
However, he has only found the net twice in his last nine appearances in league and cup and Phillips believes he could face criticism from fans if they conclude his recent dry run is connected to his desire for a move.
"I speak to people who go to games week in week out and he hasn't performed in the last three or four games," said Phillips.
"They have been a little bit disappointed with him and now this is coming out they are probably putting two and two together.
"I feel sorry for [manager] Steve Bruce. They are putting together a fantastic squad and want to keep their best players."
And nothing to do with his mum being racially aggrevated by his own fans!!
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
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If he does sign I hope he doesn't bunk up in the same room as Ireland.
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Signing Bent would be a brilliant signing, but just like Kevin Phillips it's a signing we should have made atleast 2/3 years beforehand.
I just thank McGrath that Redknapp has already fucked Bent off once, if not i've a feeling this is exactly the sort of deal he'd hijack with his media mates aiding as mcuh as they could.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
I thought they were going to rename it TalkSpurs?
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And to think yesterday was supposed to have been the most depressing day of the year (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/17/5859245-bummed-out-blue-monday-is-here-or-is-it).
and it was for the National press media who had buried us as also rans after O'Neill left and mis-informed one in one out crap they peddled for months.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
I thought they were going to rename it TalkSpurs?
Can't say I noticed any bias... In breaking news, riots in Tunisia, lets go over to Harry Redknapp with his opinion.
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I can understand most of the media being annoyed at this - smashing our transfer record (hopefully) wasn't in the script, we're a crisis club in disarray and even Blackpool's manager has been piling in recently to rubbish the club, its traditions, and the manager.
And now this. A lot of people must be awfully upset.
As for Yorke... arguably the most technically gifted player I've seen in a Villa shirt.
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he aint gonna come, i can feel it...paper talk is gonna fuck it all up :-(
Just when I was getting excited you go and drop that bombshell.
Christ almighty man, have some faith. Or at least wait until there is a scrap of evidence this won't go through before you start being the prophet of doom.
Never mind him, he's just afraid that he might have to give Houllier some credit.
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Am I the only person who looks at the title of this thread and thinks of Jeremy Beadle?
Oh, ok
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Has David Craig surfaced today on SSN to play everything down and try and talk the fee up ?
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Am I the only person who looks at the title of this thread and thinks of Jeremy Beadle?
Oh, ok
You're in legendary form, old boy.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
I thought they were going to rename it TalkSpurs?
Can't say I noticed any bias... In breaking news, riots in Tunisia, lets go over to Harry Redknapp with his opinion.
'Well,this Tunisia lad is s good player,but i'm not sure his club will let him go' Said Spurs boss Redknapp.
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I hope it's all done and dusted today. Yesterday for more news I actually listened to Talk Sport radio for a couple of hours.
I feel soiled.
Me too. What a tawdry little station that is. I get a crap reception over here as well, so it started to give me a headache.
It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
I had it tuned in this morning on my weekly drive into London office - I was actually shouting at the radio on my own in the car listening to Alan "the beat us in 1981" Brazil - saying why whould DB want to leave Sunderland in 6th to join a club that are fighting relegation I mean they are only just above Wigan ...
Maybe because we finished 6th the last 3 seasons and have a rich heritage and ....oh stop it I am off again !
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Villa tying up loose ends of Bent deal as we speak. Unveiling scheduled for this afternoon, hopefully
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Mat Kendrick saying on Twitter that the deal should be announced this afternoon (Well afternoon for you guys - early morning down here!)
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Has David Craig surfaced today on SSN to play everything down and try and talk the fee up ?
He was on y-day in S-land saying it may not go through and trying to say other clubs would come in for him. Also the bloke that 'revealed' Grant would be sacked after the Arsenal match and MON would replace him, 'my sources tell me...' Idiot.
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Mat Kendrick also said we havent had any approaches for young or downing
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It was still tuned into that this morning and Alan 'Oooh look at me I'm a shock Jock' Brazil was on. What a fuffing coot that bloke is. Cheap, nasty, horrible shits. Its like local radio gone bad.
In court yesterday I was sat next to the PA reporters, who work in shifts on a big case. Mike Parry used to be the boss of PA and was described as `a deeply scary person to work for'. And this from a couple of grizzled old hacks. He liked to sack people at the drop of a hat.
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Has David Craig surfaced today on SSN to play everything down and try and talk the fee up ?
He was on y-day in S-land saying it may not go through and trying to say other clubs would come in for him. Also the bloke that 'revealed' Grant would be sacked after the Arsenal match and MON would replace him, 'my sources tell me...' Idiot.
If true I hope Sky sack the t**t and West Ham sue him
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TimothyAbraham
Also now led to believe that Bent deal will be £24m straight cash deal NOT an £18m plus add-ons. All to be paid in installments. #AVFC
24 million pounds.
Crikey.
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That's... a lot of money.
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We are living in crazy times
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That's... a lot of money.
Especially from a selling club like us.
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
Is it ? Won't it be loaned to AVFC ?
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
Is it ? Won't it be loaned to AVFC ?
And if it were, who owns AVFC? And how easy would AVFC be for the owner to sell, with loans like that to repay?
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OK, wasn't on here yesterday so apologies if my below musings are respeating points already made.
I'm very happy about this (potential!) signing. Good player that will improve us and shows Randy is still 100% committed financially. I probably don't think he's quite as good as some do, but his PL goals record speaks for itself and he fits well into the 1 upfront Gezza favours.
It's been often mentioned that striker was the one position MON never got right after the signing of Carew, so the fact Gezza has gone straight after the best realistic domestic signing is a major tick in his plus column for me!
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
Is it ? Won't it be loaned to AVFC ?
And if it were, who owns AVFC? And how easy would AVFC be for the owner to sell, with loans like that to repay?
I haven't a clue how this works but aren't there 5 subsiduaries of Aston Villa? Spread the loan around and it makes it look more appealing to any future buyer.
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Perhaps the £24M is just the spin Sunderland and the press are putting on it to cover up for the fact they have had to sell and the fact they got the Randy "money problems" all wrong.
I'll bet we only have to pay £24M if we win the Champions League and Bent wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
Is it ? Won't it be loaned to AVFC ?
And if it were, who owns AVFC? And how easy would AVFC be for the owner to sell, with loans like that to repay?
BinDippers sold with +£300m debt
ManUre suitors not put off by £800m debt
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TimothyAbraham
Also now led to believe that Bent deal will be £24m straight cash deal NOT an £18m plus add-ons. All to be paid in installments. #AVFC
24 million pounds.
Crikey.
I honestly think that's too much.
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Twenty four million pounds. Aston Villa are spending twenty four million pounds on a single player. Twenty fucking four million pounds.
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
It's so much money, I'm pooing Randy's pants for him.
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Has David Craig surfaced today on SSN to play everything down and try and talk the fee up ?
They had Craig David on talking about his favourite ice cream flavour, he then gave his opinion on Darren Bent saying it would be tied up in 'seven days.'
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
It's so much money, I'm pooing Randy's pants for him.
I'm opening up a specialist laundry service.
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Twenty four million pounds. Aston Villa are spending twenty four million pounds on a single player. Twenty fucking four million pounds.
Say it quietly - if he finds out it might just finish poor Doug off!
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Who is Timothy Abrahams and why are we assuming that his figure is the correct one?
He could have easily just lifted it from that error-strewn Telegraph article.
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Twenty four million pounds. Aston Villa are spending twenty four million pounds on a single player. Twenty fucking four million pounds.
And its only Darren Bent. maybe Randy's thinking is it is worth that much to ensure that we don't go down. Pay what it takes and then we'll take it from there next summer. I doubt we'll be that busy in the next transfer windws in terms of players coming in.
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My grunts look like Brands Hatch.
Break open the liquitabs!
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Who is Timothy Abrahams and why are we assuming that his figure is the correct one?
Colonel Abrahams has just issued a statement alleging that he is trapped, like a man in a cage.
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Twenty four million pounds. Aston Villa are spending twenty four million pounds on a single player. Twenty fucking four million pounds.
Bringing all of my many years of accountancy training to bear on that, I can confirm that that is an awful lot of money.
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Who is Timothy Abrahams and why are we assuming that his figure is the correct one?
He could have easily just lifted it from that error-strewn Telegraph article.
E&S journo. Tends to get things there or thereabouts.
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
It's so much money, I'm pooing Randy's pants for him.
I'm opening up a specialist laundry service.
Who does Carol Vorderman use these days?
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Has David Craig surfaced today on SSN to play everything down and try and talk the fee up ?
They had Craig David on talking about his favourite ice cream flavour, he then gave his opinion on Darren Bent saying it would be tied up in 'seven days.'
He always gets excited during the transfer re-rewindow.
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Twenty four million pounds. Aston Villa are spending twenty four million pounds on a single player. Twenty fucking four million pounds.
Say it quietly - if he finds out it might just finish poor Doug off!
Say it loudly then!
(Only joking Doug, you're OK really!)
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It's £18m plus possible add-ons ie. another £1.5m if we stay up etc.
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Former Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips believes Darren Bent's demand for a move away from the Stadium of Light is motivated by "pure money".
Phillips, 37, who now plays for Birmingham, spent six years on Wearside from 1997 to 2003.
"I'm very surprised. If you are asking me, I think it just boils down to pure money," Phillips told BBC Radio 5 live.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sunderland/9364778.stm
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I know it's Randy's money. But I am pooing my pants a bit.
It's so much money, I'm pooing Randy's pants for him.
I'm opening up a specialist laundry service.
Who does Carol Vorderman use these days?
Chisel and Persil.
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official club photgrapher has arrived at the training ground,thats a good sign!
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(http://www.robertjschwalb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dr-evil.jpg)
Twenty four... MILLION POUNDS!!!
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Who is Timothy Abrahams and why are we assuming that his figure is the correct one?
He could have easily just lifted it from that error-strewn Telegraph article.
E&S journo. Tends to get things there or thereabouts.
People who seemed to know what was happening a long time before he spoke up were saying that it's £19m + add-ons.
Still, I'm guessing we'll find out soon enough.
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Can we just end the season now, we're out of the bottom 3, we're spending shed loads on a quality striker, I don't want us to play any more games to shatter my optimism.
Is signing a player like Bent a better feeling than actually winning a game ?
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looks like he'll be unveiled this afternoon
Also Houllier keen to wrap up Adam deal and also looking at a centre half
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its a lot of money, but its not mine so i aint worried, we got more for Milner so whats the problem,
if Bents the right man, it will be money well spent if he's the wrong man then 4mill would have been to much,
Randy wont put the club in danger regarding fianances, so hey ho, i say
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Can we just end the season now, we're out of the bottom 3, we're spending shed loads on a quality striker, I don't want us to play any more games to shatter my optimism.
Is signing a player like Bent a better feeling than actually winning a game ?
Looking at this site over the last 24 hours, I think that it must be.
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Randy touched down at BHX a while ago in his Star cruiser. Ever the precursor to shenanigans.
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Would anyone else be more than happy if this deal fails to go through?
No.
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Don't know why Kevin "Bumfluff" Phillips is chipping in with his worthless opinions on this.
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Isn't part of the problem that it's a domestic player that we've seen a lot of and could have bought on at least three occasions for much much less? If Bent were scoring at that rate in (say) the Spanish League we wouldn't bat an eyelid at those sorts of figures (except of course that it's us paying that sort of money).
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Can we just end the season now, we're out of the bottom 3, we're spending shed loads on a quality striker, I don't want us to play any more games to shatter my optimism.
Is signing a player like Bent a better feeling than actually winning a game ?
Looking at this site over the last 24 hours, I think that it must be.
It'll be alright Alan. I expect.
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Poor Carol. An intelligent, likeable broadcaster, with a career spanning many years, and all that anybody thinks of when her name is mentioned on H&V is her beskidded keks.
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I want it go through, but It's a whopping amount of money.
Still, In Randy we trust.
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Randy touched down at BHX a while ago in his Star cruiser. Ever the precursor to shenanigans.
Is his Falcon 900 on the tarmac ?
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Would anyone else be more than happy if this deal fails to go through?
No.
In fairness lots of people.
None of them Villa fans, but I'm sure they'd be popping the corks on Aldi's finest in Small Heath.
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Don't know why Kevin "Bumfluff" Phillips is chipping in with his worthless opinions on this.
Played for Villa, played for the Mackems, same position as Bent. Apart from that, you're right, totally irrelevant.
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From ESPN/Sport
Bent's Villa move expected to go through on Tuesday
Darren Bent has been a prolific goalscorer throughout his career
Darren Bent's £24 million whirlwind transfer to Aston Villa will be completed on Tuesday barring any last-minute hiccups according to ESPNsoccernet sources close to the shock Sunderland sale.
Bent is concluding personal terms after the £18 million transfer - rising to £24 million with add-ons - was agreed between the clubs, and on Sunday evening the player confirmed his desire to go by submitting a transfer request immediately after the derby game with Newcastle.
ESPNsoccernet's source close to the deal said on Monday night: "I cannot tell you the precise geographical location of Darren at this moment, but the player has been in talks with Aston Villa in the Midlands over personal terms and the transfer is progressing in the right direction.
"The terms of the deal between the clubs is agreed and I see no reason to suppose the deal won't go through very quickly."
While neither manager Steve Bruce nor Sunderland are happy, they will not stand in the player's way. Bruce confirmed the story to ESPNsoccernet and said: "I'm disappointed but that's the way it is."
A club statement on Monday afternoon read: "The club can confirm that it received a written transfer [request] from Darren Bent following yesterday's Wear-Tyne derby match."
Asked recently about the prospect of selling any of his star players, Bruce had said: "It would take crazy offers for me to consider anything. The ones who are out on loan are the ones where I would envisage there would be a bit of business to be done but, as for the big 'uns we have got, we have worked extremely hard, the chairman and the owner, to get the club in this situation, so the last thing you would want to be doing is dismantling it.
"It would take ridiculous money, absolutely, for us even to think about doing anything."
Like the Mr Potato Head said ,ridiculous Money.....but I ain,t complaining if Bent,s ' da Man '.......Godzvilla!
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I want it go through, but It's a whopping amount of money.
Still, In Randy we trust.
I feel the same for just about any transfer when it gets this close. But, yeah, that amount of money? Hmmmm.
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Don't know why Kevin "Bumfluff" Phillips is chipping in with his worthless opinions on this.
Played for Villa, played for the Mackems, same position as Bent. Apart from that, you're right, totally irrelevant.
The barber round the corner from me is the spit of Phillips.
Much like him, he sit's on a bench looking bored, waiting for a couple of minutes of action.
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Don't know why Kevin "Bumfluff" Phillips is chipping in with his worthless opinions on this.
Played for Villa, played for the Mackems, same position as Bent. Apart from that, you're right, totally irrelevant.
The barber round the corner from me is the spit of Phillips.
Much like him, he sit's on a bench looking bored, waiting for a couple of minutes of action.
...hoping for something for the weekend.
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Did Bent play against us in the recent 0-1, if he did, I don't recall him doing much (perhaps he knew then he was coming ?)
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Can we just end the season now, we're out of the bottom 3, we're spending shed loads on a quality striker, I don't want us to play any more games to shatter my optimism.
Is signing a player like Bent a better feeling than actually winning a game ?
Looking at this site over the last 24 hours, I think that it must be.
Alan aren't you the one who posted yesterday that Sunderland had rejected the transfer request? It had us all scrambling around desperately for information to the contrary. Sure it was you. If so what is your problem with Villa signing Darren Bent? You seem intent on undermining this deal. Why would you be happy if it doesn't go through as you have said you would be?
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
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Alan Clare is David Craig in disguise
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Yeah, if it falls through I'll be round at alan's with a pitchfork, demanding answers
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
Exactly, and if Milner is worth £26m then Bent is worth £20m+.
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No footballer is worth £18m (plus £3.5m per year in wages) but we aren't living in the real world here, it's a world of billionaires and egos.
I'm glad we've got Randy, who seems to have a decent grip on reality, but in no other real world business would someone gamble so much on something that doesn't guarantee a return on the investment.
I hope for Randy's sake alone we win some silverware, because he deserves it for what he has done this week.
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It's dog eat dog, we've just all got to get on with it. It happens to all clubs at all levels.
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
& what we're about to do to Blackpool
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I like what Mat Kendrick just tweeted.
He said MON could have signed an £18m striker in August 2009, but he decided to buy 3 defenders, to replace the 3 he'd previously signed.
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For £18mil you could sign a couple of striker like, Kevin Doyle, Zigic, Frazier Campbell, Dave Kitson...the list goes on. I'd rather go all out and get Bent, he'd outscore them all together.
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He said MON could have signed an £18m striker in August 2009, but he decided to buy 3 defenders, to replace the 3 he'd previously signed.
Doubtless his national media mates will say MON wanted Bent, but Randy said no.
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SSN film of Bent i think it looks like he's at The Belfry
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SSN film of Bent i think it looks like he's at The Belfry
Was he blowing his hooter on Crisp new £20 notes?
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I like what Mat Kendrick just tweeted.
He said MON could have signed an £18m striker in August 2009, but he decided to buy 3 defenders, to replace the 3 he'd previously signed.
Which wouldn't have been a problem if he had sold those three defenders and re-invested the money!
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
& what we're about to do to Blackpool
Very true.
There are ways and means of pinching players though - I'd hope we went about it the right way and spoke to the club first!
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For £18mil you could sign a couple of striker like, Kevin Doyle, Zigic, Frazier Campbell, Dave Kitson...the list goes on. I'd rather go all out and get Bent, he'd outscore them all together.
Exactly, and this is the point that Collymore missed on Talkshite last night.
You COULD buy 3 decent players for £18M.
But then 3 decent players will all be on 50K per week each.
DB will be on 80K - reportedly.
Thats a difference of 70k per week over £3.6 million per year.
£3.6 million per year over an average of a 3 year contarct = £10.8 million JUST ON wages.
Its also what MON failed to understand I guess.
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mr kendrick on twitter says that we are tying up loose ends and iunveiling will be this afternooon
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
& what we're about to do to Blackpool
Very true.
There are ways and means of pinching players though - I'd hope we went about it the right way and spoke to the club first!
We can't get in touch with Holloway, he's put the ring on and turned invisible.
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For £18mil you could sign a couple of striker like, Kevin Doyle, Zigic, Frazier Campbell, Dave Kitson...the list goes on. I'd rather go all out and get Bent, he'd outscore them all together.
Exactly, and this is the point that Collymore missed on Talkshite last night.
You COULD buy 3 decent players for £18M.
But then 3 decent players will all be on 50K per week each.
DB will be on 80K - reportedly.
Thats a difference of 70k per week over £3.6 million per year.
£3.6 million per year over an average of a 3 year contarct = £10.8 million JUST ON wages.
Its also what MON failed to understand I guess.
Plus we've signed "decent" players in the past (Sidwell, Beye, Ireland).
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£24 fucking Million woo fucking hoo...Never in my wildest dreams did I think Villa would ever spend £24M on one man but fuck it, this could be it boys & girls.
Champs league here we come :)
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For £18mil you could sign a couple of striker like, Kevin Doyle, Zigic, Frazier Campbell, Dave Kitson...the list goes on. I'd rather go all out and get Bent, he'd outscore them all together.
Exactly, and this is the point that Collymore missed on Talkshite last night.
You COULD buy 3 decent players for £18M.
But then 3 decent players will all be on 50K per week each.
DB will be on 80K - reportedly.
Thats a difference of 70k per week over £3.6 million per year.
£3.6 million per year over an average of a 3 year contarct = £10.8 million JUST ON wages.
Its also what MON failed to understand I guess.
Mat Kendrick just tweeted something to this effect.
2009 - Bent joins Sunderland for 10m.
2009 - MON buys Warnock, Dunne, Collins - total 17m - to replace Knight, Davies, Shorey - total 17m - who he'd bought over the previous two years. We also spent 8m on Cuellar.
Meanwhile the main striker purchase around that time was Marlon.
MON got plenty right as well - Cuellar for instance from the above - but if anything demonstrates how lop sided his transfer policy was, then that does.
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We can't get in touch with Holloway, he's put the ring on and turned invisible.
Don't worry - we'll be able to detect his West Country witticisms from miles away.
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For £18mil you could sign a couple of striker like, Kevin Doyle, Zigic, Frazier Campbell, Dave Kitson...the list goes on. I'd rather go all out and get Bent, he'd outscore them all together.
Exactly, and this is the point that Collymore missed on Talkshite last night.
You COULD buy 3 decent players for £18M.
But then 3 decent players will all be on 50K per week each.
DB will be on 80K - reportedly.
Thats a difference of 70k per week over £3.6 million per year.
£3.6 million per year over an average of a 3 year contarct = £10.8 million JUST ON wages.
Its also what MON failed to understand I guess.
Mat Kendrick just tweeted something to this effect.
2009 - Bent joins Sunderland for 10m.
2009 - MON buys Warnock, Dunne, Collins - total 17m - to replace Knight, Davies, Shorey - total 17m - who he'd bought over the previous two years. We also spent 8m on Cuellar.
Meanwhile the main striker purchase around that time was Marlon.
MON got plenty right as well - Cuellar for instance from the above - but if anything demonstrates how lop sided his transfer policy was, then that does.
Maybe not the time for this, but the defense (that admittedly he bought) was falling apart following the injuries to Laursen and Bouma, so was a greater priority than a striker at that time, IMO.
If anything the £12m spent on an injured Downing, wgo admittedly is looking good now, would have been better spent on Bent.
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We can't get in touch with Holloway, he's put the ring on and turned invisible.
Don't worry - we'll be able to detect his West Country witticisms from miles away.
I also don't think the invisibility thing covers the gigantic chip on his shoulder.
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If it was Liverpool or Chelsea that had just spent this amount of money on DB I get the feeling that the tabloids would be saying things differently. Looking at the positives. That he's a great goal scorer and that finally he's being given the chance he deserves at a top club. That the money is typical for an English proven striker. Where as because it is us that's spend the money then instead of it showing wer're still a force. are showing ambition it's that the world gone mad!!
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Holloway eavesdropping on The Blackpool boards discussion of Adam.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s5-W4MSwqyo/R-nT8Tg43qI/AAAAAAAAC10/hi4IdgdhbEY/s400/Smeagol-bust_L-01.jpg
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We can't get in touch with Holloway, he's put the ring on and turned invisible.
He's bobbing about on a boat in Morecambe Bay, using his feet as paddles
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Poor Carol. An intelligent, likeable broadcaster, with a career spanning many years, and all that anybody thinks of when her name is mentioned on H&V is her beskidded keks.
The ghastiliness of Carol Vorderman (http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/public-accounts/2010/03/sarah-palin-national-carol)
Now THAT's off-topic.
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I like right wing older ladies. I'm a naughty liberal boy and I need discipline.
Hmmm... better keep that one to myself.
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If it was Liverpool or Chelsea that had just spent this amount of money on DB I get the feeling that the tabloids would be saying things differently. Looking at the positives. That he's a great goal scorer and that finally he's being given the chance he deserves at a top club. That the money is typical for an English proven striker. Where as because it is us that's spend the money then instead of it showing wer're still a force. are showing ambition it's that the world gone mad!!
