Darren Bent

[Dave Cooper please]

The distraction is not good for the club or the manager, these stories will continue and we can nip it in the bud by clearing up the situation with a simple statement .

Lambert has already said that he didn't pick Bent because he picked a team to win the game.
There's your statement, Lambert doesn't think having Bent in the team will win games.

But it seems no one wants to believe that so there's no real point in the club saying anything else because until they say what you want to hear you'll ignore it anyway!

[Dave]

The distraction is not good for the club or the manager, these stories will continue and we can nip it in the bud by clearing up the situation with a simple statement .

Lambert has already said that he didn't pick Bent because he picked a team to win the game.
There's your statement, Lambert doesn't think having Bent in the team will win games.

But it seems no one wants to believe that so there's no real point in the club saying anything else because until they say what you want to hear you'll ignore it anyway!

To repeat what I think lots of us are saying, I'd find that very believable if he were on the bench in place of say Albrighton or Bowery.

As he's not, we can assume that Lambert thinks either Jordan Bowery is more likely to come on and get a late goal than Darren Bent (which although not impossible, I think even Bent's harshest critics would probably agree to be unlikely) or there is an issue at play beyond Bent's footballing ability.

[Risso]

Indeed Dave.  We'd still have won the game if Bent was on the bench on Tuesday, as obviously Bowery had nothing to do with the result.  Lambert wouldn't have looked half as smug if it had been 0-0 though.

[MoetVillan]

perfect scenario for me, is he comes on on saturday, scores a hattrick, and then 'Arry buys him to QPR for 20mil over christmas

[PaulWinch again]

The distraction is not good for the club or the manager, these stories will continue and we can nip it in the bud by clearing up the situation with a simple statement .

Lambert has already said that he didn't pick Bent because he picked a team to win the game.
There's your statement, Lambert doesn't think having Bent in the team will win games.

But it seems no one wants to believe that so there's no real point in the club saying anything else because until they say what you want to hear you'll ignore it anyway!

That may be the case, but I can't think of any logical why Bowery is a better option on the bench than Bent.

[Risso]

The distraction is not good for the club or the manager, these stories will continue and we can nip it in the bud by clearing up the situation with a simple statement .

Lambert has already said that he didn't pick Bent because he picked a team to win the game.
There's your statement, Lambert doesn't think having Bent in the team will win games.

But it seems no one wants to believe that so there's no real point in the club saying anything else because until they say what you want to hear you'll ignore it anyway!

That may be the case, but I can't think of any logical why Bowery is a better option on the bench than Bent.

Or Albrighton.  I'd rather have one less sub on the bench than have young Marc there, unfortunately, such is his total uselessness these days.

[Dave Cooper please]

But no one apparently knows how good Bowery is, maybe he's superb in training and proving that he's the man to replace Benteke up front if we need to sub him for any reason.

[PaulWinch again]

That's clearly not the case though or he'd have had more game time.

[Dave]

But no one apparently knows how good Bowery is, maybe he's superb in training and proving that he's the man to replace Benteke up front if we need to sub him for any reason.

Again, it's not impossible.

But I'd certainly argue that it's improbable that a young man with a one in eight scoring ratio in League Two is scoring more often than of the most prolific goalscorers in the Premier League.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Funny how now he's got no problem with Bent, Redknapp is a ****** pure and simple

[PaulWinch again]

The distraction is not good for the club or the manager, these stories will continue and we can nip it in the bud by clearing up the situation with a simple statement .

Lambert has already said that he didn't pick Bent because he picked a team to win the game.
There's your statement, Lambert doesn't think having Bent in the team will win games.

But it seems no one wants to believe that so there's no real point in the club saying anything else because until they say what you want to hear you'll ignore it anyway!

That may be the case, but I can't think of any logical why Bowery is a better option on the bench than Bent.

Or Albrighton.  I'd rather have one less sub on the bench than have young Marc there, unfortunately, such is his total uselessness these days.

Well yes I actually shuddered when I saw he was one of the substitutes coming on the other night.

[kippaxvilla2]

It's one thing to sell Bent, it's quite another to consider selling him to a relegation rival - surely they wouldn't consider that option.

[PaulWinch again]

But no one apparently knows how good Bowery is, maybe he's superb in training and proving that he's the man to replace Benteke up front if we need to sub him for any reason.

Again, it's not impossible.

But I'd certainly argue that it's improbable that a young man with a one in eight scoring ratio in League Two is scoring more often than of the most prolific goalscorers in the Premier League.

And if it were the case he'd have had more game time than a few minutes against Citeh.

[VillaAlways]

It's one thing to sell Bent, it's quite another to consider selling him to a relegation rival - surely they wouldn't consider that option.

After the McLeish debacle I would put nothing past them

[kippaxvilla2]

And also, if true about the contract situation just shows how short term and narrow minded we have become, £6m saving now, £40m potential loss at the end of the season.  Also, if true, it shows Lambert to be a yes man in my opinion seeing as he has 'no problem with Darren'.