Darren Bent

[MarkM]

I'm sure he gets £80K a week, and for me, if he's scoring goals, he's worth every penny.

I hope that had a sarcastic edge!

[supertom]

If we're gonna start giving him service, then keep him. This for starters means that the other 9 outfield players have to be able to keep the ball a lot better.

If we don't, then we may as well sell him and use the money to buy 2-3 decent players and sort out the midfield and defence. If we could pull off a Yakubu type signing, or a Demba Ba then we could replace the goals. Big IF of course. Gabby playing up top could get enough goals IMO.

Right now though, I'd suggest that when Bent plays, we don't look quite as effective as a team. You know with that type of player you basically have to play much of the game with 9 outfielders. I don't think we'll pull off that with McLeish. Bent's still our top scorer, but lets face it, 6 goals so far is not enough. Him doing next to nothing in games has hindered more than its helped.

However would I really want us to sell? No. Because I don't trust the manager signing the players that money would be used for. Furthermore I don't trust the board to fully re-invest it in players.

And Bent is apparently on infinity plus 2 dollars a week.

[Jimmy Smash]

The problem is that it is not up to us whether we keep him or not. Does he want to go? What tools can he use to force a sale? Maybe it's better to sell him if he wants to go and use the money to buy someone who wants to be here? Ironic smily face thing.

[Villanation]

Bent is on £6.90 per hour but he gets time and a half on Saturdays, true, saw it on Twatter.

No footballer in the world is on that much.

[JUAN PABLO]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

[brian green]

That £6.90 an hour is before tax don't forget and he has to pay for his half an orange at half time and dubbin for his boots out of that.

[PeterWithesShin]

Is that why he moonlights as a personal shopper in his spare time?

[Villanation]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

[dave.woodhall]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

You can't have something confirmed if it hasn't happened.

[Jimmy Smash]

It's a bit of brass neck for us to accuse other teams of being cloggers at the moment.

[LeeB]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

You can't have something confirmed if it hasn't happened.

I can confirm I'm about to eat Spaghetti Bolognese.

[Villanation]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

You can't have something confirmed if it hasn't happened.

You know what I mean, what I should have said is I have had yet someone else confirm the comment made to me the other day that Bent is indeed on his way.

Jez.....How many lawyers are on this board. 

[dave.woodhall]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

You can't have something confirmed if it hasn't happened.

I can confirm I'm about to eat Spaghetti Bolognese.

That's because you are about to eat spaghetti bolognese - the key words being 'about to'. You cannot yet confirm you are eating, or have eaten, spaghetti bolognese.

[brian green]

Exactly PWS.   When he was dropped..er, sorry injured the other day he came shopping in Cambridge.

He came in ours and asked what we had going cheap.   I offered him a very nice hardly used Chair in Applied Calculus for three grand or a PhD is Nuclear Physics for fifteen hundred or leaf sweeping for Jesus broom and overalls provided fifty notes a day cash in hand.   He was not interested so I carried on serving Stephen Hawking.

[Villanation]

been out all day , what is the latest . This Liverpool fan told me earlier , they are paying 15 million and Carroll for DB ....

I've had it confirmed again that Darren Bent is a Liverpool player.

We will soon know, if he plays tomorrow he's Villa's, think about it, just the kind of game to get his eye back in, if he doesn't figure that's because the club have taken the decision not to risk him against what could potentially be a team of cloggers, with all due respect to Bristol Rovers, but lower league team players are much more full blooded and they will want to leave a few scars and dents tomorrow.

Villa won't want to risk Bent getting a dent 

You can't have something confirmed if it hasn't happened.

I can confirm I'm about to eat Spaghetti Bolognese.

Don't forget the cheese