This is very true. It's also a mark of our lack of self esteem as fans when we question the club making a huge signing. I wonder whether some of the people here who criticised RAL in the Summer for supposedly having a sell-to-buy policy are now saying that we are spending too much? I can't see what the fuss is about as this is the bulk of the cash is from the Milner sale, and it's going to address a serious problem which has held us back as a club for a few years - scoring more goals. Some of the suggestions here that we could sign 3 or 4 players for the money like Kitson (not good enough for Stoke) or Zigic (not even good enough for the Blues) are the sorts of decisions which would lead us to relegation.
Houllier has moved to address the areas of weakness in the squad which MON would not have done i.e. quality and mobility in midfield, full back cover and more goals. As fans we have recognised these areas of deficiency for well over a season but they are problems which many PL teams have and which are very expensive to resolve. I'm very happy that the club has taken the decision to find the right personnel rather than just looking at the cost, and should MON have been allowed to use this money to buy Keane and McGeady then we would not have been much better off than we are now but with a big addition to the wage bill.
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
& what we're about to do to Blackpool
Very true.
There are ways and means of pinching players though - I'd hope we went about it the right way and spoke to the club first!
We can't get in touch with Holloway, he's put the ring on and turned invisible.
The problem now is the bar has been set higher and Charlie Adam will now be worth £20m in Holloway's eyes.
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I like right wing older ladies. I'm a naughty liberal boy and I need discipline.
Hmmm... better keep that one to myself.
Shit, I was getting aroused reading that.
I, too, maybe should have kept that to myself...
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Another thing to look at is that we've done to Sunderland what Man City have done to us twice.
Exactly, and if Milner is worth £26m then Bent is worth £20m+.
Not quite - Bent will be our star player as much as he was SUnderland's. Barry and Milner became support acts at Man City and their wage costs/transfer fees were huge compared to what they gave Man City on the pitch. I take your point, but I think its slightly different.
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Who is Timothy Abrahams and why are we assuming that his figure is the correct one?
Colonel Abrahams has just issued a statement alleging that he is trapped, like a man in a cage.
Father Abrahams asks "Vere are you all comink from?""
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It's man eat dog, we've just all got to get on with it. It happens to all clubs at all levels.
We're not linked with Park now are we?
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Am I the only one thinking that Stephen Ireland might enjoy playing alongside a player with great movement such as Bent?
Been said a million times but if we could get him playing:
Friedel
Walker Dunne Samba Figureoa
Makoun Delph / Adam
Albrighton Ireland Young
Bent
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It's man eat dog, we've just all got to get on with it. It happens to all clubs at all levels.
We're not linked with Park now are we?
Naughty :)
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Am I the only one thinking that Stephen Ireland might enjoy playing alongside a player with great movement such as Bent?
Yes
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I would like to see Ireland get his head down and try and get back in to the side when fit, I hope it happens, there's a class player in there somewhere, better than any other central midfield attacking option we've currently got. I can't see anyone signing him, so we may as well compromise with him and get him playing.
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I'd definitely prefer Ireland to immediately stop being a disappointment and get on with being as ace as we all know he can be. But how likely is that?
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Ooops, meant to post in the '£24 million thread' Now moved.
Re Ireland: can't see it happening now, Maz, I agree. Such a shame, but I'm not sure he has it in him to really give it a go at Villa. Think he'd rather take the easy option of leaving and starting again.
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Am I the only one thinking that Stephen Ireland might enjoy playing alongside a player with great movement such as Bent?
Been said a million times but if we could get him playing:
Friedel
Walker Dunne Samba Figureoa
Makoun Delph / Adam
Albrighton Ireland Young
Bent
Would rather Downing on left, Young moving inside, and Ireland preferably as far away as possible
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If we got Ireland playing with Bent and Ashley and Albrighton doing his dogged work on the right we'd probably have one of the best attacking quartets in the country.
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For all the talk of Ashley and Downing, Albrighton will be the man who provides most of the ammunition for Bent.
His crossing is superb.
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Official announcement due in approx 1 hour
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For all the talk of Ashley and Downing, Albrighton will be the man who provides most of the ammunition for Bent.
His crossing is superb.
Its certainly consistently better, but he's still plenty to learn
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SSN saying it's ready to be announced in an hour!! :D
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SSN saying it's ready to be announced in an hour!! :D
Seriously, I've got fuck all chance of getting any work done today, haven't I?
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SSN saying it's ready to be announced in an hour!! :D
Seriously, I've got fuck all chance of getting any work done today, haven't I?
Nope.
Look on the bright side though, once he is ITSOTP you can try and get a few formalities completed. If you are not too excited that is.
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SSN saying it's ready to be announced in an hour!! :D
Seriously, I've got fuck all chance of getting any work done today, haven't I?
it's at times like this that i'm almost glad to be laid up with the worlds shittiest flu despite having a fucking flu jab in November.
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I've just 'liked' him on facebook. I've just jinxed it haven't I?
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I've just 'liked' him on facebook. I've just jinxed it haven't I?
Couldn't you wait another 45 mins ;)
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http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sunderland-afc/safc-news/villa_to_land_sunderland_s_bent_in_24m_deal_1_2938956
Indication from the North East now that it will happen. Love their spin on it as well. I bet we haven't paid anything like £24m for him.
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All this talk of Young and Downing going - if I was them I would surely rethink about leaving anyway given this news.
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He is so Bent its unbelievable.
My suggestion for a random song.
I'll go now...
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I'll bet we only have to pay £24M if we win the Champions League and Bent wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
My money is on Bent!
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I refuse to have Bent on the back of my shirt.
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Right, song. Thought up last night whilst dreaming of him scoring a hat-trick on Saturday (Come on, I wasnt the only one right!)
Adams family tune
He scores them with his left foot,
He scores them with his right foot,
The goals are gonna pile up,
His name is Darren Bent...etc
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Not read all 55 pages but what number shirt will/would Bent wear?
Not normally something I'm bothered about but as our record signing and potentially the goalscorer we have not had for decades I'm not sure giving him 37 is right?
On reflection who cares! Get him in, get him playing and watch him go!!!
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We need to work any new chant around Tangerine Dream's "Bent Cold Sidewalk" featuring vocals by the "Uncle Steve" of H&V's very own Supertom.
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Not read all 55 pages but what number shirt will/would Bent wear?
Not normally something I'm bothered about but as our record signing and potentially the goalscorer we have not had for decades I'm not sure giving him 37 is right?
On reflection who cares! Get him in, get him playing and watch him go!!!
8? Why did Ireland have to be an idiot and take 9?
Edit: Pires is 8, I forgot he existed.
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Did Bent play against us in the recent 0-1, if he did, I don't recall him doing much (perhaps he knew then he was coming ?)
Yes he did and possibly had 1 half chance in a very poor Sunderland performance.
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The Bent to Chelsea rumours seem to be gathering pace now on the net. Come on Villa sign him up and prove them wrong. (And stop me panicking). >:(
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I wonder if General Krulak could sort out some kind of mobile phone jamming device around the training ground.
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Guardian seem pretty sure the deal is pretty much done http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/17/darren-bent-sunderland-aston-villa (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/17/darren-bent-sunderland-aston-villa)
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The Bent to Chelsea rumours seem to be gathering pace now on the net. Come on Villa sign him up and prove them wrong. (And stop me panicking). >:(
Where?
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The Bent to Chelsea rumours seem to be gathering pace now on the net. Come on Villa sign him up and prove them wrong. (And stop me panicking). >:(
And we're gathering the mikes for the press conference. Relax.
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
I hear he's already used some of it to hire a royal box at the theatre.
http://picvicious.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/elephant-man.jpg
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The hour approacheth.
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nothing yet on sky sports but David beckham has apparently stopped to sign autographs at spurs ::)
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Pelty said last night it was all agreed, just too late to get paperwork signed , nothing to worry about here , I expect press conference in next couple of hours- club photographer has arrived at bodymoor.
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what a difference a new manager makes eh? we'd probably be in a straight fight with blose for Keane about now in a paralell universe
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what a difference a new manager makes eh? we'd probably be in a straight fight with blose for Keane about now in a paralell universe
Yeah, 4th from bottom, what a difference.
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Press conference at 16:00, apparently.
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4pm press conference with DB / GH at B6
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Hurrah!
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what a difference a new manager makes eh? we'd probably be in a straight fight with blose for Keane about now in a paralell universe
I think Keane told Blues to f*** off even before the question was asked.
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4pm press conference with DB / GH at B6
Smashing!!!!!
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Yes get in.
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where you getting this from?
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SSN
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Yes: Aston Villa are pleased to announce the signing of Marcus Bent.
ITSOTP!
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where you getting this from?
SSN
Therefore so true, it is as if whispered by Randy himself.
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What a difference 48 hours makes. From being a goal down at Small Heath, staring another Derby defeat in the face, a relegation battle sure to follow, nothing exciting likely to happen in the transfer market...
Now this!
Optimism, looking forward to a match this Saturday for the first time in ages, as we start to climb the table and end up, who knows where...
Funny old game football.
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The Bent to Chelsea rumours seem to be gathering pace now on the net. Come on Villa sign him up and prove them wrong. (And stop me panicking). >:(
Where?
Think it started on Talksport. Trying to undermine us again no doubt. Seems bollocks now though. Hopefully.
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I think in o neills 1st season we were around the bottom 6 at this stage- managers need time, I fully expect us to finish around 10th at worst- houllier will get it right .
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nothing yet on sky sports but David beckham has apparently stopped to sign autographs at spurs ::)
I can just see it now:-
Sky cameras live at BH and everyone takes their seats. As soon as Gezza starts talking they go back to the studio - "Sorry to interrupt proceedings at Villa Park [no, that was deliberate as they won't know!], but we have breaking news as David Beckham is changing his boots!! Next up we have expert analysis of what lead to this decision and the ramifications it will have for the game."
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where you getting this from?
SSN
Therefore so true, it is as if whispered by Randy himself.
Thanks. Im at work, therefore not by a tv. Should be working mind!
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I think in o neills 1st season we were around the bottom 6 at this stage- managers need time, I fully expect us to finish around 10th at worst- houllier will get it right .
Weren't Spurs bottom of the league in October/November a couple of years agao and still could/should have made Europe.
Its so close this year that if we go on a good run Feb-April we can definately get top 8.
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Yes: Aston Villa are pleased to announce the signing of Marcus Bent.
ITSOTP!
Naughty Jimbo!
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4pm press conference with DB / GH at B6
I'll believe it when its announced on the official site rather than Sky - nothing on there yet!
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Its just been on the Radio 5 sports bulletin - £18m agreed rising to £24m, press conference this afternoon. Now I actually believe its true.
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Not seen this elsewhere, but apologies if it's already been posted. Provides a fuller picture of McCarthy's thoughts than the earlier Telegraph article that only referenced the 'I wonder what MON's thinking?' part. The last bit is the best.
By Bill Howell in the Mail (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/01/18/darren-bent-transfer-to-aston-villa-will-be-felt-throughout-premier-league-says-mick-mccarthy-97319-28003732/).
Darren Bent transfer to Aston Villa will be felt throughout Premier League says Mick McCarthy
MICK McCarthy believes Villa’s £18 million deal for Darren Bent could have a domino effect throughout the Premier League.
“It could change things,” he said. “It will throw something up, there’s no question.
“We will get to the 31st and then all start running around like blue-arsed flies because someone has become available that nobody thought would.
“Of course we’re continuing to look. We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine – that deal was as good as done and that’s what we’re looking at.
“We’d still like something like that, but if we can’t do it, we can’t do it.
“We shouldn’t stop looking elsewhere to take a chance and get players in though.”
The Wolves boss has no gripes with Villa over their sensational dart into the transfer market for Bent.
“Good for them. I just wonder what Martin O’Neill is thinking!” he joked.
“It was said to me they were selling players, but good luck to them. There’s nothing we can do to affect it. I’m sure the French midfielder (Jean Makoun) will find out how difficult the Premier League is.
“Bent has been there, seen it, done it – but it doesn’t always work out that they move and it is seamless. He has been having a great time at Sunderland, it didn’t appear he had a great time when he first went to Tottenham.
“Aston Villa are having a few problems at the minute, but finished sixth three years on the bounce. They strike me as a real top club. Going out and spending that kind of money is what top clubs do and they expect to be up near the top not near the bottom.”
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“Aston Villa are having a few problems at the minute, but finished sixth three years on the bounce. They strike me as a real top club. Going out and spending that kind of money is what top clubs do and they expect to be up near the top not near the bottom.”
Fair play to the bloke.
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Can we change the thread title to include ...now with added press conference at 4pm.
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
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I always did quite like McCarthy. Tells it like it is, without the need to become a parody of himself like Holloway.
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I've always liked Mick. He's a dour sod but you cant help but like him.
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"We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine"
Fairplay to McCarthy. thats more than we ever managed.
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
By "something Villa fans don't agree with" do you mean slagging our club off?
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
If we don't give him cause to, why would he? Villa have done nothing wrong in their pursuit of Adam but to listen to Holloway, you'd think he was dealing with a cross between Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp.
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"We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine"
Fairplay to McCarthy. thats more than we ever managed.
Ha ha ha, super stuff Gregory
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Is Bent (FA) cup tied ?
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
If we don't give him cause to, why would he? Villa have done nothing wrong in their pursuit of Adam but to listen to Holloway, you'd think he was dealing with a cross between Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp.
Absolutely - we tabled a bid for Adam and he calls us a half-arsed club for (allegedly) making it public - then in the same breath he starts talking about another club's player who he's interested in. If someone doesn't like our club that's their problem - but Holloway's hypocrisy is something else
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"We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine"
Fairplay to McCarthy. thats more than we ever managed.
I wonder if he kicked a lump out of the machine within five minutes of getting on?
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Striker Darren Bent is on the verge of completing a move from Sunderland to Aston Villa, the BBC has learnt.
A fee of £18m is believed to have been agreed for the England international after he handed in a transfer request.
"The fee starts at £18m, rising with add-ons to £24m," said BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy.
It is understood the 26-year-old could be unveiled at Villa Park later on Tuesday afternoon depending on how negotiations progress.
Bent joined the Black Cats for an initial £10m from Tottenham in August 2009 when he signed a four-year deal.
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"We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine"
Fairplay to McCarthy. thats more than we ever managed.
They didn't actually get round to turning it on though.
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"We had Steve Sidwell here on the running machine"
Fairplay to McCarthy. thats more than we ever managed.
Half my cup of tea came out through my nostrils with that one, good stuff.
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Is Bent (FA) cup tied ?
He is. Played against Notts County.
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Is Bent (FA) cup tied ?
He is. Played against Notts County.
Thanks.
Shame.
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
By "something Villa fans don't agree with" do you mean slagging our club off?
No. I mean by saying something some Villa fan doesn't agree with.
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I reserve the right to be non-plussed with any persons who publicly drag our club through the mire and besmirch its excellent name without need or cause. Sorry, Chris.
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
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Mick McCarthy = good bloke.
Ian Holloway = liked him until he disrespected us.
Phil Brown = twat.
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Meanwhile, back in the Darren Bent thread....
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SSN say it might not be finalised until tomorrow.
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
A gentleman, a cock faced bald wurzel gobshite and a harmless orange fool
...and an intergalactic bell end
in that order.
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SSN say it might not be finalised until tomorrow.
So that will be two working days lost then...
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I despise Bono though.
I bet if you put Bono in charge of plucky northern battlers Harrogate Railway, and he led them to Fat Rophy glory (second round proper), you would defend him against all comers.
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SSN say it might not be finalised until tomorrow.
SSN in front of me at the moment saying "Villa hoping to finalise Bent deal today"
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Greggs in Sunderland... it's still called Braggs!
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SSN say it might not be finalised until tomorrow.
So that will be two working days lost then...
Thank fuck I don't work for an accounting firm any more and have to fill in timesheets. "Clicking on SSN every five minutes" wasn't a valid timesheet code as far as I recall.
I've got a board meeting on Thursday though, and so far my board report is looking a bit blank.
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I wouldn't worry risso. they never read your reports anyway :)
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
You know you're only going to attract nutters with that lonely hearts ad, don't you Chris?
You're supposed to say you like country walks and shit like that.
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
You know you're only going to attract nutters with that lonely hearts ad, don't you Chris?
You're supposed to say you like country walks and shit like that.
Very good
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Gregs in Sunderland
I wish H&V was a greg free zone!
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
You know you're only going to attract nutters with that lonely hearts ad, don't you Chris?
True enough, I'm interested.
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I despise Bono though.
Ha! Bet I wouldn't, I have absolutely no affections for anything relating to this glorified retirement home.
I despise Bono though.
I bet if you put Bono in charge of plucky northern battlers Harrogate Railway, and he led them to Fat Rophy glory (second round proper), you would defend him against all comers.
I bet if you put Bono in charge of plucky northern battlers Harrogate Railway, and he led them to Fat Rophy glory (second round proper), you would defend him against all comers.
Nah, bollocks to them and Harrogate Town, Killinghall Nomads Under 8's are where it's at. Err, Daddio.
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Fair play to McCarthy - much prefer his comments to the snide hypocritical pot shots from Holloway
Until of course he dares to say something that Aston Villa supporters don't agree with.
No Chris it was the fact that he was very disrespectful.
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ah well...I was hoping this would be signed and sealed by now. Hopefully by the time i check tonight it will be all done as this sort of prolonged hysteria can't be good for the H & V servers. Did we beat the old record for number of users btw?
off down the pub.
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BBC said it was on the verge
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Shame we haven't got rid of Carew yet, otherwise he could have his number.
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Shame we haven't got rid of Carew yet, otherwise he could have his number.
Every pole dancer in the West Midlands already has his number
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ah well...I was hoping this would be signed and sealed by now. Hopefully by the time i check tonight it will be all done as this sort of prolonged hysteria can't be good for the H & V servers. Did we beat the old record for number of users btw?
off down the pub.
But the £24M question is, will the Darren Bent signing see you get your AA roadmap out to try and find Villa Park again ?
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ah well...I was hoping this would be signed and sealed by now. Hopefully by the time i check tonight it will be all done as this sort of prolonged hysteria can't be good for the H & V servers. Did we beat the old record for number of users btw?
off down the pub.
Most Online Ever: 1029 (January 05, 2011, 10:43:09 PM)
Most Online Today: 828.
Yesterday it was 953.
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I also like country walks and shit like that.
GSOH essential. No animal lovers or smokers.
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F**k off Sunderland you bunch of miserable b*stards just let him f**king sign. F**king complications every 2 p*ssing hours.
Fed up of waiting now just let the f**ker, p*ssing sign. I'm going f**king spare.
F**k all work done again! Let him f**king sign.
B*stards.
*ahem*
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I like Mick McCarthy. And Ian Holloway. And Phil Brown.
I despise Bono though.
You know you're only going to attract nutters with that lonely hearts ad, don't you Chris?
True enough, I'm interested.
Me too.
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ah well...I was hoping this would be signed and sealed by now. Hopefully by the time i check tonight it will be all done as this sort of prolonged hysteria can't be good for the H & V servers. Did we beat the old record for number of users btw?
off down the pub.
But the £24M question is, will the Darren Bent signing see you get your AA roadmap out to try and find Villa Park again ?
;D ;D ;D ;D If it takes a signing like this and everyone's Tom Tom's out again, dusted off.....then who cares. Get behind the boys come SAturday 1730.
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BBC news have just confirmed that there will be a press conference this afternoon from Aston Villa. This backs up the earlier reports from SSN and surely means that he has signed or at the very least is about to. 8)
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Ok, ok I could,nt wait any longer, i've 'liked' him on facebook
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Most Online Ever: 1029 (January 05, 2011, 10:43:09 PM)
Most Online Today: 828.
Yesterday it was 953.
Which goes to show: we prefer moaning.
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Most Online Ever: 1029 (January 05, 2011, 10:43:09 PM)
Most Online Today: 828.
Yesterday it was 953.
Which goes to show: we prefer moaning.
what happened on the 5th? Was having fun in the sun in Lanzorote!!! Is that just for the v3 version of this board or ever?
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Greggs in Sunderland... it's still called Braggs!
A van load of cup cakes, iced fancies and buns is sent up from Birmingham daily.
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Most Online Ever: 1029 (January 05, 2011, 10:43:09 PM)
Most Online Today: 828.
Yesterday it was 953.
Which goes to show: we prefer moaning.
what happened on the 5th? Was having fun in the sun in Lanzorote!!! Is that just for the v3 version of this board or ever?
We lost to Sunderland that evening.
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Greggs in Sunderland... it's still called Braggs!
A van load of cup cakes, iced fancies and buns is sent up from Birmingham daily.
I don't know what Sunderland is like, but when I went back to Newcastle for the first time in a few years recently, I was amazed at quite how many branches of Greggs there were.
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I believe Greggs Sausage rolls are known up there as 'Geordie Dummies'.
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I believe Greggs Sausage rolls are known up there as 'Geordie Dummies'.
I bought a pack of 4 yesterday, retailing at £2.25
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I don't know what Sunderland is like, but when I went back to Newcastle for the first time in a few years recently, I was amazed at quite how many branches of Greggs there were.
We stopped in a B&B just off Hadrian's Wall for a couple of nights last August - we tried sleeping in the tent, but it was far too cold for the missus - and the owners, who were from Sunderland, told us (assume accent): 'Sunderland? Sunderland? Why, it's so bad they're digging tunnels to get out!'
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Greggs in Sunderland... it's still called Braggs!
A van load of cup cakes, iced fancies and buns is sent up from Birmingham daily.
I don't know what Sunderland is like, but when I went back to Newcastle for the first time in a few years recently, I was amazed at quite how many branches of Greggs there were.
Sunderland is exactly the same. In fact, if anything, worse. Walk from station through shopping centre, I believe you walk past 4 Greggs. I may be wrong, it could be 3, could be 5, but when you see the size of the place, it is bizarre.
Haven't posted in a while, and when I do, it's on a thread about a £24m signing, about sausage rolls. Great.
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There aren't many places to get food at Newcastle Airport but of course there is a Greggs.
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Is this press confrence stuff true?
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There may or may not be any Greggs in Sunderland. There certainly isnt a Darren Bent up there anymore. ;D
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Is this press confrence stuff true?
It is. Greggs are announcing a trial run of a sausage roll/cornish pasty combination.
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Reports suggest Steve Bruce is already busy making plans on what he's going to do with the £18m fee for Darren Bent.
He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
They don't have Greggs in Sunderland... it's still called Braggs!
A van load of cup cakes, iced fancies and buns is sent up from Birmingham daily.
Is that to be included in the Bent "add-ons".
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Sky just can't put us down enough can they, they're now describing the deal as "the 2nd biggest deal of the window"
With plenty of emphasis on the 2nd bit
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My second song suggestion. Its very topical:
Darren Bent is a cornish pasty!
Oh yes, I can feel the improvement.
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Sky just can't put us down enough can they, they're now describing the deal as "the 2nd biggest deal of the window"
With plenty of emphasis on the 2nd bit
Have they said owt about sausage rolls?
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At least a new bird on SSN....
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At least a new bird on SSN....
I prefer Georgie
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Does she like Greggs too?
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Have they said owt about sausage rolls?
They will if Beckham has one.
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SSN are still some way behind H&V when it comes to the latest savoury snack based news and views.
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At least a new bird on SSN....
Did you see the Asian weather bird earlier, phhooooaaaarrrr
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
You know you typed that out loud, don't you?
