Breaking News: Bent Signs

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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.

[Phil from the upper holte]

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

[Matt Collins]

Yorke was my favourite player by a mile. He was technically excellent and msn of the match almost every game for two years

[Rip Van We Go Again]

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.

[damon loves JT]

Maybe 'not technically gifted' means 'unable to repair oil-fired central heating systems.' Otherwise it's a very poor description of Yorke.

[WikiVilla]

Has bent signed yet ?

[pedro25]

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. 

[Kingthing]

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.

[Shrek]

Is it true Bent is at the training ground?

[lovejoy]

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.

[Jimbo]

Come on. It's not like we've got a track record of screwing things up at the very last minute, is it?

[lovejoy]

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.

[pmk1981]

he aint gonna come,  i can feel it...paper talk is gonna fuck it all up :-(

[derek.anon]

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

[derek.anon]

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.