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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #90 on: May 15, 2011, 06:27:13 PM »
His first goal today was an absolutely brilliant finish.

I'm staggered the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool have never tried to sign him.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #91 on: May 15, 2011, 06:29:57 PM »
More than worth every penny.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #92 on: May 15, 2011, 06:30:38 PM »
I suggested him as my player of the season a few weeks back, and hardly anybody agreed with me.  Anybody disagree now?

I said that he came a close second.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #93 on: May 15, 2011, 06:31:34 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #94 on: May 15, 2011, 06:32:47 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

I still think MON made the right decision in signing Heskey instead.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #95 on: May 15, 2011, 06:34:28 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

The season he moved to Sunderland the goals for us really dried up after January. With the amount of chances we created that year we could have really threatened the upper echelons of the table. So short sighted of MON not to have seen him as the final piece in the jigsaw.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #96 on: May 15, 2011, 06:35:01 PM »
Thank the Gods we've got him.  He is invaluable as we look like we've always got a goal in us with him there, without him, we would be nothing as an attacking force.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #97 on: May 15, 2011, 06:39:54 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.


thats it though. MON would never have bought him. Not a MON type player

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #98 on: May 15, 2011, 06:47:08 PM »
Where would we be without him?
Need to concentrate on keeping him now.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #99 on: May 15, 2011, 06:49:27 PM »
The first today was awesome. Would be second in my player of the season chart now.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #100 on: May 15, 2011, 06:49:38 PM »
Whoever was responsible for getting that signature on the contract deserves the freedom of the city.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #101 on: May 15, 2011, 07:07:37 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

Although I agree we should have bought him then, he was also sold by everyones "better then MON manager". Today showed him at his best and worse. One of the best natural finishers in the league and we need that. But one of the worst at holding the ball when the team are being stifled or penned back.

We need to build the team around him now though. Wingers or attacking fullbacks and CM's who can thread the ball though to him in the channels and someone who can get up the field to support him depending on the formation.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #102 on: May 15, 2011, 07:08:48 PM »
Thank God we have Darren Bent.

We haven't had a goalscorer since Dwight Yorke.

I love Bent so much... both his goals today were sublime. Great finishes.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #103 on: May 15, 2011, 07:10:58 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

The season he moved to Sunderland the goals for us really dried up after January. With the amount of chances we created that year we could have really threatened the upper echelons of the table. So short sighted of MON not to have seen him as the final piece in the jigsaw.

Was it his choice? Would the board have sanctioned the £10mil as apparently he had spent the over the seasons budget with his summer purchases of Milner, Young and Cueller IIRC.

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Re: Darren Bent - worth every penny
« Reply #104 on: May 15, 2011, 07:12:34 PM »
He's fucking brilliant. It really is as simple as that.

God only knows how things might had panned out, had O'Neill bought him when he went to Sunderland for a modest 10m.

The season he moved to Sunderland the goals for us really dried up after January. With the amount of chances we created that year we could have really threatened the upper echelons of the table. So short sighted of MON not to have seen him as the final piece in the jigsaw.

Was it his choice? Would the board have sanctioned the £10mil as apparently he had spent the over the seasons budget with his summer purchases of Milner, Young and Cueller IIRC.
I am quite sure you have made this up.

 


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