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Darren Bent, Darren Bent, Darren Darren Bent
Can't believe how much we spent
Darren Darren Bent
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
Post of the day.
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Is this press confrence stuff true?
The amount of media reporting it suggests they've been briefed to expect something and they're assembling at VP.
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Darren Bent, Darren Bent, Darren Darren Bent
Can't believe how much we spent
Darren Darren Bent
Darren Bent, Darren Bent,
Darren Darren Bent,
Likes Greggs not Braggs so off he went,
Darren Darren Bent
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
Business as usual today then in the supertom household.....
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WM have dispatched a reporter up there too... must be happening if they have leave the reporting on Walsall and Wolves alone.
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
Business as usual today then in the supertom household.....
Nah, haven't you heard? He's got a missus for this stuff now. From what Tom's said above I'm guessing his gf is just not into football and sees it as his hobby to enjoy by himself.
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AVFC.com just said they have nothing to confirm yet.
Where is Pelty? If I knew that the fax at VP was broken, I would have lent them mine!!!
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I've done no work for two entire days, and I'm now starting to get bored of this.
GERRONWIVITVILLA
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It was on the verge at 130 its 330 now, whats going on?
OS says no update as yet. Its Bruce I knew it the bastard!! Did I mention i'm panicing?
Chelsea aint trying to scupper it are they?
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http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2270020,00.html?
Comprehensive update from the club.
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Be interesting to see if Ireland gets a look in now.
Bent is the ideal foward for Ireland to play off, always looking for a through ball, unlike any other foward we have.
A strike force of
................................................................Bent.............................................
AYoung...............................Ireland..........................................Gabby.
Would for me be very exciting.
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I can't see Chelsea coming in for him.
Their days of spending £20m on a player are over now that Care in the community Roman has tightened the purse strings.
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I wish they'd hurry up and confirm it so I can go rub one off in delight! I'm champing at the bit here. Trousers have been ankled, hand cream is ready to go, and tissues at the ready. I just need to see the dry ink, and that's my starters pistol.
???
;D
Business as usual today then in the supertom household.....
Nah, haven't you heard? He's got a missus for this stuff now. From what Tom's said above I'm guessing his gf is just not into football and sees it as his hobby to enjoy by himself.
Ha ha!
I'm still keckless and waiting at half mast. The gf is not remotely interested in football. It's my dirty little hairy handed secret. A lads gotta do, what a lads gotta do.
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I can't see Chelsea coming in for him.
Their days of spending £20m on a player are over now that Care in the community Roman has tightened the purse strings.
I know but its squeaky bum time for me especially as I only got 4 mins of my break left!!!
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I hope Bent wears a diamond pattern polyester jumper the same as Makoun at his press conference.
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I hope Bent wears a diamond pattern polyester jumper the same as Makoun at his press conference.
I thought that was a nice top actually, could cut a bit of a dash in that.
I turned 30 last July by the way.
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I hope Bent wears a diamond pattern polyester jumper the same as Makoun at his press conference.
I'm looking for Gabicci, but i'll settle for Pringle.
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I hope Bent wears a diamond pattern polyester jumper the same as Makoun at his press conference.
Found a nice replica for anyone interested
http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Boxfresh+Argyle+crew+neck+jumper/143339465,default,pd.html
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He'll turn up with over-sized headphones on
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He'll turn up with over-sized headphones on
As long as he turns up
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I can't see Chelsea coming in for him.
Their days of spending £20m on a player are over now that Care in the community Roman has tightened the purse strings.
Villa outspending Chelsea - who'd have thunk it??
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Help! Some people are getting their Tom Toms out, some are on the verge and another has bought a pack of 4!
Can the planet stand the eruptions taking place soon after 4 o'clock?
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This delay is getting past(y) a joke.
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4.30 press conference now.
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"I'm in Villa Park now in the 1874 lounge. Latest estimate is 4.30pm press conference. It's happening, it's happening, it's happening"
From Mat Kendrick on Twitter!
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4.30 press conference now.
If they could just put it back another 45 minutes or so I could be out of work and infront of the tele.
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I've just been up to VP, there didn't seem to be anything happening and I thought it was all going on at Bodymore.
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Matt Kendrick has just posted I might have just seen a montage of Bent pictures, including one in a Villa shirt!
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OMG OMG! I have no football games! I must buy one, so I can, in due course, get the transfers going and then play with Benty up front!
I still reckon this is all a mistake. We're actually signing Marcus Bent for 2.4million. That, 2 weeks ago, would have seemed far more realistic.
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Matt K @ Evening Mail:
'Far be it from me to give away privileged info, but I might have just seen a montage of Bent pictures, including one in a Villa shirt'
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OMG OMG! I have no football games! I must buy one, so I can, in due course, get the transfers going and then play with Benty up front!
Just make sure you've pulled your strides up first or people might get the wrong idea by that.
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any ideas where to listen to the press conference on-line?
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
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A pretty little filly.
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Oi! I saw her first.... She ain't bad.
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She's no Sarah Falkland.
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Pictures please!
I don't have the luxury of Sky Sports.
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Matt K @ Evening Mail:
'Far be it from me to give away privileged info, but I might have just seen a montage of Bent pictures, including one in a Villa shirt'
ITSOTM
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any ideas where to listen to the press conference on-line?
BBC Radio WM is where its at. Woo Hoo.
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"I'm in Villa Park now in the 1874 lounge. Latest estimate is 4.30pm press conference. It's happening, it's happening, it's happening"
From Mat Kendrick on Twitter!
I miss the days when signings were paraded at Villa Park. I don't like the way we started using Bodymoor Heath for introducing new signings.
There is something of the marquee about this one!
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Never mind SSN, send Damon round to see if Supertom has had his vinegar strokes yet.
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BENT has gone too Sheff United
sorry wrong one ;D
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1874 Lounge filling up with press. Conference reckoned to be for 4.45.
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As tweeted elsewhere. Inside Villa Park and Darren Bent is on #AVFC own channel briefly in a Villa shirt. All of sudden the channel changed.
timothy abraham (via Twitter)
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Confirmed by Henry Winter and Timothy Abraham Bent on AVFC channel in Villa shirt
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Challenger, go with throttle up
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I'd give Charlie Webster some legendary sexin'.
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6148/wwqdwqwq.jpg)
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Interesting that SSN are still saying we're "hoping to complete it today", there's been no word from Sunderland on it, but the written press are at VP waiting for a press conference.
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I'd give Charlie Webster some legendary sexin'.
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6148/wwqdwqwq.jpg)
Said the same myself a few pages back.
She's gorgeous isnt she? I tend to try not to watch SSN mostly, but her and that Hayley thingy, crikey.
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from OS
"villa are aware that supporters are waiting patiently for news on Darren Bent
The club have nothing toconfirm at present but rest assuredwhen there is any news to release you'll be updated here first"
does that mean someone is waiting to click the post button on there computer?????
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
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Ding dong, i'm heading back to the UK soon to see the folks, I will certainly be watching Sky Sports news when she is on... I will be glued to the TV!
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(http://img224.imagevenue.com/loc839/th_18470_MVP00008_122_839lo.jpg)
Hayley McQuuen is lovely. I can't believe that ugly bastard Gordon had anything to do with her.
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Which one is it?
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Which one is it?
Charlie something.
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charlotte jackson is the best... millie clode is cute, but does have an odd nose...
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Thank you Chris, this has all gone far too Partridge in here
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Which one is it?
Charlie something.
A trim little craft.
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Yess. Yes. Pull yourselves together. But what is happening with Bent. Dear me.
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Charlie Webster> Millie Clode > Hayley McQueen > The Irish bird... then everybody else.
And now I feel like a teenager.
Does anybody have one spare?
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Yess. Yes. Pull yourselves together.
It sounds like they all are Simba. :o
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Yess. Yes. Pull yourselves together. But what is happening with Bent. Dear me.
Ooohh ,matron
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charlotte jackson is the best... millie clode is cute, but does have an odd nose...
Wouldn't really kick any of them out of bed, wonky nose or no.
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Ok can't get attention:
Bent over.....
Now some news.
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Millie>all
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Rumour has it we may be unveiling somebody else.....hence the delay.
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Charlie Adam?
Unknown Secret Left Back?
Talbot Samba?
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Bent over.....
Simba for Gods sake man dont encourage them. ;D
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Please God it is not one of the SSN girls.
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I've got SSN on Villastreams channel 5
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You still cannot top Kirsty Gallagher as the all time sky sports news eye candy!
Ok sorry, back to the footy... who else is coming.. erm to VP?
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Christ Sky, enough with the boring tax avoidance, get some Bent on!
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Rumour has it we may be unveiling somebody else.....hence the delay.
I cn't believe that we would detract form a club record transfer by diluting it with another unveiling.
Lets save that one for tomorrow !!
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Stuck in the bloody library, aren't BBC streaming it?
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The SSN girlies are all very regular tweeters too!
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SSN feed...
http://www.show-sports.net/Channel%201.html
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Andy at SkySports Twitters:
Press pack are gathered at Villa Park & primed for the unveiling of one Darren Ashley Bent. Have Villa finally bought a regular goalscorer?
Villa close to unveiling Darren Bent. Word is he's been photographed already in #avfc shirt but awaiting confirmation.
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The SSN girlies are all very regular tweeters too!
Hahaha creepy......
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Jurassic Park.
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So exciting!
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Sarah jane mee, charlootte Jackson, millie clode , georgie thomson in that order!
What's these rumours of another signing unveiled besides bent? Any reliable source on it,?
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OK I give up. I like the weather girl with the dark hair, sultry smile and nice sense of humour. But she has gone now? What was her name?
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OK I give up. I like the weather girl with the dark hair, sultry smile and nice sense of humour. But she has gone now? What was her name?
Not Shefali if she has a sense of humour.
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
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OK I give up. I like the weather girl with the dark hair, sultry smile and nice sense of humour. But she has gone now? What was her name?
Michael Fish?
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My word.
That young lady on SSN is very, very pretty indeed.
Ooh I'd like to have it off with her.
Jurassic Park.
Cashback.
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OK I give up. I like the weather girl with the dark hair, sultry smile and nice sense of humour. But she has gone now? What was her name?
Wincey Willis?
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What time is press conference ? It seems to keep being put back?
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Fuck off Pienaar.
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Celebrity Gossip Twitters:
Steve Bruce already making plans on what he's going to do with the £24M fee for Darren Bent. He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
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I have to say I love how this thread has turned us all into giddy schoolboys, getting excited about goings on in B6 and which girl is the fittest.
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
Had some great parties with Shefali but i do get to see her nearly everyday
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Lucy kite?
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OH FGS
Moderator!!!
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Celebrity Gossip Twitters:
Steve Bruce already making plans on what he's going to do with the £24M fee for Darren Bent. He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
You're about an hour late with that one.
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Lucy kite?
no chance....loves herself too much !
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None of them are as sexy as the thought of Darren Bent scoring twenty goals next season.
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It must surely be time for the 768th airing of the "deal worth 24m - 30m plus Heskey" joke?
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None of them are as sexy as the thought of Darren Bent scoring twenty goals next season.
who ?....oh yeah, forgot about that.
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Lucy Verasamy
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I was looking for some broken signs on google.
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This waiting is stressing me out!!!
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Oh joy. We get to look at Redknapps fucking face again.
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Does Pienaar to Spurs mean that they won't be after Young any more do you reckon?
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
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Oh joy. We get to look at Redknapps fucking face again.
that reminds me, i need to buy some more candles... all of mine are melted...
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Celebrity Gossip Twitters:
Steve Bruce already making plans on what he's going to do with the £24M fee for Darren Bent. He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
You're about an hour late with that one.
Oh bloody hell. Here I go apologising again.
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Lucy Verasamy
very nice
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Anyone got a link to the streams of sky sports?
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Lucy Verasamy
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Celebrity Gossip Twitters:
Steve Bruce already making plans on what he's going to do with the £24M fee for Darren Bent. He's going to pay off his tab at Greggs.
Oh bloody hell. Here I go apologising again.
You're about an hour late with that one.
And you're suffering from quote fail.....
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
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Anyone got a link to the streams of sky sports?
http://www.show-sports.net/Channel%201.html
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SSN Stream:
http://www.show-sports.net/Channel%201.html
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Many thanks JP and PMN5S
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Fuck Bent. What's the Weather like ? God I give up.
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
Eh? Rooney, Lescott?
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
He's running his contract down, so makes sense
He's not one of their top five players mind
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
He's running his contract down, so makes sense
He's not one of their top five players mind
I think most Everton fans would disagree with that.
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His contract is up at the end of the season, its a couple of million now or bugger all in June.
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Oh joy. We get to look at Redknapps fucking face again.
that reminds me, i need to buy some more candles... all of mine are melted...
He did not say 'for sure' though.
Fair play I say.
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
Eh? Rooney, Lescott?
I know. But it's not long since we were hearing that Everton don't sell their best players so why should we?
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STEVEN PIENAAR IS GOING TO TOTTINGHAM HOTSPUDS!!!!!!
apparently...
Is he leaving the Everton who never sell their best players?
I DONT KNOW BUT SSN KEEP REMINDING US HE IS OFF TO SPURS!!! SPURS!!!!!
oops, sorry for the shouting, but i am currently in ssn mode when it comes to discussing tottingham hotspuds and their melty faced manager...
now, back to darren bent and the ssn ladies...
;-)
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This is beginning to drag on a bit now!
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I have to get my daughter from nursery, it's bound to happen when i'm gone!
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
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Bugger, Villastreams has died, just as I was listening intently to Nat Lofthouse as well.
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Great !!
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youre missing a cadburys cream advery risso...
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Bugger, Villastreams has died, just as I was listening intently to Nat Lofthouse as well.
theres a 10 pm special on him tonight
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Do I hang around in the office and wait for the unveiling or do I make a dash for it back home? Decisions decisions.
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My VAT needs doing.. get it done so I can work...
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Dave?
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youre missing a cadburys cream advery risso...
This thread needs a Cadburys Flake advert. :o
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picture from timothy abrahams twitter page
http://twitpic.com/3r7hip
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Great, yet more Redknapp.
Sky should just give him his own fucking channel.
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Sky Redknapp HD
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Do I hang around in the office and wait for the unveiling or do I make a dash for it back home? Decisions decisions.
I think you could crawl home and still make it at this rate. :-\
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Dave?
I bring you transfer exclusives, not obnoxious weatherwomens' sexual proclivities reports.
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Bugger, Villastreams has died, just as I was listening intently to Nat Lofthouse as well.
Back on Ch5.
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Dave?
No i wouldnt say that was the case she likes a good party and many think shes up herself but shes alright when you get to know her
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fuck off redknobb, you melty faced twitching cockerney barra boy...
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SkySports:
http://www.firstrow.net/watch/11124/1/watch-skysports-news-live.html
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fuck off redknobb, you melty faced twitching cockerney barra boy...
Ha ha! Excellently done sir!
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Sounds like their as bored as us at Villa park the only info im getting is what food is being brought out!
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I haven't got any sound at the moment. What's so important that they're talking to Keane ?
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picture from timothy abrahams twitter page
http://twitpic.com/3r7hip
not many in there , looks like blose ground...
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Sounds like their as bored as us at Villa park the only info im getting is what food is being brought out!
Sausage Rolls?
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Dave?
I bring you transfer exclusives, not obnoxious weatherwomens' sexual proclivities reports.
You're a lot more discreet than on the old board.
Have we signed Bent yet?
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
What exactly is a figurative fuck? I mean . Have we signed Bent yet?
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I haven't got any sound at the moment. What's so important that they're talking to Keane ?
Keane said that he was never going to join Blues, never talked to them so he does not know why they made that statement yesterday. he said that they were probably seeking publicity
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Latest:
Bent has joined Sheffield United on loan for the rest of the season.
Zola has joined Burton Albion on a free.
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What are all these rumours about a second signing? Surely it wouldn't be possible to keep somebody else totally seceret in this day and age?
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Sounds like their as bored as us at Villa park the only info im getting is what food is being brought out!
Sausage Rolls?
Past 'sell by date' mince pies apparently !
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£18m = 36 McGraths and a David Platt with some change to spare. No pressure Daz
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
What exactly is a figurative fuck? I mean . Have we signed Bent yet?
Literally speaking.
I am quoting myself for Christ sake.
News!
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There is something sexy about Shefali - as well as her big boobies !!
I heard from a couple of friends who worked at BBC that she was filthy and easy. Figuratively speaking, not literally.
Damon is bound to know.
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What are all these rumours about a second signing? Surely it wouldn't be possible to keep somebody else totally seceret in this day and age?
My guess is it's Nigel Callaghan and Ian Ormondroyd.
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How many pages do we reckon by the announcement
I'm going for 75
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79
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£18m = 36 McGraths and a David Platt with some change to spare. No pressure Daz
Two thirds of a Veron or one and a half Steve Marlets.
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23. But then I am viewing this with 50 posts/page.
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Just sign the fucker
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eleventytwelve...
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Avram Grant staying at the Spammers. That's them down then.
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With regards to Sandy (Loves MON) Macaskill's highly informative and accurate article from the Telegraph, I saw this comment below from a reader which perfectly summed up what he got wrong in the article.
I was also interested to read that on the Journalisted website a word cloud of Macaskill's articles reveals that 'Martin O'Neill' is one of the phrases he uses the most. As the youth of today say, pwned!
Desperate Villa plead with Bent to save them from relegation (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8265494/Randy-Lerners-panic-purchase-of-Darren-Bent-is-evidence-of-mounting-desperation-at-Aston-Villa.html)
My, you don't like Villa much do you?
A couple of points. The local journos much closer to the story than you are, say that the deal is £18M up front and £6M possible add-ons depending on Villa's performance. Alot of money sure, but get the facts right.
Secondly, the reason the blessed Martin didn't get the money was because he failed to shift the deadwood from the squad - as he agreed to do - over several transfer windows. His legacy was a couple of fantastic signings (Young and Milner) and a whole series of expensive dross, that he brought to the club on massive wages, and yet never played. He threw his toys out of the pram and left - though I am sure he saw the writing on the wall that the chickens were coming home to roost with his poor squad assembly.
Thirdly, to say Houllier has failed with the same players is frankly, stupid. Do you know how many injuries Villa have had this season? At times there have been 8 or 9 first team players out. O'Neill would have certainly struggled in the circumstances and I doubt he would have shown such faith in Villa's youngsters - a move that will no doubt prove a benefit to the club in the future.
Finally - when is a signing an act of desperation as opposed to one of ambition? I suppose it depends on the angle you are trying to get across. How is Martin by the way?
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Why the delay in announcing it? Do they not realise I'm going out in a bit?
Hope there hasn't been a snag.
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I will be pushing up the daises by then. Seriously does anyone have the time of a press call. Will there be one tonight?
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Why the delay in announcing it? Do they not realise I'm going out in a bit?
Hope there hasn't been a snag.
I've got a similar problem
The Mrs is just home from work and she's going to start getting arsey about having SSN on soon enough.
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Why the delay in announcing it? Do they not realise I'm going out in a bit?
Hope there hasn't been a snag.
I've got a similar problem
The Mrs is just home from work and she's going to start getting arsey about having SSN on soon enough.
Hot an hour before that becomes an issue!!!
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I'm just going to stay at work and do some "overtime"...
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Am at work, are there really jouno's gathered at Villa for a Press Conference?
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Press conference at 7pm now
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I'm just going to stay at work and do some "overtime"...
Ha ha ha.
There is something witty to say here, but I don't really know what it is.
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Mrs east has the remote tonight after 7 - I hope it's done by then, I've been hanging around all day and it keeps getting put back - what's going on?
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My bœuf bourguignon has about two hours to simmer, so they can take their time if they like.
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put your foot down paulie... tell her to respec your authoritaaa!!!
(http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/c/cartman_respect_my_authority-11123.jpg)
and if she doesnt, hit her over the head with a stick...
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Fuck me, I'm off for a jog in 20 minutes. Could they not get a chuffing move on! I'm liable to, in a daze, jog out in front of a bus. Or end up getting smacked in the face by my jogging partner for ignoring her the entire time, whilst mumbling under my breath continually, "I wonder if we've got Bent yet!" She'll wonder what the frig I'm on!
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Press conference 6-7.30pm.
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TimothyAbraham Timothy Abraham
Bent deal HAS NOT YET gone through just been informed by a member of #AVFC press staff.
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I'm delasying going home - to my gorgeous little son -because of darren bloody bent. I hope the time with him that I'll never now have is going to be worth it and he signs soon. And he;'s then good. its one thing missing out on time with my son, its another thing not seeing a signing over the internet. Hurry up!
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MatKendrick Mat Kendrick
#avfc I'm being told 6.30-7 for unveiling now.We must be patient.
via twitter
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The sooner we employ a secretary who can use a word-processor to type the contract rather than the old codger who seems to write them out on parchment with a quill.
Why does it always take us so long to sort things out?
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Press conference 6-7.30pm.
Ah fuck it.
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Press conference at 7pm now
Must mean another signing.
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I'm just going to stay at work and do some "overtime"...
Ha ha ha.
There is something witty to say here, but I don't really know what it is.
Clearly not working in the public sector.
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Why the delay in announcing it? Do they not realise I'm going out in a bit?
Hope there hasn't been a snag.
I've got a similar problem
The Mrs is just home from work and she's going to start getting arsey about having SSN on soon enough.
Run her a hot bath - that should buy you at least half an hour (although she'll probably think you're having an affair or something equally guilty to hide)
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Press conference at 7pm now
Fucking hell, I hope he has actually signed. They will miss Midlands Today with that now.
I'm going to the pub.
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Just sign the fucker
There we go, some relevant, concise and erudite comment at last.
Thank you Phil for bringing some maturity on here.
I agree with him.
Now. About the Weather girls.....
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http://www.safc.com/news/20110118/bent-completes-villa-move-_2256213_2270176
Done deal folks - Welcome Dazza.
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Darn, all that waiting around...could have got some work done. At least we have an hour where we know nothing will happen.
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See you all back here in an hour then!
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Not gone through yet, I thought pelty said it was agreed last night but it was too late to paperwork signed and sent , is this potato head having a laugh?
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On the website now.
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Deal done. OS.
Welcome Darren.
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SSN _ THE DEAL IS NOW DONE
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defo done. at bloody last.
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Am at work, are there really jouno's gathered at Villa for a Press Conference?
They're making them buy their own drinks and food at The Holte - it will help contribute to the new wage bill!
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SSN saying done. Get in.
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SSN Deal now done.
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(http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/94/a8/0,,10265~9349268,00.jpg)
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WE GOT BENT!!! .... wait, that sounded so much better in my head.
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I just fuking told you lot that from Sunderlands website. When you going to credit me with an exclusive!!
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Why delay our press conference I wonder? Getting even more excited now!
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Deal done and dusted!!! Come on then my son.
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Woo hoo!
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http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269623,00.html
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According to Sunderland it has.
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He is here ! Signed sealed delivered!
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269623,00.html
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get in there!!
(http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/94/a8/0,,10265~9349268,00.jpg)
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http://www.safc.com/news/20110118/bent-completes-villa-move-_2256213_2270176
Done deal folks - Welcome Dazza.
I hope the "reaction to the move" isn't "We thank Darren for his service and wish him all the best." I hope they're honest and say "Hope the ****** never scores again."
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Welcome to Villa Darren.
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Superb. Makes you wonder about the delayed press conference though. Surely not another one?
