Darren Bent - worth every penny

[eamonn]

As an aside, has anyone done a scout on Sunderland, Spurs and Arsenal forums today? Be interesting what they make of his display.

[Mac]

Lee Dixon "heaped" praise on Bent by saying last night, "some sniffed at his price tag".  Yeah, you and your fucking know nothing cronies in the media. Gone quiet hasn't it.

[LeeB]

Lee Dixon "heaped" praise on Bent by saying last night, "some sniffed at his price tag".  Yeah, you and your fucking know nothing cronies in the media. Gone quiet hasn't it.

About two minutes after that, the commentator on the scouse game that followed picked out Suarez as "probably the pick of the big money January moves".

Twat.

[Olneythelonely]

Remember Collymore's comments? He's already scored more than Stan did in his entire time at Villa.

[Astral Weeks]

he can miss 4-5 sitters per game for all i care as long as his goals per game ratio stays at the current level

According to Mat Kendrick, he's scored 9 from 18 shots on target since joining us, so he doesn't miss too many.

[Mazrim]

Lee Dixon "heaped" praise on Bent by saying last night, "some sniffed at his price tag".  Yeah, you and your fucking know nothing cronies in the media. Gone quiet hasn't it.

About two minutes after that, the commentator on the scouse game that followed picked out Suarez as "probably the pick of the big money January moves".

Twat.

Yeah, that boiled my piss somewhat. But it's to be expected I suppose.

Bent: £18m - 9 goals in 14 games.
Suarez: £23m - 4 goals in 12 games.

Yeah, I think I know who the best deal was.

[LeeB]

Plus, if you factor in the cost of the carrots Suarez must get through.......

[badluckeric(gates)]

As an aside I remember a certain MON stating that(and I quote) 'we don't need a marquee signing'.
That Mr o'neill is exactly what we needed at that time, and in those seasons when we were close to top 4 if we had had a 'bent' to convert our wing play would have seen us finish top 4.
And to think I used to be a big MON fan.

[London Villan]

If anyone did come in for him they would be looking at a minimum of £40m... no club, barring Man City have the power to do that.

[Mazrim]

I dont even think its a case of a Marquee signing. We just needed a player to finish chances, whether he cost £50m or £500.000 and whether everybody or nobody had heard of him.

But Bent was always the obvious choice for me. It's so frustrating that we didn't get him sooner.
I am convinced we'd be in the champions league by now and maybe a trophy or two better off.
It's not like he wasn't gettable either.

[Chris Smith]

It would have ben great to have him two years ago but there's no doubt that he's a much better player now than he was then. You can see it when he plays for England, now he looks the part where previously he looked a bit out of his depth. We've got him in his prime.

[Concrete John]

Bent: £18m - 9 goals in 14 games.
Suarez: £23m - 4 goals in 12 games.

To be fair, 1 in 3 for the 'support striker' isn't too bad.

But it's clear to anyone without their own biased agenda that that oour Darren has been the best of the big January moves.

[Concrete John]

It would have ben great to have him two years ago but there's no doubt that he's a much better player now than he was then. You can see it when he plays for England, now he looks the part where previously he looked a bit out of his depth. We've got him in his prime.

Now I know MON spent a lot on poor players who didn't get much of a kick for us, as in truth all clubs/managers do, but he did build an excellent defence and a midfield containing Young, Milner and Downing.  Presumably one of those components would have been sacrificed to buy Bent.

It's a shame with the timing as in previous years he'd have been that near legendary 'last piece of the jigsaw' and now I think he's the first piece of our new jigsaw.

[Mazrim]

Bent is in his Prime but has always been a goalscorer. If we had him a couple of years ago (and it could have been easily funded buy not having to buy a defence twice over and not buying Heskey) the results would still have meant the goals to secure top 4 and perhaps silverware.

I think if MON had gone to Randy at the time Spurs were looking to offload and said "look, this guy will make the difference and take us where we need to go", it would have been funded regardless.
But that's all by the by now. We have to (re)build a team around this guy now and we can still trouble the top spots.

[badluckeric(gates)]

Totally agree Maz.