Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert denies rift with Darren Bent

[Clampy]

No suggestion Bent is getting itchy feet? You don't think? It's all hearsay at the moment but the momentum is building. It feels quite disruptive right now. January will be interesting.

Even if he was starting every game and scoring goals, there'd still be talk of him leaving in January, it's been like that since he's been here.

[kippaxvilla2]

Looking at it far more rationally, who would pay the money for him we would demand and the wages he enjoys given the form he is currently in.  Let's look at the options.

Manure - No
Many Citeh - v doubtful given their options.
Chelsea - very slight possibility but surely not given Torres etc.
Arse - wouldnt pay the money or wages.
Bindippers - wouldnt be able to afford him.
Nottingham Hotspurts - No they wouldnt have him back.
QPR - why would he except for anything other than money - a possibility I suppose.
Everton - couldnt afford him.

Who else is there.

[nick harper]

No suggestion Bent is getting itchy feet? You don't think? It's all hearsay at the moment but the momentum is building. It feels quite disruptive right now. January will be interesting.

Agreed. How many times have we seen this at VP before? Lots of denials at the club, the manager keeps saying everything is fine, but the whispers continue. As a fan of more years than I care to admit, this is only going in one direction. He will be gone by next summer if not before.

[Damo70]

I don't think QPR could afford him. For all the players they have brought in, they haven't splashed huge transfer fees and the wage bill there now must be interesting. I think the only time Liverpool would both want him and be prepared to pay big money for him is if they are still struggling in January. Which poses the question, would he make a sideways move to a club further North at that time?

[Matt C]

So after moaning to the media about not being in the team he's now moaning to the media having been in the team? Our Darren needs to keep his trap shut.

[Mister E]

Looking at it far more rationally, who would pay the money for him we would demand and the wages he enjoys given the form he is currently in.  Let's look at the options.

Manure - No
Many Citeh - v doubtful given their options.
Chelsea - very slight possibility but surely not given Torres etc.
Arse - wouldnt pay the money or wages.
Bindippers - wouldnt be able to afford him.
Nottingham Hotspurts - No they wouldnt have him back.
QPR - why would he except for anything other than money - a possibility I suppose.
Everton - couldnt afford him.

Who else is there.

Why wouldn't Spurrrrrrrs have him back, with new manager in place?

[eastie]

Looking at it far more rationally, who would pay the money for him we would demand and the wages he enjoys given the form he is currently in.  Let's look at the options.

Manure - No
Many Citeh - v doubtful given their options.
Chelsea - very slight possibility but surely not given Torres etc.
Arse - wouldnt pay the money or wages.
Bindippers - wouldnt be able to afford him.
Nottingham Hotspurts - No they wouldnt have him back.
QPR - why would he except for anything other than money - a possibility I suppose.
Everton - couldnt afford him.

Who else is there.

Why wouldn't Spurrrrrrrs have him back, with new manager in place?

Liverpool could afford him if Carroll joins west ham permanently as seems likely.

[Chris Smith]

No suggestion Bent is getting itchy feet? You don't think? It's all hearsay at the moment but the momentum is building. It feels quite disruptive right now. January will be interesting.

So, because the internet is full of hearsay there is momentum building. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[Risso]

No suggestion Bent is getting itchy feet? You don't think? It's all hearsay at the moment but the momentum is building. It feels quite disruptive right now. January will be interesting.

So, because the internet is full of hearsay there is momentum building. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It isn't all hearsay though is it?  Bent has said himself on more than once occasion now that he isn't happy, and as we've seen from him in the past, that usually ends with him moving on.

[hawkeye]

its pretty obvious that Bent is on the way out,it only works with  Bent if you set the whole team up to create chances for him, he is virtuallly useless at everything else than scoring.
We need our ten outfield players operating on the pitch, we are not good enough to carry a bloke that can not, trap, control or pass the ball.
 The reason we need to lose Bent is not Bents fault, it is because we do not have enough ability to carry him.

[Dave Clark Five]

....we are not good enough to carry a bloke that can not, trap, control or pass the ball.
 

That just about sums it up for me. May as well play with ten men.

[1874]

I have to agree with some of the comments here. I don't think selling Bent can really make us much worse considering the way PL sets us up. Clearly PL is trying to drive a new ethic into the team and Bent doesn't fit in with it. Not his fault, he has been successful in the way he has been playing and he is probably too long in the tooth to change his playing style.

[Phil from the upper holte]

We've cried out for a player like Bent for years and now he's here we want to get rid? the simple problem is were not creating enough chances for him, Im willing to bet if he'd been on the pitch at spurs we'd have been 2 up given the Benteke chances (this is not knocking Benteke) he needs the correct service and he's not getting it. He's never worked hard or put a big shift in, it's not his game and it never will be

[eastie]

Houllier bought bent and played to his strengths with young and downing supplying him and bent flourished, if you are not playing with quality wide men then bent will be a passenger .

[Monty]

The fact is that most of the teams who might sign him won't because he's not good enough. Everton don't need him, his lack of work would ruin their system. Spurs already have Defoe, a technically better and more dynamic version of Bent. As for United, City, Chelsea and Arsenal, they're no more likely to sign him than they are to appoint Mick McCarthy as manager. Only Liverpool might be tempted, and even then I don't think Rodgers would pay the money required on a player he'd probably imagine is not technically up to his style of play, and he can get better value abroad.

As far as I'm concerned, the only options for him would be QPR (definitely dumb enough) or staying put. It still surprises me that some fans want to build the side around a player it's nearly impossible to imagine any of the better sides in the league would sign.