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Deal done and dusted!!! Come on then my son.
So much for heading off for an hour! Deadly!
Maybe the conference is delayed because the lad is hungry! I know I am after waiting around!
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meh. hasn't scored for us yet. What a waste of 300 million he is. Hullier and Randy OUT.
GOOD NIGHT.
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Signed.
http://bit.ly/glWRei
Wonderful.
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Hmmmm, press conference delayed for another hour and a half according to the Twitter journos. Wonder what the hold up could be?
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Welcome Mr Bent. Now get some goals and fast. Please.
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Press conference 19:00
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By the looks of that picture this was done and dusted earlier in the day.
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great signing! press confrence 7pm at villa park!
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Nice one Villa, welcome Darren may the force be with you!
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Wahay welcome Mr Bent, go and make yourself a legend bruva!
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Bingo Wings!! Welcome Darren...
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Welcome to the Villa Darren
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Hmmmm, press conference delayed for another hour and a half according to the Twitter journos. Wonder what the hold up could be?
Maybe they all want some dinner.
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Hmmmm, press conference delayed for another hour and a half according to the Twitter journos. Wonder what the hold up could be?
Messi's plane has been delayed.
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Superb. Makes you wonder about the delayed press conference though. Surely not another one?
Charlie Adam ?
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did pete colley just say that bent signed on the dotted line this morning???
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FUCKING YAY!
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Great news- I hope it's bang on 7 as sky have a soccer special at 7 30 and I wanna watch our press conference rather than listen to cottee and walsh droning on about west ham and spurs. Excellent to have darren bent - welcome to our club dazza!
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Superb. Makes you wonder about the delayed press conference though. Surely not another one?
Charlie Adam ?
That thought crossed my mind but if it was him Holloway would have been all over the media saying how unfair it all is for his best player to go to a 'half-arsed club'!
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This is huge for us!
avfc site has an interview with Bent already.
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Stunning stuff - this has superseded even the most optimistic of my hopes for this window.
Well done to all concerned!!
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Welcome to the best Club in the world, Darren.
Looking forward to seeing your hat trick on Saturday. ;)
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Unless it's started going dark a lot later in Brum these days, it was clearly all finished much earlier in the day.
Conspiracy theory of additional Adam/Keane/Messi/Palmer/Bull signing
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"To mark the signing, 1,000 web exclusive tickets of just £15 are being made available.
Tickets are for Trinity Upper Wings only. "
Nice offer for anyone who hasn't already got their ticket.
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Welcome Darren.
Ten goals by May please. Thanks.
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Hmmmm, press conference delayed for another hour and a half according to the Twitter journos. Wonder what the hold up could be?
Messi's plane has been delayed.
What so Young, Bent, Keane and Messi. Now that sounds like a Tory MP's wet dream.
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I think this will do a lot to improve the mood of the other players. Like Mccarthy said its the sort of thing big clubs do, maybe some of our players had forgotten what a big club they were at. This should help remind them.
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That Villa shirt belongs on him doesnt it?
FUCKING GET IN THERE!!!!!
This completes a 6 year period of me lobbying to sign this man. I'd like to thank my agent, my lawyer, my buffer...
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If we get someone else in by 7pm i'll be happy but for the moment this is fantastic!
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ITSOTP!
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Bruce sounds well pissed off about it all - wonderful, anyone see robbie keane say there was never a move on to blues and that he hasn't a clue what they are talking about yesterday- said he thought they were just seeking publicity.
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Wanted him for years.
Get the fuck in.
Welcome Dazza.
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i cant wipe the smile off my face...
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Wondeful. Absolutely wonderful.
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Any idea what his squad no. is?
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We spent up to 24m on a striker in 1 day. Who would of thought it!
N Zogbia next please. Hopefully we can offload a few to raise some capital for him the guy is class.
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Any idea what his squad no. is?
Nope, but I'd guess it'd be 22?
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Unless it's started going dark a lot later in Brum these days, it was clearly all finished much earlier in the day.
Conspiracy theory of additional Adam/Keane/Messi/Palmer/Bull signing
I was told about an hour ago that it was signed this morning.
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Just what we need.
Onwards and upwards.
A left back and Charlie Adam now please.
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Houllier give him number 9 shirt. It's wasted on Ireland.
Darren you should be so proud joing this great Club.
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No. 9
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It'll lift the whole place. I expect Villa Park will be rocking on Saturday!
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Any idea what his squad no. is?
Well I presume Jean II will have number 4......So it could be 15 or it will be high 30's/low 40's
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It'll lift the whole place. I expect Villa Park will be rocking on Saturday!
They said on SSN earlier that tickets sales for Saturday were now going very well. Could well be a sell out now he's actually signed.
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That Villa shirt belongs on him doesnt it?
FUCKING GET IN THERE!!!!!
This completes a 6 year period of me lobbying to sign this man. I'd like to thank my agent, my lawyer, my buffer...
Fair play Maz, you have long been a champion. I started a wee while after, but have wanted him for a long, long time. Just stunned and equally delighted. Well done Randy, GH and Paul Faulkner for making it happen.
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I wanted him since his 20 goals for Charlton.
Only 5 years ago to Mazrim's 6.
Anybody who could do that playing for that shower of shit, had to be good.
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Welcome MR B
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He's Bent
He's Straight
And now he's f**kin great
Darren Bent, Darren Bent
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It'll lift the whole place. I expect Villa Park will be rocking on Saturday!
They said on SSN earlier that tickets sales for Saturday were now going very well. Could well be a sell out now he's actually signed.
What a statement of our intent! We mean business! This could be one of those days we'll look back on in years to come as the turning point. This could be our Cantona moment (maybe I'm a bit over excited but can you blame us!).
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Darren Deal Done! Definitely delighted.
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Why the delay to 7pm for the press conference? I really hope there is more good news and ITK's are correct that there might be another chair needed for the conference.
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He doesn't drink alcohol by all accounts.
Take note Dunne and Warnock.
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Cracking signing, so chuffed! Looking forward to the press conference later on, nice to hear his positive words about the club too. :D
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Get in!!
Am so happy...cant wait for Saturday.
I reckon he'll have the new trendy football number.....39.
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Great news!!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I was hugely disappointed when MON failed to sign him from Spurs and now hugely delighted we've got him. It's gone through so quickly too - from a rumour yesterday morning to ITSOTP today. Congrats to all involved - that's how to do a top quality transfer professionally
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Welcome aboard Darren.
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Never mind SSN, send Damon round to see if Supertom has had his vinegar strokes yet.
He'll only show him a picture of Dean Gaffney.
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The Online Ticketing is in meltdown - good news for Saturday! Picked up a Wigan ticket earlier - C'mon you Lions!
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The great thing about this signing is that if/when Houllier gets the sack, the new manager is bound to keep Bent as any manager would want a 20 goal a season striker in their line up.
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That Villa shirt belongs on him doesnt it?
FUCKING GET IN THERE!!!!!
This completes a 6 year period of me lobbying to sign this man. I'd like to thank my agent, my lawyer, my buffer...
I hope you're on commission Maz.
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The great thing about this signing is that if/when Houllier gets the sack, the new manager is bound to keep Bent as any manager would want a 20 goal a season striker in their line up.
???
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That Villa shirt belongs on him doesnt it?
FUCKING GET IN THERE!!!!!
This completes a 6 year period of me lobbying to sign this man. I'd like to thank my agent, my lawyer, my buffer...
lets not forget the Yak Maz. Still, you might have been right about him at the time1
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Never mind SSN, send Damon round to see if Supertom has had his vinegar strokes yet.
He'll only show him a picture of Dean Gaffney.
I have a Dean Gaffney mask for doorstep handjob interruptions.
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It feels fantastic to be a Villa fan today, Saturday just can't come soon enough. Villa Park will be full and rocking, thank you so much to Randy Lerner and all concerned.
Full credit to Darren Bent as well, he must think a lot of our club to join us at our lowest point for years.
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If you'd told me a week ago we would be signing Bent I'd have pissed myself laughing. Absolutely delighted with the signing.
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It's fantastic to have him here. But a note of caution from me is that it looks as if he has been a royal shit the way he has left his old club at a moments notice. I could well see him doing the same to us in a year or so. I hope I am wrong.
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This is fantastic news. Welcome Darren, go out and get us some goals and let's get climbing back up the table!!!
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Why the delay to 7pm for the press conference? I really hope there is more good news and ITK's are correct that there might be another chair needed for the conference.
Doubt there'll be anyone else tonight, the ITK information suggested there would be further signing in the following WEEK.
Anyway , good luck Dazza.
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Yes! Brilliant! Havent had a 20 goals-a-season striker since Yorkie. Fantastic news.
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If you'd told me a week ago we would be signing Bent I'd have pissed myself laughing. Absolutely delighted with the signing.
I think that's an important point. The club and management deserve a lot of praise for pulling such a high-profile signing out of the bag.
Well beyond what I, and I'm sure many others, were expecting.
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Fab signing
No 1 Priority sorted
Whole Club given a massive lift
Well done Houllier / Lerner etc
Great Day
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I hope we haven't signed Marcus by mistake.
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What does ITSOTP stand for?
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I can only assume they are giving all the press time to get to Villa park for the Press Conference.
I am not worried about Bent coming to us to easily, he is at the biggest club he has ever been at now.
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Congrats to Lerrner and co for bringing him. The dark days are behind us now...as long as he lives up to expectations.
Bring on the other prospective buys.
At the very least it will make some of the wasters perk up and play for their place again..
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In The Shirt On The Pitch
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What a great atmosphere we'll have on Saturday now.
We'll make a right racket.
It's been too quiet down there lately.
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The delay until 7 is to make time to send him to Crystal Palace in an exchange with Kenny Sansom.
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Tell you what, I love the fact that this has pissed so many people off. Not the Sunderland fans, but people who are questioning why he would come here, how he's only coming for the money, why their buddy Martin O'Neill didn't get that chunk of dough to spend on one player and how Randy Learner is so desperate to spend his way out of trouble. And the icing on the cake, hearing Darren Gough on Talksport laughing at Darren Bent's quote about wanting to play for Aston Villa.
Well, a big fuck you to the lot of 'em. Villa are coming back!
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Next signing Shay Given as replacement for Friedel
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Never mind SSN, send Damon round to see if Supertom has had his vinegar strokes yet.
He'll only show him a picture of Dean Gaffney.
I have a Dean Gaffney mask for doorstep handjob interruptions.
I had no idea who Dean Gaffney was. Just googled him. Fuck me, he is ugly isn't he?
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It's fantastic to have him here. But a note of caution from me is that it looks as if he has been a royal shit the way he has left his old club at a moments notice. I could well see him doing the same to us in a year or so. I hope I am wrong.
I've read that he actually asked for a transfer at the start of the season but Bruce persuaded him to stay, so longer than a moment's notice if true
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Tell you what, I love the fact that this has pissed so many people off. Not the Sunderland fans, but people who are questioning why he would come here, how he's only coming for the money, why their buddy Martin O'Neill didn't get that chunk of dough to spend on one player and how Randy Learner is so desperate to spend his way out of trouble. And the icing on the cake, hearing Darren Gough on Talksport laughing at Darren Bent's quote about wanting to play for Aston Villa.
Well, a big fuck you to the lot of 'em. Villa are coming back!
You tell 'em son!
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Next signing Shay Given as replacement for Friedel
Westwood from Coventry.
You know it makes sense.
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Absolutely delighted, well done Villa!
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One dimensional player, doesn't really offer much other than.......................
........ GOALS!!!!!!!!
Get in there, welcome to the mighty Aston Villa Darren!!!!!!!!!
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Been away for an hour having a bath with my Mrs.
IS IT DONE???? I mean really.
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I was sat with my brother watching the game Sunday afternoon, and after seeing out woeful finishing we both said we should make a cheeky enquiry about Darren Bent, never did I think that 2 days later he would be signing for the club! A great piece of work by all involved at Villa in getting him to the club.
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Been away for an hour having a bath with my Mrs.
IS IT DONE???? I mean really.
Yes Simba.
Feel free to now use your cat skills to clean your clackers with your tongue.
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number 39 shirt apparently
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Great.
Now let's see what a transfer record-smashing striker should be all about: goals. Preferably 20+ a season. And especially goals when they matter, i.e. the ones that win matches.
Some can carry the mantel of being our record buy; some can't. For all our sakes, please be a Withe or a Deano, rather than a Cascarino or a JPA.
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Like Westwood but see it as risky changing the keeper with a keeper with no premier league experience. Plus we may not be able to match the wages are offering if he's after him
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I'm still quite shocked, I never ever could have anticipated this on Friday.
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Been away for an hour having a bath with my Mrs.
IS IT DONE???? I mean really.
Who got the tap end?
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VILLA ARE BACK
give him a chance, he is not a one man team but: intent, investment, courage and AMBITION!
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Been away for an hour having a bath with my Mrs.
IS IT DONE???? I mean really.
TMI, the bath, I mean :o. Yes, it's done. As the General once said, "he's with us"
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Just been on the website, "The Box Office is currently experiencing high demand"
Fuck me he's already on his way to getting us back 18 million
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Emmanuel Adebayor on loan in the next few days would put the iceing on the cake lol
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A few of you guys' quotes even made it onto the official site...
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html?
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For all of the speculation about the squad being really unhappy and disliking Houllier, it hasn't stopped Bent jumping at the chance to sign for us. Surely he would have had a word about things with some of the players at the club who he knows before declaring his desire to play for us. This, and the other new signings should also give the other players a bit of a boost also.
If Ireland could sort his attitude out that would be like another new signing too, and in my view he would be an excellent source of supply for Bent.
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Now let's see what a transfer record-smashing striker should be all about: goals. Preferably 20+ a season. And especially goals when they matter, i.e. the ones that win matches.
Some can carry the mantel of being our record buy; some can't. For all our sakes, please be a Withe or a Deano, rather than a Cascarino or a JPA.
As long as we give him the right service, I'm sure he'll be fine.
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I think my highlight was Risso's first response to the bid, 'fuck my old boots', I was in stitches!
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I just started watching the interview on AVTV, but had to stop, Woodward is so cringemakingly horrendous to listen to with his sub-Partridge patter.
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(http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/94/a8/0,,10265~9349268,00.jpg)
can I just put that pic up again ...
Holloway says Charlie Adam would only go to a big club...
Look at that pic Ollie, we are MASSIVE !!!!!!
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Tell you what, I love the fact that this has pissed so many people off...
.........................................Well, a big fuck you to the lot of 'em. Villa are coming back!
Great quote. Totally agree with the sentiment.
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
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He DOES look like Kriss Akabussi.
He's not a God botherer like him is he?
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
Are you sure she was not referring as to your penis being ready for love action?
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Just been on the website, "The Box Office is currently experiencing high demand"
Fuck me he's already on his way to getting us back 18 million
That's nothing to do with Bent. The ticket site's been shite since Take That announced that they are going to pollute the air in Aston.
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If DB put in his transfer at the beginning of season and was, allegedly, convinced by Bruce to stay I wonder who was interested in him back then? It would be one of life's great ironies if we were trying, once again, for him then and it cost us a lot of trauma in between times plus a reasonable manager into bargain...not trying to spoil party; just ruminating. Look forward to Saturday with huge expectations
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He DOES look like Kriss Akabussi.
He's not a God botherer like him is he?
He can be a Scientologist for all I care, as long as he sticks away 20 goals a season.
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A few of you guys' quotes even made it onto the official site...
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html?
Bastards never published my 'It's Ormondroyd and Callaghan' joke.
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This really shows what Randy and GH are about. Wonderful news. Away from home so no bath with the wife for me, so it's my right hand, haven't decided yet whether its beer or .........
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Bloody hell, SSN is boring when you watch it all day, isn't it? I've seen Jose Maria Olazabal more times than I ever wanted to, that's for sure.
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A few of you guys' quotes even made it onto the official site...
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html?
Bastards never published my 'It's Ormondroyd and Callaghan' joke.
Fuckers never used my 'Did you hear about the Thalidomide porn star? Arms like a baby's dick.'
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Hope he scores 2 goals at the weekend against Man City and Drogba and Rooney don't because then we can say we've got the most prolific goal scorer over the last 4 season
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What a waste of money. Portsmouth here we come over again.
Cannot people see we are now over extended financially?
A big error of business judgement that will destroy our club, over a hundred years old. Gone. Because of greed.
cough :(
Yeeeeeh we take a risk!!! VILLA ARE BACK!!!
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
I doubt she's that interested. Probably just misheard her farting.
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Haven't seen David Craig on SSN today ?? Is he upset
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
I doubt she's that interested. Probably just misheard her farting.
I thought she was saying `Have a pop and drop a lot on Waddle'. Chris Waddle has been retired from football for years
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A few of you guys' quotes even made it onto the official site...
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html?
Bastards never published my 'It's Ormondroyd and Callaghan' joke.
Fuckers never used my 'Did you hear about the Thalidomide porn star? Arms like a baby's dick.'
What's the smallest pub in the world?
The Thalidomide Arms.
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If DB put in his transfer at the beginning of season and was, allegedly, convinced by Bruce to stay I wonder who was interested in him back then? It would be one of life's great ironies if we were trying, once again, for him then and it cost us a lot of trauma in between times plus a reasonable manager into bargain...not trying to spoil party; just ruminating. Look forward to Saturday with huge expectations
Fenerbahce were in for him, I believe.
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Forced myself to keep quiet on this until he was signed and pictured in the shirt-now thats out of the way.....
The last 24 hours have shown us-
Are we a selling club??
Do we lack ambition??
Did Randy not trust MON to spend his childrens inheritence??
+ THE MEDIA REACTION- We are now panick buying-
If we had Bent last season we would have been in Champs league MON let him go to Sunderland.
Randy has shown his class+to top it all he still wont give an interview.
Now for Miller+Keane. 8) ;D ;D
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
I doubt she's that interested. Probably just misheard her farting.
I thought she was saying `Have a pop and drop a lot on Waddle'. Chris Waddle has been retired from football for years
Strange that. Sounded more like she cried out for 'Edward Woodward' to me.
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
I doubt she's that interested. Probably just misheard her farting.
Cheeek. The most beautiful girl on this coast and I am a lucky man. prick.
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Does this mean we are Big time? The Wife asked. In the Bath.
I doubt she's that interested. Probably just misheard her farting.
Cheeek. The most beautiful girl on this coast and I am a lucky man. prick.
Yeah but women do fart, even if they're hot. Big rip-roaring ones that lift the bed covers and everything.
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Just thought. I've bought Bent for my fantasy football team and was thinking of having him as captain for this gameweek as we are playing twice. Bent captain? Sounds like something from the Navy. ;)
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Too anyone who isn't goin the Man City game, buy a ticket and let's get the place rocking!
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Just been on the website, "The Box Office is currently experiencing high demand"
Fuck me he's already on his way to getting us back 18 million
By my maths £18m = 10,000 season tickets a year for each of his 4.5 years, so they'll have to go some... or put the season tickets up. Oh shit, I was in a good mood.
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Is the press conference going to be on SSN, do we know?
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Is the press conference going to be on SSN, do we know?
It is.
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It's amusing all these Sunderland fans saying they can't understand it, it must be for money. Look right, Sunderland are an ok club who have no real appeal. Villa are a huge club, that's why he joined.
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Is the press conference going to be on SSN, do we know?
It is.
Links??
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Collymore, shut up you fool....
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Kenny Miller turns down Small Heath in favour of a move to Bursaspor
Bent signs for the Villa
Now what does that tell us?
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PRess conference on ssn at 7 but they have a soccer special at 7 30 so I hope it's bang on 7 as I don't want to see them cut away from villa park.
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Welcomeon board DB. Well done Randy and the everyone connected. A few of us on here must feel like pieces of cheese after the Kendrick web chat on Sat when we thought there was 10 million to spend in the window,a good few of us slated Randy,shows what the fcuk we know!!
Up the Villa.
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I dunno. It is a gentle fff. An angels breath.
Pretends the bubbles aren't hers.
Arrrh love.
Where's that pic of Bent in the shirt?
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I dunno. It is a gentle fff. An angels breath.
Pretends the bubbles aren't hers.
Arrrh love.
Where's that pic of Bent in the shirt?
Posted ages ago.
(http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/94/a8/0,,10265~9349268,00.jpg)
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Ive been pissed off for years that when I look at the goalscoring charts in the paper every Monday , we never have a player nowhere near the top of the chart , found it bloody depressing...
But times have changed , Im bloody gonna see one , and maybe at the top.... ;-D
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Well bloody hell we've pulled it off!
Brilliant. I never thought I'd see anyone that good in the shirt. (in current market obviously)
Well done to Randy & the board and also Houllier
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I dunno. It is a gentle fff. An angels breath.
Pretends the bubbles aren't hers.
Arrrh love.
Oh. Busy you see. Thanks.
Where's that pic of Bent in the shirt?
Posted ages ago.
(http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/94/a8/0,,10265~9349268,00.jpg)
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It's amusing all these Sunderland fans saying they can't understand it, it must be for money. Look right, Sunderland are an ok club who have no real appeal. Villa are a huge club, that's why he joined.
Unfair on Sunderland. They're a big club, they get big crowds and their fans, at least the ones I've met, have been nice blokes and a good laugh. Remember how we felt when Jimmy left.
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Listening to Paul Franks on the radio
Him and his 'reporter' outside didn't understand where the money had come from and played "what if" saying had MON had £24m would he have stayed?
WM - THE station for lazy journalists
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Welcome to VP DaBent one. Let's hope we finally have a big money goalscorer who scores goals. Please McGrath, let him be the one!
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It's amusing all these Sunderland fans saying they can't understand it, it must be for money. Look right, Sunderland are an ok club who have no real appeal. Villa are a huge club, that's why he joined.
Unfair on Sunderland. They're a big club, they get big crowds and their fans, at least the ones I've met, have been nice blokes and a good laugh. Remember how we felt when Jimmy left.
Yes, let's be big about this.
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I dunno. It is a gentle fff. An angels breath.
Pretends the bubbles aren't hers.
Arrrh love.
You're not the one who does that 'Big Sam' twitter site, are you?
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I don't think Sunderland are a big club, they do get big crowds but that's about it. They're doing well this season, but as a club they are not in the same league as Villa.
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He's number 39. Apologies if been said.
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So have I got this right?
Villa sign Darren Bent for a fee rising to 24 million, Birmingham's main target, the 700 grand swoop for Kenny Miller, goes tits up as he chooses to go to Turkey instead and Robbie Keane says that there was no chance of him going there and it was all just a publicity stunt.
Haha. Quality! ;D
Oh and they got 22,200 for their cup final local derby. Clowns.
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It's amusing all these Sunderland fans saying they can't understand it, it must be for money. Look right, Sunderland are an ok club who have no real appeal. Villa are a huge club, that's why he joined.
Unfair on Sunderland. They're a big club, they get big crowds and their fans, at least the ones I've met, have been nice blokes and a good laugh. Remember how we felt when Jimmy left.
Well said.
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Listening to Paul Franks on the radio
Him and his 'reporter' outside didn't understand where the money had come from and played "what if" saying had MON had £24m would he have stayed?
WM - THE station for lazy journalists
Keane, Mcgready and Jenas
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I'm not having a go at their fans, I've met some nice ones. That doesn't mean they are a big club. In any case, interesting shirt number for Darren.
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Listening to Paul Franks on the radio
Him and his 'reporter' outside didn't understand where the money had come from and played "what if" saying had MON had £24m would he have stayed?
WM - THE station for lazy journalists
Keane, Mcgready and Jenas
Shudder.
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Bruce said I know he hasnt been right for ages , fook he still scored 12 goals , how many is he going to score now hes happy.. ;-)
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I'm not having a go at their fans, I've met some nice ones. That doesn't mean they are a big club. In any case, interesting shirt number for Darren.
39 means 39 goals next season ;-D
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Woe, woe - thrice woe. I might as well be consistent.
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Poor Potato Head, he must be very sad tonight.
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Woe, woe - thrice woe. I might as well be consistent.
Fair play. And if you predict disaster at the Villa you are always right eventually.
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Crap squad number, 39! Can't we just give Ireland his P45 so Bent can have 9?!?
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Crap squad number, 39! Can't we just give Ireland his P45 so Bent can have 9?!?
That's for next season. Also - record signing gets shirt number 39 makes our squad look massive!
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This is very strange for a Villa fan since 1960.
All together now -we paid a record fee for a centre forward -striker whatever-who has scored more than anyone but two in five years.
Ambition?
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Listening to Paul Franks on the radio
Him and his 'reporter' outside didn't understand where the money had come from and played "what if" saying had MON had £24m would he have stayed?
WM - THE station for lazy journalists
With you on that one, I hate Paul Franks the man is a complete ******, All he does is knock the Villa
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Poor Potato Head, he must be very sad tonight.
He must feel worse than when Hendrie shagged his daughter and then slapped him one
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Crap squad number, 39! Can't we just give Ireland his P45 so Bent can have 9?!?
Steve Bruce rates Ireland very highly , he has tried to get him before, I was a little suprised he wasnt in the deal..
Thats why I think SI and Houlier have had some kind of meeting and maybe SI has said he wants to get his head down and give it his all. Im not sure , but I would have thought Bruce would have wanted to take him...
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Nobody has yet worked out that Randy has probably made a few bob since September. If you watch the Stock Market it has been rising steadily since September so
1. The Milner money will be worth more
2. Some of the money Randy may have lost in the crash will have returned if he didn't sell his investments
Plus
3. The club shop has probably got plenty of this season's shirts left
Good business sense - no longer are we being run by a cheap holiday salesman.
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Magnificant show of intent, a genuine quality player at the right age who we won't be worrying will be leaving for a 'bigger club' in 3 or 4 years, because we will be getting him in his peak. And he's not over the hill either. Does this mean we have finally truely arrived under Lerner?
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Listening to Paul Franks on the radio
Him and his 'reporter' outside didn't understand where the money had come from and played "what if" saying had MON had £24m would he have stayed?
WM - THE station for lazy journalists
Keane, Mcgready and Jenas
Shudder.
or bought 3 more defenders ;-)
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I'm not having a go at their fans, I've met some nice ones. That doesn't mean they are a big club. In any case, interesting shirt number for Darren.
39 means 39 goals next season ;-D
He's going to play Left Back and Centre Forward!
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Forgot to post this. Did anyone else hear the SSN honey wondering aloud how bent would adapt to stepping up again in the premier league earlier?
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Forgot to post this. Did anyone else hear the SSN honey wondering aloud how bent would adapt to stepping up again in the premier league earlier?
No I was looking at her breasts
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How many goals will he get before the season is out? 10+ hopefully... Miraculous winning run and we get 6th on the last day of the season ;) Happy days.
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More pearls of wisdom from Wolves Media:
"£40m including wages on one single player. Does Bent represent value for money?"
"Randy Lerner, does he recoup the money by selling Young/Downing?"
"Will Gabby/Ash be chuffed with Bent's 80k a week"
To be fair Roger the Villa caller is giving incredibly reasoned answers, saying MON would have shelled £18m for McGeady. Presenter was left sounding like a idiot.
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Woe, woe - thrice woe. I might as well be consistent.
:) Good taste in comedies, anyway.
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live now
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he is on SSN right now.
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Any links please
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this is amazing, young and downing whiping the balls in from the wings, makoun flowing the balls to bents feet, this is brilliant. why would young want to leave villa now when we make a massive signing like this. all them balls he puts into the box which gabby, carew and ivanhoe SOMEHOW fucking dont score will now be scored by mr bent. this is brilliant. FINALLY we have a goalscorer since yorke left.
And on Oniell, i bet he is fucking gutted and i bet this has really kicked his big headed i am mr fantastic ego down to earth.
Learner didnt give you the money cause he had none or was tight, he just didnt want you to waste the money of 6 average players.
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"A key element of our football strategy"
I should coco
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Little dig about a 'manageable wage bill' there.
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Gerard speaking very well.
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Bastard computers, 6.57 I'm sat waiting for the press conference when the lap top crashes. Turn the (slow) desktop on and eventually fires up at 6.10. Cant find a link to the interview. AAArrrgggghhhhh.
Oh and welcome to Villa Darren.
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other two young forwards.. I like that
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Hopefully signing Bent will show Young that we have ambition and prove to him that his place is still here at VP. This is not the end of it.
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How many goals will he get before the season is out? 10+ hopefully... Miraculous winning run and we get 6th on the last day of the season ;) Happy days.
That's about ten more than our current so called strikers.
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Who's the fella to the right of Ged?
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Bastard computers, 6.57 I'm sat waiting for the press conference when the lap top crashes. Turn the (slow) desktop on and eventually fires up at 6.10. Cant find a link to the interview. AAArrrgggghhhhh.
Oh and welcome to Villa Darren.
fucking hell you got a time machine ? thats brilliant.. go back in time to make sure your slow computer boots up ready for the 7pm conference ;-)
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It says Darren Bent Aston Villa ;-)
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Ha I should have said 7.10. To busy beating keys on the keyboard.
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No pressure from Ged...
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John (Villa caller aka moaning barsteward) on WM:
"£18m is loads of money for a player who can't score with his head..."
"...he's fast but not strong like Heskey..."
"...I don't think he's proven..."
"I'm not overly impressed at the moment"
Unbelievable.
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Gerard very clear, Ashley Young and Stew Downing not for sale.
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downing and young..NOT FOR SALE
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what a complete twat !! thats what you call an armchair supporter who doesnt have sky sports and listens to WM. prob doesnt even know what fucking kit we play in
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5 mill euro on makoun... good price
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5 mill euro on makoun... good price
i wonder what exchange rate he got? prob went the co-op...not sure they have that much behind the counter though
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Interesting that there was no mention of Carew in the list of strikers Bent would be joining. No great surprise I suppose.
Welcome Darren, now to get off to a flyer on saturday!
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Was that Collymore who's question got cut off??
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YES! This season has been shit so far, but all of a sudden this happens! What a turn up! Who'd have thought we'd spend 24 mill on a player (potentially).
Cracking statement of intent, and a cracking signing.
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Who do we reckon is gonna come in before transfer window closes, would love to see Samba now as think we have seen the best in Dunne
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Was that Collymore who's question got cut off??
Yeah it was i was looking forward to that
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Liking Gerard's vision more and more. You know behind that smug grin he is quite rightly wearing tonight there is a couple more too. Adam and Spahic in too and we are starting to look a damned site better. Would love Ash to sign a new deal too.
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Interesting that there was no mention of Carew in the list of strikers Bent would be joining. No great surprise I suppose.
Welcome Darren, now to get off to a flyer on saturday!
Didn't he mention the two young strikers, Bent will be joining them and the two other strikers at the club?
meaning Carew and Hesk
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Interesting that there was no mention of Carew in the list of strikers Bent would be joining. No great surprise I suppose.
Welcome Darren, now to get off to a flyer on saturday!
Didn't he mention the two young strikers, Bent will be joining them and the two other strikers at the club?
meaning Carew and Hesk
Yeah i thought he was only mentioning the young strikers
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Was that Collymore who's question got cut off??
Yeah it was i was looking forward to that
I'm sure Bent was about to say, hopefully ill be more of a sucess than you Stan'.
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So Jean II Makoun only cost 5m euros?
That's a decent price
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These last few days have been so exciting and amazing, time for a pint to celebrate!! Get in!!
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Was that Collymore who's question got cut off??
Yeah it was i was looking forward to that
I'm sure Bent was about to say, hopefully ill be more of a sucess than you Stan'.
haha not difficult that though!
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Who's the fella to the right of Ged?
Brian Duggan, media director.
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
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I can't remember when I was this excited about the Villa
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More pearls of wisdom from Wolves Media:
"£40m including wages on one single player. Does Bent represent value for money?"
"Randy Lerner, does he recoup the money by selling Young/Downing?"
"Will Gabby/Ash be chuffed with Bent's 80k a week"
To be fair Roger the Villa caller is giving incredibly reasoned answers, saying MON would have shelled £18m for McGeady. Presenter was left sounding like a idiot.
Do you mean Radio WeloveMartin?
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I agree with Maca on sky the most important thing Houllier said in that press conference was that Ash and Downing are not for sale!
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
I heard he's only on £8k per week (only !!) so very gettable
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Was that Collymore who's question got cut off??
Yeah it was i was looking forward to that
would not have got cut off if it was Rednapp
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Did he mention the other 2 strikers? I heard him mention fonz and gabby , he still has problems saying agbonlahor - gerard looks like the cat that got the cream, I'm pleased for him- would sky have left the press conference had it been spurs or Chelsea ?
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The pressure really is now on Bent.. I can almost feel the heat! Hands over eyes ''don't think bad thoughts'
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
Man City spend, what, 28m on some Bosnian who has done ok in Germany = no big deal
Chelsea spend 18m on Ramires who turns out to be absolutely fucking toilet = no big deal
Liverpool spend 17m on Aquilani who tanks = no big deal
Aston Villa spend 18m on the player who has scored more PL goals than anyone bar two players over the last five years = boo hoo, wailing and general bitchiness.
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
Yeah hope its hearsay
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Did he mention the other 2 strikers? I heard him mention fonz and gabby , he still has problems saying agbonlahor - gerard looks like the cat that got the cream, I'm pleased for him- would sky have left the press conference had it been spurs or Chelsea ?
We was 20 mins late to be fair.
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Gutted they left it early.
Tsk.. could have started on time Villa!!! Just not good enough, shakes head....
Not even a 2nd player there either, had to make do with a club record centre forward with a better strike rate than 90% of the forwards in the league. Gutted.
Seriously, what a brilliant signing, brilliant day and brilliant moment for Gerard. He looked bloody elated, and fair play to him. Vision for the club, not the next game. Good stuff.
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
I heard he's only on £8k per week (only !!) so very gettable
probably what they offered Miller
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
Man City spend, what, 28m on some Bosnian who has done ok in Germany = no big deal
Chelsea spend 18m on Ramires who turns out to be absolutely fucking toilet = no big deal
Liverpool spend 17m on Aquilani who tanks = no big deal
Aston Villa spend 18m on the player who has scored more PL goals than anyone bar two players over the last five years = boo hoo, wailing and general bitchiness.
Good point.
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
Man City spend, what, 28m on some Bosnian who has done ok in Germany = no big deal
Chelsea spend 18m on Ramires who turns out to be absolutely fucking toilet = no big deal
Liverpool spend 17m on Aquilani who tanks = no big deal
Aston Villa spend 18m on the player who has scored more PL goals than anyone bar two players over the last five years = boo hoo, wailing and general bitchiness.
how much was Glen Johnson ;-s
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
I heard he's only on £8k per week (only !!) so very gettable
Is he any better than what we got, or just buy him for the sake of it and let him sit it out in the reserves for 5 years, the smelly blue nose shitebag :)
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Is there anymore hearsay on the Small Heath Alliance player Larsson ??
I heard he's only on £8k per week (only !!) so very gettable
Is he any better than what we got, or just buy him for the sake of it and let him sit it out in the reserves for 5 years, the smelly blue nose shitebag :)
Really can't see it myself.
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AMBITION
at effin last. for better or worse.
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RE: Ireland, I'm still salivating at what we could achieve if he knuckles down and gets into the side. Imagine him in front of a solid central midfield (Makoun) feeding an attacking triumvirate of Young, Bent and Albrighton with Downing and Agbonlahor waiting on the sidelines. Not only do we have more goals in us now, but we have real depth as well. A couple more signings like the last three and it becomes very very difficult to find players who we could sign and who would improve us. A very good sign imho...
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Villa have just released 1000 tickets at £15 each to mark DB's debut
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Absolutely delighted with Darren Bent signing. Thank you AVFC. It's what big clubs do.
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Gerard came across really well on TV, it was good he mentioned Nathan and Gabby, and the fact Downing and Young are not for sale should shut up the doom merchants in the media.
Let's get some points on the board and start looking to the future.
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I think GH reiterating that Downing and Young would not be sold is top news.
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We don't want Larssen.
If IF Ashley is off in the Summer, N'Zogbia would be a great replacement, but I hear so many negative reports about Larssen from folk who struggle to be critical of any of their players to a Villa fan !
Darren Bent - Number 39 in claret and blue, get fucking in !!
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Collymore's doing an interview with Bent on Talkshite in the next couple of minutes apparently
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Great news, welcome to Villa. Safety first this season, next season everyone else better watch out. Up the Villa.
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
I hope so, Gabby and Bent up front, young and albrighton on the wings, makoun and downing in the centre. Would love to see that on Saturday!
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
Man City spend, what, 28m on some Bosnian who has done ok in Germany = no big deal
Chelsea spend 18m on Ramires who turns out to be absolutely fucking toilet = no big deal
Liverpool spend 17m on Aquilani who tanks = no big deal
Aston Villa spend 18m on the player who has scored more PL goals than anyone bar two players over the last five years = boo hoo, wailing and general bitchiness.
Indeed. How DARE we?!?
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Great text from Andy in Gloucester on 5Live - something along the lines of 'you're all just bitter about Villa showing some ambition. Proven goalscorer's cost a lot of money - look at Drogba etc etc'.
And then Danny Mills proved his point immediately by saying he thought it was from 'Randy in Gloucester'.
Man City spend, what, 28m on some Bosnian who has done ok in Germany = no big deal
Chelsea spend 18m on Ramires who turns out to be absolutely fucking toilet = no big deal
Liverpool spend 17m on Aquilani who tanks = no big deal
Aston Villa spend 18m on the player who has scored more PL goals than anyone bar two players over the last five years = boo hoo, wailing and general bitchiness.
Bang on the money, Paulie. Fuck 'em all, I say.
Tonight could genuinely be the start of something exciting.
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what a complete twat !! thats what you call an armchair supporter who doesnt have sky sports and listens to WM. prob doesnt even know what fucking kit we play in
So having Sky somehow qualifies you as a bona fide fanatic nowadays?
I went to a couple of aways five years ago, I ought to be due a carriage clock.
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On talkshite now......
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Thought GH came across very well. He's starting to get his players in to play his style of football, we've seen glimpses, hopefully we can see it more consistently now and get some points on the board.
Bent will score goals, he always has done and with all due respect to Sunderland, I can't wait to see how many he'll get with Albrighton, Ash and Downing supplying....great great signing.
And among all the bitter comments, and there are gonna be a lot, none tops the interview in The Sun today with the Sunderland fanzine guy "he was our 3rd choice striker, he's not that good, maybe he can come and watch us next season in the Europa League when he could be the highest paid player in the Championship".
Welcome Darren, hero status away you....
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
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When Ivanhoe's back it'll be him and Bent up front, and that will be very interesting, potentially terrific.
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He certainly sounds happy enough and is saying all the right things.
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
Who gives a shit - he put in a fucking transfer request to join us didn't he?!
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
He's been stood around all day waiting for the press conference.
He said he found out we'd made an offer on Sunday and immediately submitted a transfer request. That to me sounds like someone very happy to make the move.
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
Listen carefully and you can hear the bottom of a barrel being scraped. Press gangs were abolished some time in the 19th century - he's not being forced to sign for us.
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Really pleaed with this signing.
I can see him being our record signing for many years to come. It'll be a long while before we spend that kind of money again I reckon.
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
Well he wasn't waving a villa scarf around his head and signing GH claret and blue army....but he looked a calm, composed, quietly spoken bloke...fuck me there are some bitter rivals out there....
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
He's been stood around all day waiting for the press conference.
He said he found out we'd made an offer on Sunday and immediately submitted a transfer request. That to me sounds like someone very happy to make the move.
I'm afraid some people will try to put a downer on this regardless of the truth.
If people (especially Villa fans) can't see this as being the most positive thing that's happened since the summer then they are either on the wind up or are insane.
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
Do you really need to ask?
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
I hope so, Gabby and Bent up front, young and albrighton on the wings, makoun and downing in the centre. Would love to see that on Saturday!
please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
i dont think it would work either,
both players have little technique or close ball control but one scores loads of goals, which is the reason we just payed 18/24 mill
he needs to be paired with someone with a good first touch and an eye for a killer pass or through ball, whilst being able to make a contribution himse lf on the scoring front
Ireland ???
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I thought GH showed a nice touch of humour at the start of the interview when he said to DB, you must be popular because there wasnt this many here when I came :)
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talkSHITE callers saying Bent didn't look happy at joining us, is that true?
He's been stood around all day waiting for the press conference.
He said he found out we'd made an offer on Sunday and immediately submitted a transfer request. That to me sounds like someone very happy to make the move.
:D Fair enough! Stupid question.
Bent interview sounding like Collymore eating shit. Glorious.
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
I'd go with a forward line of:
Downing - Bent - Heskey - Young - Gabby - Albrighton
With Ireland and Bannan playin slightly withdrawn behind them, Walker and Clarke as wingbacks and Dunne as the defence and rush goalie.
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I don't think were gonna sign Bent and follow it up with that dick from the rags! I hope not anyway. We give them our cast off's not the other way around
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Did a quote of yours make the OS?
link (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html)
Mine did. :D
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Dare I say, this is the biggest signing since MON (regardless of the end result) and something that the board obviously see as something that will brig the fans back. Good work Villa!! ;)
Edit: The fact it has pissed off so many of our rivals (namely the media) proves that we are on to something.
UTV
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Did a quote of yours make the OS?
link (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2269648,00.html)
Mine did. :D
Saw that you jammy sod
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Although I'm a fan of Bent, I take him in high esteem, I don't think that he is worth the huge amount of 20 millions.
But yes, it's a good new because that proves that Randy is still willing to invest on the team and, as Karen said, this could have an impact on other players that we are chasing.
I think that we'll sell either AY 7 or Downing, now.
No problem: with Albrighton on the right, AJ7 or Stuart on the left flank, and Bent forward we are perfectly balanced.
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Finally a Villa fan caller putting talkSPORT monkeys right over the Bent/Milner money, even got Mark Saggers saying Lerner unfairly got bad press over MON resigning.
To be fair most of us could have told them at the time, yet it takes a Big Whopper of a deal for them to realise?
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The two most important questions we should be asking ourselves after this signing are
1) Did we get more online than for Djemba-Djemba?
2) What will be the most original Bent-themed username to appear on H&V?
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Starting to get a bit sick of twattish fans of other teams saying 'it's too much' etc etc. Clearly Aston Villa aren't allowed to spend big money - only the London mob and the Mancs can do that. Fcuk 'em! We're Aston Villa.
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The two most important questions we should be asking ourselves after this signing are
1) Did we get more online than for Djemba-Djemba?
2) What will be the most original Bent-themed username to appear on H&V?
Bentbutnotbroke ??
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I can't remember when a Villa signing surprised me so much. Someone mentioned to me in the pub on Sunday evening that it could be happening with Downing going the other way, but i did'nt think too much of it at the time.
The fee is ridiculously high of course, but at the same time it's nice to see us splash out that kind of money. I think we've shocked a lot of people with this one, not just ourselves.
Oh and i'd play Heskey alongside him.
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BE:
1) The twins pre-date the internet, so no.
2) BentFromHeaven_39 would be a strong candidate, as are puns on Bent (Sent, Hell Bent, WonkyNail_39 etc)
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2) What will be the most original Bent-themed username to appear on H&V?
Nine Bob Note
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Bent it like Darren
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Bent it like Darren
I can do better than that...*snigger*
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Bent it like Darren
I can do better than that...*snigger*
Ha!
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How the **** do you just change your name like that BE?
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How the **** do you just change your name like that BE?
I have a feeling someone else did it.
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Bent it like Darren
I can do better than that...*snigger*
Ha!
Funny! I Finally got it....slow off the mark me.
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Ha Ha!
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Already doing ads for AVTV! Nothing understated about the welcome on the OS. In the interview on there, he had the look of a guy who'd had a lot of fuss made over him for a day. I sense a decent bit of the £18m investment is in the PR.
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Although I'm a fan of Bent, I take him in high esteem, I don't think that he is worth the huge amount of 20 millions.
But yes, it's a good new because that proves that Randy is still willing to invest on the team and, as Karen said, this could have an impact on other players that we are chasing.
If he knocks a few in to get us to safety this season, and makes our under-performers decide that they can be bothered it will have been worth it. It may also get the support behind the manager and team.
A very big roll of the dice by Mr. Lerner. Well done Sir.
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
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A very big roll of the dice by Mr. Lerner. Well done Sir.
A big roll of the dice would to have paid big money to a foreign player that has never played in the PL. Bent is proven in this league and probably as good a bet possible for signing an established goal scorer with an excellent track record. I would view this as a smart investment rather than a gamble, although nothing is guaranteed of course.
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
Well he's gonna want the number 9 shirt, so "Taxi for Ireland" !!!
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He's number 39
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
39 I believe Mark.
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
(http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=xhad.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640)
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Great day, great signing, great statement of intent.
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Starting to get a bit sick of twattish fans of other teams saying 'it's too much' etc etc. Clearly Aston Villa aren't allowed to spend big money - only the London mob and the Mancs can do that. Fcuk 'em! We're Aston Villa.
there,s a lot of jealousy out there folks,let em get on with it. As Des says WE,RE ASTON VILLA.--- b***x to the rest,
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Sensational signing. Well done Villa.
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
(http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=xhad.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640)
Good number, my age! What a day. It beats the previous few windows already.
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What a day. We are lucky to have a Chairman who is all action and no talk. This has blown the O'Neill inspired myth of us being a selling club apart in the most resounding way. It gives a kick up the ass to our truculent older pros and is a massive vote of confidence for Houlier. If this moves comes off it will have been a masterstroke.
You've got class Mr Chairman. Well done and thanks.
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I presume he's cup-tied for the FA Cup?
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Please excuse me if its been mentioned 100 times but what squad number has he got ??
(http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=xhad.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640)
Good number, my age! What a day. It beats the previous few windows already.
Dare you to buy it Johnno and wear it down Tudor Grange on a tuesday night!
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I presume he's cup-tied for the FA Cup?
He is
Played against Notts County
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I'd go with a forward line of:
Downing - Bent - Heskey - Young - Gabby - Albrighton
With Ireland and Bannan playin slightly withdrawn behind them, Walker and Clarke as wingbacks and Dunne as the defence and rush goalie.
So that would be a change from him playing fully withdrawn?
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I'd go with a forward line of:
Downing - Bent - Heskey - Young - Gabby - Albrighton
With Ireland and Bannan playin slightly withdrawn behind them, Walker and Clarke as wingbacks and Dunne as the defence and rush goalie.
So that would be a change from him playing fully withdrawn?
Just realise I've left out Carew, looks like Dunne is going to mis the cut in my dream team now.
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I'd go with a forward line of:
Downing - Bent - Heskey - Young - Gabby - Albrighton
With Ireland and Bannan playin slightly withdrawn behind them, Walker and Clarke as wingbacks and Dunne as the defence and rush goalie.
So that would be a change from him playing fully withdrawn?
Just realise I've left out Carew, looks like Dunne is going to mis the cut in my dream team now.
Not to mention Delfouneso.
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Fuck yeah, right back?
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Fuck yeah, right back?
Nah, Walker's attacking enough.
Clark's not going to win any headers over Heskey or Carew - Delfouneso can be left-back.
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
OK Prat I think the pair of choice shoud be Heskey and Bent with Gabby on the bench coming on to change the game if we (EVER!) need that from now on.
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No I'll keep Clarke where he is, Nathan can be an attacking rush goalie.
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
OK Prat I think the pair of choice shoud be Heskey and Bent with Gabby on the bench coming on to change the game if we (EVER!) need that from now on.
Can both of you play nicely?
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Did anyone catch Gerard trying to say agbonlahor at the press conference ??
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
OK Prat I think the pair of choice shoud be Heskey and Bent with Gabby on the bench coming on to change the game if we (EVER!) need that from now on.
Can both of you play nicely?
Apologies but pmk1981 put words into my key board!
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please call me a prat if u want. But do you really think we will see gabby up front with bent? I can see gabby being dropped. Downing left albrighton right young behind bent
OK Prat I think the pair of choice shoud be Heskey and Bent with Gabby on the bench coming on to change the game if we (EVER!) need that from now on.
Can both of you play nicely?
Apologies but pmk1981 put words into my key board!
Fair point - I missed the original lightheartedness.
As you were.
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More bitterness here:
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Inteligent observations (as usual) from the BBCs Phil McNulty: http://bbc.in/idUPwR
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Who is that guy next to Neil Warnock (and not Ray Stubbs) is it Oliver Holt?
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Ahhh... that is Phil McNulty!
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It looks like Oliver Holt.
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Who is that guy next to Neil Warnock (and not Ray Stubbs) is it Oliver Holt?
Yes, it's twat features himself.
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More bitterness here:
Who on earth is that man with long hair talking shite? I wouldn't normally say this but he's got a very punchable face.
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Warnock speaks as if Randy sacked O'Neill, though apart from that he sees it from both teams points of view.
And we've been here before - Oliver Holt is from the Paul Hayward school of journalism as far as I'm concerned (sorry Christ Smith ;)).
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More bitterness here:
After the events of the last few days, bringing in Bent and Makoun, the comments there just seem laughable.
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I did'nt have too much of a problem with what Warnock said. The other chap however wobbled on as if a player had'nt walked out on a club before. Oh and he reminded me of the bloke who Andy Millman's charecter's hated in Extra's
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Its a strange one that I read Warnock's column in the Indy and he comes across really well but I cant abide listening to him on the telly, a good ghostwriter I suppose?
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Oliver Holt is on another planet. Why can't he just let the whole O'Neill thing go? Everytime he talks about the club he has to mention his opinion that Randy was wrong in not backing him and we should have done everything to keep him. HE DID BACK HIM YOU COMPLETE MORON!!! God that guy does my head in.
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I'm not going to watch that Oliver Holt does my fucking head in everything that comes out of his stupid mouth is utter crap.
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I really hate that Oliver Holte, he such a smug twat.
What winds me up about the media the most is even after today and everything Gerrard said, the papers will still be saying we are desperate and are having to sell to fund Bent etc.
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Did Randy sack MON now did he? Tosh, bloody tosh. I just hope we climb the league now and get on with football and put all this crap and the rubbish about what's gone on with Villa and what we did to the media lovee which is MON behind us.
Randy must have one hell of a back bone, and be practically horizontal. He must here some of this nonsense and just let it fly over his head. Fair play to him for not ever coming out to the press and biting. The press must hate him, I bet they wish he would bite. I couldn't, I would have lost it with them ages ago.
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Inteligent observations (as usual) from the BBCs Phil McNulty: http://bbc.in/idUPwR
Phil McNulty strikes me as a very, very good journalist who seems to be able to avoid letting petty jealousies or squabbles into his work.
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Oliver Holte bloody loves Martin O'Neill. I think he is mentally incapable of speaking about anything remotely about Villa without mentioning how he thinks what a massive mistake it was and how we were lucky to have him etc. I'm glad I don't have Sky any more so I don't have to hear this type of uninformed guff on that Sunday morning show.
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Inteligent observations (as usual) from the BBCs Phil McNulty: http://bbc.in/idUPwR
Phil McNulty strikes me as a very, very good journalist who seems to be able to avoid letting petty jealousies or squabbles into his work.
Agreed. I also like Barclay too.
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More bitterness here:
Who on earth is that man with long hair talking shite? I wouldn't normally say this but he's got a very punchable face.
And is he carrying polyester hair?
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Warnock speaks as if Randy sacked O'Neill, though apart from that he sees it from both teams points of view.
And we've been here before - Oliver Holt is from the Paul Hayward school of journalism as far as I'm concerned (sorry Christ Smith ;)).
I'm not having that Sean, you cad. ;-)
I don't always agree with Paul Hayward but he's an excellent journalist which is why he is chief sports writer for the Observer. Oliver Holt is just an opinionated arsehole.
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If I was gay I'd be tempted to have "Randy and Bent" on the back of my shirt.
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Inteligent observations (as usual) from the BBCs Phil McNulty: http://bbc.in/idUPwR
Phil McNulty strikes me as a very, very good journalist who seems to be able to avoid letting petty jealousies or squabbles into his work.
Agreed. I also like Barclay too.
Barclay's a c**t. Never forgiven him for describing Platt as a journeyman in 1990.
Quite interested on Winter's take on it in the morning. Unless he's negative then he'll be a c**t too.
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Does anyone know what the £6m worth of add-ons relate to? Presumably, Villa appearances and England appearances?
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Does anyone know what the £6m worth of add-ons relate to? Presumably, Villa appearances and England appearances?
There's bound to be an 'avoiding relegation' clause in there and I would expect a goals scored clause in there.
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Trophies, Champions League qualification, appearances, goals, England caps.
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'He should have given this money to Martin O'Neill
He did sunbeam and we got Marlon 'couldn't hit a donkeys arse with a banjo' Harewood, Steve 'Invisible' Sidwell & Curtis 'Pub Player' Davies.
Cock hobbit.
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Trophies, Champions League qualification, appearances, goals, England caps.
and AV maintaining PL status.
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It looks like Oliver Holt.
And who is his famous actress mother? No googling / wikipedia please!
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It looks like Oliver Holt.
And who is his famous actress mother? No googling / wikipedia please!
Emily Bishop.
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The initial outlay of 18 million seems fair.
Can't remember too many comments about Spurz paying 16.5 million for him a few years back.(and hes a far better player now than he was then)
Anyhow, welcome Darren. You've joined a special club.
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It looks like Oliver Holt.
And who is his famous actress mother? No googling / wikipedia please!
Emily Bishop.
Dame Edna Everage.
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Grotbag the old green hag
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Dave Woodall on Five Live now!
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Dave Woodall on Five Live now!
Thanks for the tip.
Switched it off just in time.
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Dave Woodall on Five Live now!
Two words: radio face.
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I thought I was rather good myself.
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More bitterness here:
Im sure Oliver Holt is shagging MON
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I thought I was rather good myself.
I missed it Dave, did they ask you for your thoughts on Pienaar joining Spurs?!
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I thought I was rather good myself.
I missed it Dave, did they ask you for your thoughts on Pienaar joining Spurs?!
Has anything else happened today?
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More bitterness here:
Warnock = Sensible
Holt = Cock
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If I was gay I'd be tempted to have "Randy and Bent" on the back of my shirt.
" Young, Randy & Bent" even..............
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Superb news and its good to see it finally confirmed on here. But enough about Shefali. Welcome Darren. Hopefully you'll score at least double the total amount of shirt sales with your name on the back
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Superb news and its good to see it finally confirmed on here. But enough about Shefali. Welcome Darren. Hopefully you'll score at least double the total amount of shirt sales with your name on the back
Certaintly hope there's no poor sods walking around with 'Bent' written on them.
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Noticing some subtle username changes amongst some of the seasoned posters. Could I get away with 'bent glasses' do you think? I have sat on mine recently, so the statement would be accurate, aswell as showing support for our record signing.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1348447/Sunderland-boss-furious-Aston-Villa-clinch-Darren-Bent-deal-Tottenham-primed-6m-windfall.html
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Oliver Holt is a scrote licking cockholster. I'd love to uppercut his fat head into orbit.
And I'd have his wooden old ma watch it as well.
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He scores with his left,
he scores with his right.
Darren Bent said,
that Sunderland's shite.
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Ged trying to pronounce Agbonlahor was hilarious! He looked well pleased though!
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It looks like Oliver Holt.
And who is his famous actress mother? No googling / wikipedia please!
Oliver Kahn ? Former German goalie.
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Breaking News: Gary Glitter has announced his interest in being the next AVFC manager after he found out the strikers are Young and Bent!
In other news, I'm ecstatic with the signing, well worth 18/24 million!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1348447/Sunderland-boss-furious-Aston-Villa-clinch-Darren-Bent-deal-Tottenham-primed-6m-windfall.html
More bleeding hearts from Bruce.
Steve Bruce as you may recall is the man who has walked out of Sheffield Utd, Crystal Palace, Blues and Wigan (twice in their case).
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I thought I was rather good myself.
You were marvellous darling.
Mwah!
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Great signings!
A left back and we're almost there.
Does this mean that Pires is no longer flavour of the month? :)
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Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but I hope someone has got a few Liverpool beach balls for the last game of the season...
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I wonder whether Randy saw in the purchase of Bent the possibility to get one over on Ellis Short as well. Paulie mentioned a post, possibly originally made by IanB, here (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=41591.msg1656805#msg1656805), saying how he was supposed to be concerned about his arrival at Sunderland.
Obviously, I'm not saying that would be the only reason, but I just wonder whether somewhere in there it entered his mind that it would also be a chance to show him that his club was more important. That he could take Sunderland's leading scorer and there was nothing he could do about it. The thought makes me wonder how the American owners in the Premier League relate to one another? Whether there is a degree of competitiveness between them to which we aren't privy. After all there are four of them now.
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Take a seat and have a few deep breaths... Tom Ross talks sense
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2011/01/18/darren-bent-transfer-tom-ross-on-the-impact-for-midlands-football-97319-28011936/
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One thing that dawned on me this morning was that maybe there was a hidden dig within Houlier's comment about him being fully behind Randy's strategy of keeping the wage structure in place. Almost saying that the money has always been here if you are willing to work wiht the Chairman.
I hope MON was swearing at the TV last night!
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Steve Bruce as you may recall is the man who has walked out of Sheffield Utd, Crystal Palace, Blues and Wigan (twice in their case).
Yes, I was going to post myself and point that out: Bruce is the epitome of the manager who jumps ship at the whiff of a better offer. It's a bit rich laying into one of his players for seizing the chance of a move. Bottom line is, Bent obviously wasn't happy at Sunderland. I don't believe it was about money: if it was, interest from another club would have been the perfect opportunity for his agent to negotiate a pay rise. If he was happy to stay at the club, of course.
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if it was just about money he wouldn't have asked for a transfer. thats a substantial sum he's thrown away straight off
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I think part of it was Bent wanting to be based further down South
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Ged trying to pronounce Agbonlahor was hilarious! He looked well pleased though!
he is not good with foreign names!
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Can someone tell me if Darren Bent is eligible to play in the FA cup against Blackburn??? Cheers.
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I know he is a blose and works for talkshite but I thought Ian Danter(?)was very good about Bent signing on Brazil show yesterday morning. Totally shut up Brazil's cheap jibes with very positive and correct comments on why Villa should sign him.
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Can someone tell me if Darren Bent is eligible to play in the FA cup against Blackburn??? Cheers.
No as has been mentioned in this thread on every other page! He palyed in Sland v Notts County match. Shame.
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Can someone tell me if Darren Bent is eligible to play in the FA cup against Blackburn??? Cheers.
Afraid not, he played against Notts County.
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Yes, I was going to post myself and point that out: Bruce is the epitome of the manager who jumps ship at the whiff of a better offer. It's a bit rich laying into one of his players for seizing the chance of a move. Bottom line is, Bent obviously wasn't happy at Sunderland. I don't believe it was about money: if it was, interest from another club would have been the perfect opportunity for his agent to negotiate a pay rise. If he was happy to stay at the club, of course.
Morning lads, SAFC supporter here. No axe to grind, no bitching to be done - after all - it's a cracking bit of business for us. ;)
The bit in bold above is wrong I'm afraid - it was about the money. Asked for a rise at the start of the season and didn't get it. If you're happy to pay him the reported £80k pw fair do's, but it's a massive amount of money to spending on one player over 4 years - in excess of £40m if my sums are right. Anyway a couple of bits of info for you - DB is a very sensitive soul who reacts badly to criticism - check out his Twitter account if you like - DB11TT - took the hump because we commented on one of our message boards (readytogo.net) about all of the chances he's missed in the last few games and it appears he loves to be Top Dog - form suffered once Gyan and Welbeck started performing. Don't believe the bullshit about 'loving the place', the people being 'fantastic' and wanting to stay with you for 'a long time' either. ;)
Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season.
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Love this from a Wigan supporter on sportinglife.com
A first response to my appeal for Wigan fans as Paul Bennett gets in touch. Paul could cause some controversy as he describes Sunderland as "little.
"Steve Bruce is very good at complaining about his own problems but clearly not afraid to cause problems elsewhere. He complains about Darren Bent wanting to leave for Aston Villa, but just watch him come in for either Charles N'Zogbia or Hugo Rodallega. He'll have no problem talking openly about his interest in them – just as with Lee Cattermole.''
''Then he'll say it's just the nature of football and little Wigan have to put up with it. Well, little Sunderland must do the same with Bent. He is joining one of England's biggest clubs so good luck to him. Sunderland are getting a lot of money with which to improve the squad so they have that for comfort, whereas Bruce virtually stole Cattermole from Wigan for next to nothing considering his talent. I'm fully expecting a £6m bid for Charles or Hugo to follow, which hopefully Mr Whelan will throw back in his face."
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Can someone tell me if Darren Bent is eligible to play in the FA cup against Blackburn??? Cheers.
Afraid not, he played against Notts County.
Can someone tell me if Darren Bent is eligible to play in the FA cup against Blackburn??? Cheers.
No as has been mentioned in this thread on every other page! He palyed in Sland v Notts County match. Shame.
Cheers for that guys. Shame though. We're gonna need him in the final ;)
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I know he is a blose and works for talkshite but I thought Ian Danter(?)was very good about Bent signing on Brazil show yesterday morning. Totally shut up Brazil's cheap jibes with very positive and correct comments on why Villa should sign him.
He's a good lad and a mate of mine.
Our Villa - Blose Subbuteo games down the studio were the stuff of legend. I dont think Blose ever won one there either.
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I know he is a blose and works for talkshite but I thought Ian Danter(?)was very good about Bent signing on Brazil show yesterday morning. Totally shut up Brazil's cheap jibes with very positive and correct comments on why Villa should sign him.
To be honest, Danter is always very, very fair on us when he talks about us. I know he's a nose, but he's also one of those who "gets" Midlands football as a whole. Neil Moxley is the same.
And, controversially, I also think Trevor Francis is very fair to us when he co-commentates on Football First. Certainly compared to some former Villa players - like Platt - who never seemed to have a good word to say about us.
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I know various people who used to coach at Wigan when Bruce was manager there, and most of them think he was a cock.
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Danter is one of the few on Talksport that actually likes to give a reasoned and balanced opinion as opposed to spouting of whatever controversial crap will get people to ring in and spend 50p a minute while on hold to put them right.
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Bruce has just given a press conference...
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8983/hellobruce.jpg)
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Well the Sunderland fans have took it well ???
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=560319 (http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=560319)
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I know he is a blose and works for talkshite but I thought Ian Danter(?)was very good about Bent signing on Brazil show yesterday morning. Totally shut up Brazil's cheap jibes with very positive and correct comments on why Villa should sign him.
To be honest, Danter is always very, very fair on us when he talks about us. I know he's a nose, but he's also one of those who "gets" Midlands football as a whole. Neil Moxley is the same.
And, controversially, I also think Trevor Francis is very fair to us when he co-commentates on Football First. Certainly compared to some former Villa players - like Platt - who never seemed to have a good word to say about us.
Danter is based in the Midlands and so knows what is going on, the nationals get the likes of Oliver Holt spouting shite cos they only come and watch us when we play Chelsea.
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Well the Sunderland fans have took it well ???
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=560319 (http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=560319)
I don't have a problem with Sunderland, they're a decent, big club with lots of history, but Christ almighty, that forum is an absolute embarassment.
They appear to have just deleted a load of threads, but when that mackem posted, I took a look at the forum, and there were about 20 new threads started within the previous ten minutes, each one consisting of a handful of posts all saying exactly the same thing.
Seems now that he wasn't that good after all, and they're better off without him. I wonder how many of them would have said that last week?
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I know various people who used to coach at Wigan when Bruce was manager there, and most of them think he was a cock.
He was very popular amongst the staff at SHA.
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I know he is a blose and works for talkshite but I thought Ian Danter(?)was very good about Bent signing on Brazil show yesterday morning. Totally shut up Brazil's cheap jibes with very positive and correct comments on why Villa should sign him.
To be honest, Danter is always very, very fair on us when he talks about us. I know he's a nose, but he's also one of those who "gets" Midlands football as a whole. Neil Moxley is the same.
And, controversially, I also think Trevor Francis is very fair to us when he co-commentates on Football First. Certainly compared to some former Villa players - like Platt - who never seemed to have a good word to say about us.
Danter is based in the Midlands and so knows what is going on, the nationals get the likes of Oliver Holt spouting shite cos they only come and watch us when we play Chelsea.
And Brazil hates Villa since 1981.
That's many years of hate there.
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Bruce has just given a press conference...
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8983/hellobruce.jpg)
''National Media? I think you should come next door, there's something you need to see''
(soft tinkly piano music)
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I quite like Alan Brazil, he did give me his autograph in the mid 80s though, it does make me laugh whenever he mentions their 3 wins against us in 80/81, but is always respectful when the likes of Mortimer or Morley are on.
He does come up with a lot of good stories and he is so blazen when it comes to his freebies.
He used to talk a lot more about horse racing which I am particularly interested in, he doesn't do it as much now which is a shame as he had a great insight into it.
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I know various people who used to coach at Wigan when Bruce was manager there, and most of them think he was a cock.
He was very popular amongst the staff at SHA.
By definition they're all cocks too.
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I quite like Alan Brazil, he did give me his autograph in the mid 80s though, it does make me laugh whenever he mentions their 3 wins against us in 80/81, but is always respectful when the likes of Mortimer or Morley are on.
He does come up with a lot of good stories and he is so blazen when it comes to his freebies.
He used to talk a lot more about horse racing which I am particularly interested in, he doesn't do it as much now which is a shame as he had a great insight into it.
I think it pisses him off intensely that he just missed the multi-millionaire footballer era.
I like him in small doses, but horse racing isn't my bag !
Bent however, is going to be the King of The Holte End now.
Ian Taylor happier than SVC.
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/01/18/darren-bent-transfer-football-world-reacts-on-twitter-97319-28006893/
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Nice to see randy and houllier having a warm embrace at training today, Faulkner was watching as well-'when bent scored a header randy turned round and shouted'now that's why we bought darren bent'.
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On pots, kettles and pantomime dames:
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/6390/38/
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The bit in bold above is wrong I'm afraid - it was about the money. Asked for a rise at the start of the season and didn't get it. If you're happy to pay him the reported £80k pw fair do's, but it's a massive amount of money to spending on one player over 4 years - in excess of £40m if my sums are right. Anyway a couple of bits of info for you - DB is a very sensitive soul who reacts badly to criticism - check out his Twitter account if you like - DB11TT - took the hump because we commented on one of our message boards (readytogo.net) about all of the chances he's missed in the last few games and it appears he loves to be Top Dog - form suffered once Gyan and Welbeck started performing. Don't believe the bullshit about 'loving the place', the people being 'fantastic' and wanting to stay with you for 'a long time' either. ;)
Thanks for the insider view... but again, if he was happy at Sunderland, interest from another club is perfect ammunition to seek a wage increase (see good old John Terry for example). I'm sure it played a part, not convinced it was the only reason. I've read £70k a week, and we're not breaking our wage structure for him - and our need to reduce the wage bill is well documented so I don't believe we're paying him silly money.
BTW... was it true that Bent had handed in a transfer request once before at Sunderland?
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Weah o weah
Weah o weah
Darren
BET BENT BENT
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To be honest, The Mackems are hurting and its understandable, so I'm personally paying little or no attention to the sour grapes and coming onto our boards attempting to piss on our chips as if we dont know what or who we're getting.
All we want from him is to score goals, not marry him. He will be idolised and worshipped at Villa if he does his job but one day it will end and we'll look to someone else or he'll move on *shrugs*. Same as it ever was.
We've had experience with this in recent years already. You learn from it. Players come and go.
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Morning lads, SAFC supporter here. No axe to grind, no bitching to be done - after all - it's a cracking bit of business for us. ;)
The bit in bold above is wrong I'm afraid - it was about the money. Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season.
Ned thanks for the post. Always liked Sunderland fans. My best mate is from Sunderland but lives here now so whenever you are playing away in the Midlands I go with him and stand sorry sit with your away fans. Great fun.
On DB yes he is like any modern footballer. Barry and Milner did it to us and he has done it to you. I am afraid there is no loyalty or sympathy in the game now. Once he was available we had to get him and if that upsets anyone well that's how it is.
I do agree with you that this is good business for Sunderland.
Good luck for the rest of the season and keep that 6th place warm for us!
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I find it strange people saying it's a step down, Sunderland are a yoyo club- and just because they are doing well now doesn't mean they are bigger than us- our history and our premier league record is in the top 5 clubs in the country- when did Sunderland last play in Europe even?
Last year Sunderland hit a wall around this time and went something like 11 without a win- may well happen again and even though well ahead on points it's still perfectly possible to finish above them this season- as bent said villa are a massive club!
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Last year Sunderland hit a wall around this time and went something like 11 without a win - may well happen again and even though well ahead on points it's still perfectly possible to finish above them this season- as bent said villa are a massive club!
Especially without their best striker.
Too soon?
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We are a quality club having a bad season
Mackems are a decent club having a quality season.
class will out.
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Don't know if it's been mentioned already but maybe the relaxing of the purse strings if that is truly what has happened here, is to do with their being less pressure to get the ground bought up to standard given the World Cup bid failing....just a thought.
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Yes, I was going to post myself and point that out: Bruce is the epitome of the manager who jumps ship at the whiff of a better offer. It's a bit rich laying into one of his players for seizing the chance of a move. Bottom line is, Bent obviously wasn't happy at Sunderland. I don't believe it was about money: if it was, interest from another club would have been the perfect opportunity for his agent to negotiate a pay rise. If he was happy to stay at the club, of course.
Morning lads, SAFC supporter here. No axe to grind, no bitching to be done - after all - it's a cracking bit of business for us. ;)
The bit in bold above is wrong I'm afraid - it was about the money. Asked for a rise at the start of the season and didn't get it. If you're happy to pay him the reported £80k pw fair do's, but it's a massive amount of money to spending on one player over 4 years - in excess of £40m if my sums are right. Anyway a couple of bits of info for you - DB is a very sensitive soul who reacts badly to criticism - check out his Twitter account if you like - DB11TT - took the hump because we commented on one of our message boards (readytogo.net) about all of the chances he's missed in the last few games and it appears he loves to be Top Dog - form suffered once Gyan and Welbeck started performing. Don't believe the bullshit about 'loving the place', the people being 'fantastic' and wanting to stay with you for 'a long time' either. ;)
Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season.
Can understand that the Mackems are disappointed but I reckon if you give most players a straight choice of ourselves or Sunderland they'll opt for us.
Which is why I'm surprised we've taken as much stick on this one as we have. As an example, Tottenham were down at the arse end of the table a few years ago but players like Bentley, Pavlichenko and co would have still opted for them over the likes of Blackburn, Sunderland or any other side enjoying one half decent season.
I know football is incredibly short-termist in outlook now, but we haven't become smallyfry in just under four months. And Sunderland haven't become major players.
Saying it's all about the money sounds like jealousy to me. But hey, big clubs pay the money in fees and wages too, that's part of it. Live and learn.
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I read we're paying more like 65k but I doubt anyone really knows. Out if interest what were Sunderland paying him? After his spurs move, I'd guess it was in the region of 40k.
With out doubt money was a factor in the move but getting stale, feeling threatened by the form if gyan, the fact that villa players seem to get more England recognition and being closer to London may also be factors. Not to mention the alledged racial abuse and the trashing of his car.
Regardless, I think Bruce is a pretty shrewd player in the transfer market so with your 18/24 million warchest you could actually be better off.
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Plus, how do Sunderland fans know for certain that when our interest was first confirmed the Mackems didn't try and match the package we were offering?
Would seem strange if (a) they valued him so highly, (b) he was an integral part of their future plans and (b) Sunderland are a bigger club than us (which was a surprise to me, I must admit) that they wouldn't match what we offered.
Maybe they did and maybe he still wanted out?
What then?
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This is quite entertaining - when an ITK first broke the news, it took about 11 pages of "wind-up merchant" & "ignore this troll", before it become "oh"
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=558999 (http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=558999)
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Martin Samuel in The Sun
Darren Bent at £24m is mad, but more fun than common sense
Last updated at 2:21 PM on 19th January 2011
There is one problem with common sense in football. It doesn't get you any points. Never has, never will. Nobody has ever taken common sense on an open bus tour around town or paraded it before the fans on the final day of the season.
Common sense with a touch of madness, yes. Common sense with breaking the British transfer record three times in succession, as Manchester United did, or gambling like Arsenal on expensive Serie A cast-offs such as Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry, most certainly. Yet common sense solo is never enough. Supporters do not feverishly fantasise about a new owner with bags of logic. Bags of money are what they want. Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham Hotspur manager got it right. If Saddam Hussein had spent half his ill-gotten fortune on buying a decent striker for a club in fear of relegation, he could have put up that giant self-aggrandising statue outside the ground and nobody would have torn it down.
'Most people die of a creeping common sense,' wrote Oscar Wilde, and Aston Villa's season certainly has. Villa tried common sense in the summer months, and now what? It is ironic that while some were wittering on about the noble desire to rebuild the club through youth, Randy Lerner, the owner, was preparing to pay £24million for Darren Bent in the fevered hope he will score the goals to lift his club away from the bottom three. 'Age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut,' claimed PJ O'Rourke, and overspending on proven Premier League goalscorer Bent certainly beats prudence and relegation in football's modern era.
In every season there is always one transfer that stuns with its extravagance and this is it. Indeed, some might argue this is Bent's second time around, having also moved from Charlton Athletic to Tottenham for £16.5m in 2007. That deal was viewed as over-priced in retrospect, however, once Bent had failed to impress in north London. Initially, his 31 goals in 68 league games for Charlton meant Bent's fee was considered the going rate. For it to have increased by roughly 50 per cent after a decent 18 months at Sunderland is what startles, but this is what happens when common sense reveals its limitations. Off the field, successful football is a balancing act. It is a trade-off between good business practice and the degree of risk that is required to succeed. On the field it is not so different. A team has to be solidly set up to keep the ball, while being prepared to gamble on the killer pass that creates a goal, but might also give possession away. No team ever scored without the ball, is the maxim, but equally no team has ever won a match without putting it in an area that risks a counter-attack.
This summer, Aston Villa decided that they did not want to risk anymore. Lerner, a decent guy whose stewardship was envied by supporters of clubs whose American owners had morphed into damn Yankees, thought he had spent enough to get the club to sixth place and the investment required to advance on the Champions League could no longer be justified. He could spend another £50m without guarantee of success. Recouping some of his outlay by selling Gareth Barry and James Milner to Manchester City, Lerner ushered in a new era of fiscal responsibility, which lasted roughly six months. Lerner got the balance wrong, you see. He thought Villa could stand still and remain competitive on a diet of youthful promise and sound economics. Martin O'Neill considered these aims impractical and left. Gerard Houllier happily accepted the challenge, but his team has struggled.
Nobody stands still in the Premier League and when players know a club is at the limit of its ambitions, they go backwards, too. Villa have been outstripped by Bolton Wanderers, Stoke City, even Sunderland, now forced to give up one of their prized assets. It will cost Villa £24m to get back a semblance of what they had in the first place. Is Bent worth £24m? No. Yet in a climate in which relegation costs £30m and instant promotion would be far from guaranteed, his signing makes business sense to Lerner. He has to gamble because logic - stay as you are and Villa will slowly pull away from the bottom three because they have a superior squad - is getting him nowhere. Yet buying Bent is a huge risk. The last time he went to a high profile club for big money, he seemed cowed by the experience and there is a theory that he is best as a big fish in smaller pools, as happened at Ipswich Town, Charlton and Sunderland.
Put under the spotlight, as he will be now, he wilts. There is certainly belief within the England international set-up that Bent's unfortunate run of injuries when called up to the squad may be an adverse reaction to pressure.
Is he the man for the big occasion? Is he right for Aston Villa? This very much depends on how one regards the strain of Villa's fight against relegation. If Bent gets a good start, he undoubtedly has the talent to shoot his new club out of trouble; if he stalls, however, the intensity will mount, the numbers will be a burden, and Houllier cannot afford his man to be crushed by expectation. As for Lerner, this will have been an education. A successful football club must embrace common sense, but madness, too. The trick is to not to allow too much of either.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1348409/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Darren-Bent-24m-mad-fun-common-sense.html#ixzz1BUsOQNPm
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A scout we sent,
came back with Darren Bent,
Villa Villa ......
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Has Martin Samuel even got an idea of what day of the week it is?
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read the entire sunderland thread its page 11 before anyone goes oh shit. before then its al op bashing lol.
interesting to see this tho.
The Situation
I've just got onto a computer after being told the bad news.Firstly, thanks Skunk Hater for the information, you were spot on again as usual.Secondly, my own thoughts. It's a shame Bent wants to leave and I can only think things aren't right for him behind the scenes. Bent handed in the request yesterday according to SAFC, so either he's done a Cana and sorted the deal out with his agent behind our backs or Villa have had a deal on the table for a while, we've rejected it and Bent's handed in the transfer request then. Either way it seems strange that he'd leave us for Villa given our respective league positions and future prospects so I'd suspect things haven't been right for him behind the scenes and he wants to get away, hopefully we'll find out in time and both SAFC and Bent will be honest to us as it's the least we deserve.Many very good players have left this football club over the years and if anyone wants out then I wouldn't stand in their way. We're SAFC and we'll still be here long after Bent has finished..
not the same situation off here is it by any chance?
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Why would they think their future prospects are better than ours?
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cus they are abit simple?
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I think they are very similar to us, a big club with a seemingly good owner who backs the manager without interference, we are both always going to struggle to attract the very best players and keep hold of the ones we do have. They are just going to have to take it on the chin because it wont be the last time either club loses a player they want to keep.
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It's the North East air. It goes to their heads and must be mostly oxygen.
Delusions of grandeur or impending doom and not much in between.
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lol could be worse. they could be smoggies
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The last time he went to a high profile club for big money, he seemed cowed by the experience and there is a theory that he is best as a big fish in smaller pools, as happened at Ipswich Town, Charlton and Sunderland.
Put under the spotlight, as he will be now, he wilts. There is certainly belief within the England international set-up that Bent's unfortunate run of injuries when called up to the squad may be an adverse reaction to pressure.
Amidst all that there is at least the acknowledgement from Samuel that we are a step up, we're a high profile club compared Sunderland, Charlton and co.
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Oooh, so close Martin Samuel, but still traces of bulls***.
Youthful promise and sound economics is Arsenal's motto. Any criticism from him then? Didn't think so...
Then he states RL spending £24m on Bent is a huge risk, after closing the checkbook which was a risk to open up in the first place.
I don't know about you lot but spending the Milner money on the Premier League's 3rd best striker seems to have a lot of common sense.
The fat Honey Monster cocksocket*.
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the media really hate seeing us do something positive...
its funny to watch them all being proven to be clueless agenda fuelled gobshites now our actions go against their rubbish over the past 6 months...
the squirming now is to save face...
bring it on you bunch of pre cum wank dribbles...
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I think Samuel has it pretty much spot on where Villa are at the moment and I don't read anything critical in it. I'm sure he wishes his beloved West Ham had similar owners and resources. Circumstances mean Randy, as a businessman, needed to deliver and he has. We can be paranoid about the media or complain it ignores the club but we can be pretty sure it won't be on Saturday. I'm actually relieved it's Man City because the pressure will be on Bent.
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I'm getting pretty pissed off with the constant 'is he worth it ?' bollocks to be honest..........
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I'm getting pretty pissed off with the constant 'is he worth it ?' bollocks to be honest..........
if he scores goals Yes,
if he doesnt No,
it would be the same if we only paid 10mill for him
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.............and SVC's insistence that we will sell now to fund the deal.
These are all 'small club' comments.
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Randy's made a few people look stupid. They don't like it.
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Randy's made a few people look stupid. They don't like it.
amen to that..
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I wish these journalists would stop quoting £24m..... the fee was £18m. The rest are add-ons, and for the amount to reach £6m, making the final eventual fee £24m, Bent will probably have had to have scored 100-plus league goals for us, shot us into Champions League football, made 200 PL appearances and reached 50 caps for England. In which case, we'd have the best striker in the country.
And Martin Samuel... I liked him when he wrote for the Times, gone off him now he's at the Mail. I wonder why he switched papers. It can't have been about the quality of the product.
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Holt's article in the Mirror was brilliant today. The vitriol in it was incredible.
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Holt's article in the Mirror was brilliant today. The vitriol in it was incredible.
i agree,
i would normaly stick up for Holt a bit, as i've taken the mirror for ever, but he was incredibly bias this morning, and what he said was rubbish
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Sorry Villa fans, but I am a tweet… an absolute tweet
By "Ringpiece" Oliver Holt
Has Oliver Holt tweeted yet?
It is my favourite form of communication, after all, the one I used when I was itching to get away from The Times all of 8 years ago? I pretty much pioneered the apopletic journalist. The rate I'm going, it's probably all we'll remember me for. You recall it, don't you. "Sports Columnist of the Year..again!"
And more self-serving garbage like that, ending with Aston Villa fans ordering the Mirror journalist to 'stop writing s**t'.
So I'm waiting for the next missive from the Heroes and Villains website. The latest in a series they call "The Darrent Bent Signs For Villa" thread. Perhaps that's my's next shot at history. The compilation of a tome of my Pulitzer-prize winning masterpieces. A footballing first. A world first. Beating Martin Samuel to the punch. My sad existence chronicled in pithiness.
It could be called @OH_fistf***sM*N or whatever my twitter identity is these days.
Actually, I know what it is. It used to be @OH_is_always_right. But now it's @OH_bitterbastard. 'OH' stands for 'on heat' as well. Although I'm sure Villa fans are thinking of a different word for the second H. (insert your own joke here)
Presumably, now that I'm forsaking sanity, my Twitter username will have to change again. Anything to do with the truth might make for rather uncomfortable reading so here are a couple of suggestions.
How about:
@OH_ihatevilla.
Or @OH_igotitcompletelywrong.
Or @OH_iwriteshitedaily.
Or @OH_mirrortiligetabiggerwagefrommurdoch.
Any of them would fit nicely but there's still one initial problem to circumvent: can you get the story of one man's love of an out-of-work football manager into a 140-character cough? I don't know, but I'm sure I will have a good go.
In fact, I'm sure I'm working on it right now. It's just taking a while to get the letters in the right order. Here's another suggestion: 'Sorry' would be a good start.
*Sorry to all the Villa fans I've upset with my bile.
*Sorry for the impression I gave that I resembled a competent, level-headed journalist.
*Sorry for leading Villa supporters to believe that I knew what I was talking about and I valued their well-informed opinions.
*Sorry for allowing them to think they had found a decent person worthy of my respect, a guy who was masquerading as an intelligent person for a long time.
*Sorry for letting everyone think the Mirror newspaper was more than a sounding board to write bitter bile about a leading English footballer when, actually, as soon as a national press award came along, My ego was off quicker than you can put fist to keyboard.
Until yesterday, I had a lot of respect for myself. I admired the dignity with which I wrote another anti-Villa article despite the comments section pointing out the various glaring holes in my arguments and showing me up to be a complete tool. I liked the way I had settled at the Mirror. I admired the way I was writing. I was happy I was on to a good thing at Trinity Mirror's head office.
But I don't feel like that now.
I'm just another London-based idiot. Another journalist with no work ethic. No loyalty. No common sense.
Sorry @OH_imalwaysright, but you're a tweet… an absolute tweet.
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I wonder why he switched papers. It can't have been about the quality of the product.
There were around 400,000 reasons per year that he switched papers.
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Really, are they on that kind of money, I'm surprised.
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Really, are they on that kind of money, I'm surprised.
It would seem so (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/17/dailymail.thetimes)
Samuel's start date at the Mail is under negotiation; industry sources have told MediaGuardian.co.uk that he will be paid a salary in excess of £400,000.
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Sheesh 400k to write fabricated garbage......theres hope for us all yet and they say footballers get paid too much.
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August 2010 journalists = Villa have no money
Jan 2011 Villa sign Bent for lots of money
journalists = Villa are desperate
fooking idiots
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I wish these journalists would stop quoting £24m..... the fee was £18m. The rest are add-ons, and for the amount to reach £6m, making the final eventual fee £24m, Bent will probably have had to have scored 100-plus league goals for us, shot us into Champions League football, made 200 PL appearances and reached 50 caps for England. In which case, we'd have the best striker in the country.
And Martin Samuel... I liked him when he wrote for the Times, gone off him now he's at the Mail. I wonder why he switched papers. It can't have been about the quality of the product.
and they keep saying £10 million form spurzz.. It wasnt £10 million... any thing to make us look ripped off... but it was ok for spurzz to sign him for 16.5 mill..
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I'd rather be desperate and have Darren Bent banging in the goals than have no goalscorer and no goals.
That's the key point they are missing here.
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Just saw the pictures of his first training session on the official site. One picture got me worried though,it was of Heskey closley marking him,with Ivanhoe's track record i wouldn't let him anywhere near Bent!!
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Martin Samuel isn't paid that sort of money just to report dull, staid facts. He's there to give his views and to do it in an entertaining way and, to my mind, he does a pretty good job even if I don't always agree with it.
Many on this site seem to have a real problem with a free press and want it stifled so that they only report what we want to read.
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read the entire sunderland thread its page 11 before anyone goes oh shit. before then its al op bashing lol.
interesting to see this tho.
The Situation
I've just got onto a computer after being told the bad news.Firstly, thanks Skunk Hater for the information, you were spot on again as usual.Secondly, my own thoughts. It's a shame Bent wants to leave and I can only think things aren't right for him behind the scenes. Bent handed in the request yesterday according to SAFC, so either he's done a Cana and sorted the deal out with his agent behind our backs or Villa have had a deal on the table for a while, we've rejected it and Bent's handed in the transfer request then. Either way it seems strange that he'd leave us for Villa given our respective league positions and future prospects so I'd suspect things haven't been right for him behind the scenes and he wants to get away, hopefully we'll find out in time and both SAFC and Bent will be honest to us as it's the least we deserve.Many very good players have left this football club over the years and if anyone wants out then I wouldn't stand in their way. We're SAFC and we'll still be here long after Bent has finished..
not the same situation off here is it by any chance?
I swear to God I don't have an account on that awful forum. I claimed the username The Situation first...
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read the entire sunderland thread its page 11 before anyone goes oh shit. before then its al op bashing lol.
interesting to see this tho.
The Situation
I've just got onto a computer after being told the bad news.Firstly, thanks Skunk Hater for the information, you were spot on again as usual.Secondly, my own thoughts. It's a shame Bent wants to leave and I can only think things aren't right for him behind the scenes. Bent handed in the request yesterday according to SAFC, so either he's done a Cana and sorted the deal out with his agent behind our backs or Villa have had a deal on the table for a while, we've rejected it and Bent's handed in the transfer request then. Either way it seems strange that he'd leave us for Villa given our respective league positions and future prospects so I'd suspect things haven't been right for him behind the scenes and he wants to get away, hopefully we'll find out in time and both SAFC and Bent will be honest to us as it's the least we deserve.Many very good players have left this football club over the years and if anyone wants out then I wouldn't stand in their way. We're SAFC and we'll still be here long after Bent has finished..
not the same situation off here is it by any chance?
I swear to God I don't have an account on that awful forum. I claimed the username The Situation first...
lol i thought you were on there on a wind-up
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I think they are very similar to us, a big club with a seemingly good owner who backs the manager without interference, we are both always going to struggle to attract the very best players and keep hold of the ones we do have. They are just going to have to take it on the chin because it wont be the last time either club loses a player they want to keep.
Plus unfortunately for them, Sunderland is an absolute shit hole that nobody in their right mind would want to live in unless they were born there.
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Spot on. If you're born there, it's paradise
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I was up near there the other day, it beautiful ten minutes drive away.
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Surprising how far you can get in ten minutes, when you put your foot down
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I think they are very similar to us, a big club with a seemingly good owner who backs the manager without interference, we are both always going to struggle to attract the very best players and keep hold of the ones we do have. They are just going to have to take it on the chin because it wont be the last time either club loses a player they want to keep.
Plus unfortunately for them, Sunderland is an absolute shit hole that nobody in their right mind would want to live in unless they were born there.
Pretty much this.
I don't think I've ever seen so many chavs in my life when I went to Sunderland away last season. It would seem like a really grim place to live if you were earning 40k a week.
Birmingham's not exactly the most desierable city in the world but it has a good city centre, lots of designer stores, has a Selfridges and lots of good restaurants and clubs. The areas outside of Birmingham seem pretty nice to live in near Bodymoor Heath training ground - so when Darren's finished with training he can go down The Belfry and play a peaceful 9 holes at a Championship Course.
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Nah, he'll be straight into Mr Egg or whatever the latest incarnation is.
Food poisoning whilst you wait.
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Or perhaps visit Thomas Land at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo.
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Hmmm, I struggling to see Darren living in a two-up, two down next door to Roker Park.
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Is that Danny Murphy? I hope we got permission for that.
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I lived in the north east for a while.
Sunderland is a shit hole. Well, it was the last time I went, in 1989, and I bet it hasn't changed since.
Newcastle is decent, though, although it's not the shopping mecca Brum is. The issue with the north east clubs it that it is, frankly, quite a long way from the rest of the country (yes, I know that doesn't make sense, but you know what I mean).
It is also very much a goldfish bowl - ie people point at expensive cars and are amazed by things like helicopters (probably the reason Michael Owen didn't do well there)
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I think they are very similar to us, a big club with a seemingly good owner who backs the manager without interference, we are both always going to struggle to attract the very best players and keep hold of the ones we do have. They are just going to have to take it on the chin because it wont be the last time either club loses a player they want to keep.
Plus unfortunately for them, Sunderland is an absolute shit hole that nobody in their right mind would want to live in unless they were born there.
Pretty much this.
I don't think I've ever seen so many chavs in my life when I went to Sunderland away last season. It would seem like a really grim place to live if you were earning 40k a week.
Birmingham's not exactly the most desierable city in the world but it has a good city centre, lots of designer stores, has a Selfridges and lots of good restaurants and clubs. The areas outside of Birmingham seem pretty nice to live in near Bodymoor Heath training ground - so when Darren's finished with training he can go down The Belfry and play a peaceful 9 holes at a Championship Course.
There are lots of lovely places to live around the city, the shopping in the city only lags behind one place - London - and the city centre itself is vibrant and full of places for hideously overpaid mid 20s blokes to spunk their money away.
It even managed to keep John Carew entertained for four years before he got bored, which takes some doing.
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I was up in the North East at 12ish today. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and it wasn't really cold. It's still a shit hole.
Some parts are very nice mind but not the ones I was in today.
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I wonder why he switched papers. It can't have been about the quality of the product.
There were around 400,000 reasons per year that he switched papers.
I know. I'm sure you picked up on the not-so subtle point I was trying to make. Hypocrisy is rife among not just managers here, but journalists. It's alright for Steve Bruce to improve his career, and journalists to improve theirs... but Darren Bent? How dare he!
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Martin Samuel isn't paid that sort of money just to report dull, staid facts. He's there to give his views and to do it in an entertaining way and, to my mind, he does a pretty good job even if I don't always agree with it.
I agree with Chris. He's one of the few that are worth reading - even if he is writing for 'them' - especially when he sticks it to the FA. I don't always agree with him either, but he's normally pretty good. His article a few months back on junior football and pitch sizes and the way the FA are more interested in talking platitudes and producing coffee table publications than actually doing anything, was superb.
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23915521-as-aston-villa-sink-their-pond-is-just-the-right-size-for-darren-bent.do
Probably best not to read this if you want to avoid an embolism.
As Aston Villa sink, their pond is just the right size for Darren Bent
Sunderland may be reeling from Darren Bent's somewhat baffling decision to jump ship for Aston Villa but they can console themselves with the knowledge that the club have outgrown him.
Bent's desire to exchange the high seas of the Stadium of Light for the troubled waters of Villa Park suggests that he simply relishes life as the big fish in a small pond.
Such has been Sunderland's improvement that perhaps their rivers now run too deep. Bent moved to the north-east in August 2009 for a club record £10.5million and has scored a remarkable 32 goals in 58 Premier League appearances to date as the Black Cats progress under Steve Bruce.
Bent was integral to that development and in the first part of the present campaign, he continued to carry the side's only consistent goalscoring threat.
He stood out as the talisman of a side so reliant on his prowess to keep them afloat. No longer.
Asamoah Gyan has made a hugely promising start to his Sunderland career - after usurping Bent as the club's most expensive asset - and the former Rennes striker appears well-equipped to thrive in English football.
Sunderland's 3-0 victory at Chelsea earlier in the season was sensational in itself - the thought of achieving such a result without Bent would have been incomprehensible before Gyan arrived.
Of course, Bruce envisaged Bent and Gyan tearing into opponents in tandem but their partnership failed to ignite, their movement did not complement each other and they played like strangers. Bruce would have hoped that understanding would have been developed over time but Bent removed that possibility when signing for Villa last night in a £24million deal after handing in a written transfer request following Sunday's 1-1 draw against Newcastle United.
Bent thrives best when a team are built around him but Sunderland have grown to the extent they no longer need to rely on one weapon to attack - Gyan and the hugely promising Danny Welbeck, on loan from Manchester United, have added fresh dimensions to their play. Consequently, Bent has had to adapt as the team developed but he appeared unwilling or incapable of that adjustment.
His career suggests the latter. Of his two seasons at Tottenham, the first was a huge disappointment and even though he finished the second as the club's top scorer with 17 goals in all competitions, Harry Redknapp remained unconvinced of his ability to settle into life as part of a pool of four rotated strikers that exist at nearly all the top sides.
It is a harsh judgement of a player who has scored goals throughout his career but it is hugely questionable whether he can cut it at the highest level; perhaps the world's leading clubs agree given his sudden availability has not provoked a transfer scramble to rival Villa's huge offer.
(Incidentally, a penny for Martin O'Neill's thoughts after leaving Villa over the summer due to a refusal to invest in the playing squad as owner Randy Lerner preached frugality over free spending).
Similarly, his case to play for England remains unconvincing as although he could do little more in terms of scoring goals, it is debatable whether he has the versatility required to succeed at international level.
Bent needs a side to be built around him - it was in such circumstances that he made his name at Charlton and Gerard Houllier should do the same at Villa in a 4-5-1 system with his new man in the limelight at the apex.
In all likelihood, Bent will therefore thrive but that does not qualify the wisdom of the move from the player's perspective.
A full explanation will no doubt emerge over the coming weeks - Bent reportedly asked to leave in the summer only to be talked round by Bruce and the club's hierarchy - but it is hard to believe his England credentials will be enhanced by trading a fight for Europe for a relegation dogfight.
Villa are undeniably a bigger club in terms of their history but their present malaise cannot surely hold greater appeal to a player at a club enjoying such heights as Sunderland are at present.
Cynics would argue the move is about money - Bent is thought to have doubled his wages to £80,000 a week (again, O'Neill must be lost for words) - while the striker has also moved to slightly warmer climes in the Midlands but it appears an odd time to have forced through a move based solely on salary and lifestyle.
Despite protestations from Bruce that the striker let everyone down at the Stadium of Light by moving to Villa, the opportunity to double your money by selling is good business in anyone's book. At least in the two seasons he was at the club he scored more than 30 Premier League goals.
Perhaps Bent lacks ambition. He turns 27 next month and enters the prime of his career with the probability that he has one more big move ahead of him after joining Villa.
All indications suggest that won't be to a leading club and that seems something of a shame.
But then, it is always harder to swim upstream.
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Journalists seem to be on a mission to out negative each other regarding Bent and the club.
Maybe it's the backlash for a collective bollocking from their editors for not having wind of this deal months ago. It could have filled numerous back pages for days and weeks if they had.
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Journalists seem to be on a mission to out negative each other regarding Bent and the club.
Maybe it's the backlash for a collective bollocking from their editors for not having wind of this deal months ago. It could have filled numerous back pages for days and weeks if they had.
Not a single one has mentioned the absolute fortune handed out in wages to shit players in the past.
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Nah, he'll be straight into Mr Egg or whatever the latest incarnation is.
Food poisoning whilst you wait.
Mr Egg has been shut down :'(
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23915521-as-aston-villa-sink-their-pond-is-just-the-right-size-for-darren-bent.do
Probably best not to read this if you want to avoid an embolism.
As Aston Villa sink, their pond is just the right size for Darren Bent
Sunderland may be reeling from Darren Bent's somewhat baffling decision to jump ship for Aston Villa but they can console themselves with the knowledge that the club have outgrown him.
Bent's desire to exchange the high seas of the Stadium of Light for the troubled waters of Villa Park suggests that he simply relishes life as the big fish in a small pond.
Such has been Sunderland's improvement that perhaps their rivers now run too deep. Bent moved to the north-east in August 2009 for a club record £10.5million and has scored a remarkable 32 goals in 58 Premier League appearances to date as the Black Cats progress under Steve Bruce.
Bent was integral to that development and in the first part of the present campaign, he continued to carry the side's only consistent goalscoring threat.
He stood out as the talisman of a side so reliant on his prowess to keep them afloat. No longer.
Asamoah Gyan has made a hugely promising start to his Sunderland career - after usurping Bent as the club's most expensive asset - and the former Rennes striker appears well-equipped to thrive in English football.
Sunderland's 3-0 victory at Chelsea earlier in the season was sensational in itself - the thought of achieving such a result without Bent would have been incomprehensible before Gyan arrived.
Of course, Bruce envisaged Bent and Gyan tearing into opponents in tandem but their partnership failed to ignite, their movement did not complement each other and they played like strangers. Bruce would have hoped that understanding would have been developed over time but Bent removed that possibility when signing for Villa last night in a £24million deal after handing in a written transfer request following Sunday's 1-1 draw against Newcastle United.
Bent thrives best when a team are built around him but Sunderland have grown to the extent they no longer need to rely on one weapon to attack - Gyan and the hugely promising Danny Welbeck, on loan from Manchester United, have added fresh dimensions to their play. Consequently, Bent has had to adapt as the team developed but he appeared unwilling or incapable of that adjustment.
His career suggests the latter. Of his two seasons at Tottenham, the first was a huge disappointment and even though he finished the second as the club's top scorer with 17 goals in all competitions, Harry Redknapp remained unconvinced of his ability to settle into life as part of a pool of four rotated strikers that exist at nearly all the top sides.
It is a harsh judgement of a player who has scored goals throughout his career but it is hugely questionable whether he can cut it at the highest level; perhaps the world's leading clubs agree given his sudden availability has not provoked a transfer scramble to rival Villa's huge offer.
(Incidentally, a penny for Martin O'Neill's thoughts after leaving Villa over the summer due to a refusal to invest in the playing squad as owner Randy Lerner preached frugality over free spending).
Similarly, his case to play for England remains unconvincing as although he could do little more in terms of scoring goals, it is debatable whether he has the versatility required to succeed at international level.
Bent needs a side to be built around him - it was in such circumstances that he made his name at Charlton and Gerard Houllier should do the same at Villa in a 4-5-1 system with his new man in the limelight at the apex.
In all likelihood, Bent will therefore thrive but that does not qualify the wisdom of the move from the player's perspective.
A full explanation will no doubt emerge over the coming weeks - Bent reportedly asked to leave in the summer only to be talked round by Bruce and the club's hierarchy - but it is hard to believe his England credentials will be enhanced by trading a fight for Europe for a relegation dogfight.
Villa are undeniably a bigger club in terms of their history but their present malaise cannot surely hold greater appeal to a player at a club enjoying such heights as Sunderland are at present.
Cynics would argue the move is about money - Bent is thought to have doubled his wages to £80,000 a week (again, O'Neill must be lost for words) - while the striker has also moved to slightly warmer climes in the Midlands but it appears an odd time to have forced through a move based solely on salary and lifestyle.
Despite protestations from Bruce that the striker let everyone down at the Stadium of Light by moving to Villa, the opportunity to double your money by selling is good business in anyone's book. At least in the two seasons he was at the club he scored more than 30 Premier League goals.
Perhaps Bent lacks ambition. He turns 27 next month and enters the prime of his career with the probability that he has one more big move ahead of him after joining Villa.
All indications suggest that won't be to a leading club and that seems something of a shame.
But then, it is always harder to swim upstream.
Yeah, aren't Sunderland great. With Gyan and Wellbeck (who's not even theirs) they truly are on the move.
If Bent wanted to be a big fish in a small pond he'd have remained there, where he is just about the only star player and the Mackems loved him. He's come to a bigger club, a club with more star players (all be it under performing at the moment).
As far as his England chances are concerned, Capello is a regular at Villa Park. I doubt he made constant 4.5 hour jaunts up to the North East to check on one player. The amount of players we've had in the England squad in recent years would probably indicate that Bent will be OK in that regard - providing he does the business, obv.
Poor article, it almost makes Oliver Holt sound well informed. Rare achievement, that.
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That article in The Standard is just about the most ill informed, snivelling, snide piece of shit I have seen written by any journalist in a long time.
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its just another ill informed piece of shit, like the majority of media articles about us...
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When I took my son to his football training last night I had a couple of Liverpool supporters taking the piss about Villa spending so much on Bent, thought mentioning the fact he was cheaper than Aquillani would do the trick. It did.
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Brucie will be speaking on SSN in a few moments regarding Bent's move.
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he spoke... said nothing of any interest apart from hinting that we tapped him up, without being brave enough to actually say it, and then crying because he didnt get a phone call flowers and chocolate after we butt fucked him...
same old potato face, blaming everyone else and hypocritically whinging like a bellend...
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Well summarised pablopicasso-10 and so eloquently put.
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What some of the hacks are saying ......
Is Darren Bent worth £24m?: Stuart James highlights the net worth of Darren Bent in transfer fees. “Those who have enjoyed following Darren Bent on Twitter (69,261 at the time of going to press) should brace themselves for a barren spell as Aston Villa’s club-record signing waits for the storm from the north- east to blow over. ‘Not for a few days,’ said Bent when asked whether he would carry on tweeting at his new club. ‘I can imagine that I’m getting annihilated by the Sunderland fans. I’m going to leave it.’ Unfortunately for Bent, the criticism does not end there. Steve Bruce, Sunderland’s manager, ensured the 26-year-old would be answering questions not only on what it feels like to be cumulatively the most expensive British player – his transfer to Villa, which could be worth up £24m, means Charlton Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur, Sunderland and his latest employers have spent a total of £53m on him – but also whether his head had been turned a few weeks ago.”
Martin Samuel chimes in to the debate. “Is Bent worth £24m? No. Yet in a climate in which relegation costs £30m and instant promotion would be far from guaranteed, his signing makes business sense to Lerner. He has to gamble because logic – stay as you are and Villa will slowly pull away from the bottom three because they have a superior squad – is getting him nowhere. Yet buying Bent is a huge risk. The last time he went to a high profile club for big money, he seemed cowed by the experience and there is a theory that he is best as a big fish in smaller pools, as happened at Ipswich Town, Charlton and Sunderland. Put under the spotlight, as he will be now, he wilts. There is certainly belief within the England international set-up that Bent’s unfortunate run of injuries when called up to the squad may be an adverse reaction to pressure. Is he the man for the big occasion? Is he right for Aston Villa? This very much depends on how one regards the strain of Villa’s fight against relegation. If Bent gets a good start, he undoubtedly has the talent to shoot his new club out of trouble; if he stalls, however, the intensity will mount, the numbers will be a burden, and Houllier cannot afford his man to be crushed by expectation. As for Lerner, this will have been an education. A successful football club must embrace common sense, but madness, too. The trick is to not to allow too much of either.”
Martin Keown looks at Bent’s psychological profile. “Bent has scored only one goal in his last eight league games. His confidence has been affected, and Villa have made him feel wanted again. This move puts him back into the spotlight. But I don’t think that is healthy – you can’t fill that need for extra confidence by moving every time you feel a bit down. When Bent is confident, he is always looking to pull off the shoulder of the last defender; to stretch the opposition defence and pounce on a through ball. He is a goal machine and that is a vital commodity – especially for Aston Villa at the moment. He can play that role on his own up front or in a partnership – as he did so well with Kenwyne Jones last season. Bent has improved a great deal technically since his Tottenham days. He has learned to improvise with his finishing, adjusting his body so he is in a better position to shoot. His use of both feet is impressive, too.”
Oliver Holt sticks the boot in to Bent. “Until yesterday, I had a lot of respect for Bent. I admired the dignity with which he had handled his desperately harsh omission from England’s World Cup squad last summer. I liked the way he had settled at Sunderland. I admired the way he was playing. I was happy he was on to a good thing at the Stadium of Light. But I don’t feel like that now. The guy’s just another mercenary. Another player with no roots. No loyalty. No soul. Sorry @DB11TT, but you’re a tweet… an absolute tweet.”
Sam Wallace adds his two penneth. “Bruce’s relationship with Bent is known to have been problematic even before the past few days’ dramatic developments and yesterday the gloves were taken off when the deal finally went through at 5pm after delays relating to the £6m sell-on fee owed by Sunderland to Bent’s former club Tottenham Hotspur. Sunderland believe that Bent has been angling for a move since an offer for him from Fenerbahce, the Turkish club, was rejected in the summer. As for Bent, who signed a four-and-a-half-year contract worth around £80,000 a week, he is understood to be angry that Sunderland were so hasty on Monday in making public his transfer request.”
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he spoke... said nothing of any interest apart from hinting that we tapped him up, without being brave enough to actually say it, and then crying because he didnt get a phone call flowers and chocolate after we butt fucked him...
same old potato face, blaming everyone else and hypocritically whinging like a bellend...
Bollocks to him.
And he'd better not dance on our pitch in the future.
The last thing I want to see down Villa Park is somebody doing a Dad dance on our hallowed turf, with a face that looks like it's been set on fire and then put out with a pair of running shoes.
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He's got a face that looks like its been just too close to a quantum singularity.
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He's got a face like a blistered piss pot.
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hes got a face that looks like it has been chasing stationary buses...
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Does Bruce still highlight his hair?
What was the point of that?
Like putting bay windows on a shithouse
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A face like Dudley high street.
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Brilliant.
More, more...
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Face like a blind cobblers thumb.
So ugly his Mother used to feed him by catapult.
So ugly he could use his bottom lip as a bathing cap
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he is shreks facially deformed older brother...
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Didnt I hear Wellbeck is out for 2 mths as well, had to laugh......
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he is... with a knee injury... 6-8 weeks...
i wont *snigger* laugh...
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I know, why die your hair when you have a fizzog like he has - he makes John Merrick look fucking handsome.
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This anti Villa, poor Sunderland, he has signed for a smaller club shit is starting to irritate me now. If a Sky 4 club had picked him up it would have been hailed as the most fantastical signing ever in the history of January transfer windows. The same would have been said had it been Liverpool. Villa are having a bad season by their standards nothing more nothing less. Lest it be forgotten that Villa are statistically the 5th most successful team since this Preeemier League shit began.
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Some of the media stuff seems to indicate we've been where we are now for some time. Do they not realise we've been in the top 6 for the past three years?
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Surprisingly, TalkSport seem to be batting for us at the moment.
I just, to my shame, had something read out on there. It's a slow day.
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Hmmm. I think what Bruce and Quinn are trying to do here is complain so much it detracts from what they've actually done, which is to sell arguably their best striker with the club in 6th place and all to play for. And it's working; instead of mutterings about the club, the Sunderland fans are venting their anger at Bent and Villa. And Houllier.
It doesn't add up for me. Villa didn't want to sell James Milner, a bid was made in May. The whole thing dragged on until August. We wanted to keep him, we tried to keep him. We made a bid for Darren Bent over the weekend; on Monday, Sunderland publicly made it know Bent had handed in a transfer request. They didn't try very hard to keep him.
Now it transpires Bent wanted to leave in the summer... he had seemed unhappy in training (though Bruce claims not to have been aware, his chairman certainly was: great man-management skills, Fist Face), there were these off-pitch incidents with the car and his Mum, etc.
I think they're protesting too much.
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Hmmm. I think what Bruce and Quinn are trying to do here is complain so much it detracts from what they've actually done, which is to sell arguably their best striker with the club in 6th place and all to play for. And it's working; instead of mutterings about the club, the Sunderland fans are venting their anger at Bent and Villa. And Houllier.
It doesn't add up for me. Villa didn't want to sell James Milner, a bid was made in May. The whole thing dragged on until August. We wanted to keep him, we tried to keep him. We made a bid for Darren Bent over the weekend; on Monday, Sunderland publicly made it know Bent had handed in a transfer request. They didn't try very hard to keep him.
Now it transpires Bent wanted to leave in the summer... he had seemed unhappy in training (though Bruce claims not to have been aware, his chairman certainly was: great man-management skills, Fist Face), there were these off-pitch incidents with the car and his Mum, etc.
I think they're protesting too much.
Agreed Merv. I think Bruce was being particularly disingenuous when he said as far as he was aware Bent was happy, and if he wasn't why didn't he speak to Bruce and they'd sort it out, and that it was strange for him to go from a top 6 side to a relegation scrap side so quickly - intimating being tapped up obviously. Yet I've seen it reported that he wasn't happy last summer, and Quinn has said he didn't look right 2 or 3 weeks ago (round about when we played them?? - more for the conspiracy theorists). Bruce also seemed really annoyed that Houllier hadn't spoken to him before or since the transfer - maybe bad manners on Houllier's part, or maybe more sour grapes from Bruce.
Radio 5 seem to be lapping it up - they followed the Bruce bile with Gollum going on AGAIN about us tabling a disrespectful offer for Charlie Adam.
Maybe we're making enemies. Have to say if those enemies are Bruce and Holloway I couldn't give a shit.
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Rumours Sunderland are replacing Bent with Ricardo Fuller.
An underrated player, but crikey, that's some distance from being a suitable replacement.
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Let's go back to the point being made above. Why indeed did they not do more to keep him. I mean it has to be one of the quickest £24m inc add ons deal in history. If he puts in a transfer request why not turn it down. Why not do what we do and say our players are not for sale. It doesn't stack up. In the same way he is being outed as a money grabber, then the same must be said of Sunderland themselves. They couldn't resist the money. At that point he became surplus to their money requirements. They need to move on.
What boils my piss is that no one said this in support of us when Liverpool took the piss with the Barry situation all summer long. No one did when Milner was being prized away from us by those mercenaries at Citeh when it was us who effectively made him the player he has become. No one was supporting us when Yorke said he wanted to leave and Manure made it public including how they wouldn't be held to ransom on the price. This happens all the time in football and yet I can't remember so much vitriol being hurled in the direction of the so called villainous purchasing club in all my life.
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the media hate us... of that i am convinced...
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Bruce is doing my head in now, the breadbin-headed prick.
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Maybe we're making enemies. Have to say if those enemies are Bruce and Holloway I couldn't give a shit.
You know what? Good. I'm sick of us being "nice" Aston Villa. Let's get out there and piss a few people off.
As you say, if those people are tedious rent-a-quote idiots like Fistface and Holloway, then all the better. I really hope we piss Dave Whelan off at some point, then it'll be a full house.
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So ugly his Mother used to feed him by catapult.
Biggest laugh of the day there.
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You have to be pissing Ferguson off before you can start to feel good about yourself.
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Holloway better enjoy his five minutes in the spotlight, he'll be gone soon.
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No one was supporting us when Yorke said he wanted to leave and Manure made it public including how they wouldn't be held to ransom on the price. This happens all the time in football and yet I can't remember so much vitriol being hurled in the direction of the so called villainous purchasing club in all my life.
Aye.
Fergiescum brazenly saying in print "the boy wants to come here" and all the rest of it was perfectly OK. As he did with Saha and countless others.
Re Bent:
If Sunderland are as big a club as Mackems seem to believe now, and if it was wages and wages alone that made Bent trade massive Sunderland for life at VP, why not match the offer?
£70k is a lot, but by mental football wages almost normal for one of your better players. We pay Ash in excess of £65k a week and even Ivanhoe £60k + per week.
If he was that important to them they'd surely find a way of giving an England international parity with his peers.
Might be hard for them to grasp, but maybe he just wanted out of the North East, a chance to catch Capello's eye more often and the chance to play at a bigger club with better players.
What a rotter, fully deserving of death threats for that.
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I hope we sing something better than 'One Darren Bent' on saturday. We should sing his name to the tune Arsenal use for Nasri:
'Darren Darren Bent, Darren Bent
Darren Darren Bent
Na na na na na na na na na na....'
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Bruce should be taking Niall Quinn to task about the snapping Learner's hand off for the cash, not blaming everyone else. Seems to me that Quinn received a cheeky enquiry and Learner called his bluff by stumping up the cash immediately. Sunderland should be glad that Villa didn't do what clubs like Man U, Man City and Liverpool do by unsettling a player for weeks then making a series of derisory offers until the inevitable compromise is reached.
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Bruce should stop whining, he got a very good fee for a player who wanted to leave.
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its a shame that all of this deflecting the criticism from sunderland, and the media trying to dig upwards after they claimed we had no money, has taken the gloss off a really fantastic bit of business for us...
me, im still smiling, and absolutely delighted, despite all the hypocricy and stupidity from sunderland and the media...
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I'm not going to even post the article Ive just read on newsnow it's that poor. But it's yet another angle on Liverpool buying Ashley Young saying he is available but only for £25m and that there has been an indication that the Bent deal was only sanctioned if we sold the likes of Young in the window. What part of 'Downing and Young are not for sale in this window' do they not actually understand.
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Well they can't possibly be wrong about us being skint can they now.
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Gerard Houllier defends his conduct over Bent transfer
BBC Sport Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9370026.stm)
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Cheer up Stevie Bruce
Oh what can it mean
To a, sad Mackem bastard
with no, Bent in his teaaam.
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I didn't think this deserved its own thread, but Bent made a comment on MOTD last night that got me thinking. Along the lines of the service he'd get from Young, Downing and Gabby. I'd speculate a few things - he's thinking he'll get a lot more goal scoring chances and noticed, I mean Capello seems to watch us every week and the shape of things to come football wise.Has Houllier told him about his attacking master plan and the dynasty he's looking to build. The wishful thinker optimist in me also wants to think a statement like that means he knows that Young, Downing etc aren't going anywhere to offset the financial burden of buying him.
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'Ole ole, ole ole, Darren Bent Bent Bent'
Just no. One, it's Dunne's song. Two, it's shit.
It should be the same tune as Arsenal sing for Nasri, the 'baby give it up' tune. Our away fans are more spontaneous and creative so hopefully we'll come up with something better at Wigan. You could tell after he scored nobody knew what to sing for him for a few minutes.
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That was a million paid back by Dazza! Exactly the sort of finish we want, and the sort of forward we've been missing.
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I'm still buzzing about signing Bent.
I'm amazed that we actually needed a striker & we went and got one of the best goal scorers around.
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Qucik question, forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, can Darren Bent play in the FA Cup on Saturday, can't remember if he played for Sunderland in Round 3 and is cup-tied
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He is cup tied, he played against notts county
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No he played against Notts.c
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Why didn't Gareth Barry take the penalty?
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That's boring now!
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Any chance the "Breaking News" part of the thread title could be taken off?
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That's boring now!
Is Prince William a Villa fan?
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Qucik question, forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, can Darren Bent play in the FA Cup on Saturday, can't remember if he played for Sunderland in Round 3 and is cup-tied
Yes he is cup tied but it give a great opportunity to Gabby, Heskey or the Fonz to stake a claim to be his strike partner.
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Thanks for the many replies lol, am going to the game on Saturday, my first of the season and taking my 9 yo son to his first game at Villa Park since he was about 4, was hoping he'd see our new goal machine but never mind
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Darren Bent is proving to be everything we could have hoped for. I don't care what we paid, because in hindsight we've got a very good deal for proven ability, and given what Torres, Carroll, Dzeko and Suarez have cost their respective clubs. Now we need to bed in the midfield and next season rebuild the defence and we'll be in a good place going forward.
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2 in 3 not bad for a "panic buy" go on Benty ..........