Just because Benteke was better than Bent doesn't mean Bent was shit. That's like saying Mellberg was shit because McGrath was better. Bent was a great goalscorer, but not a great footballer. It's that simple to me.
Quote from: Villa in Denmark on May 01, 2016, 09:51:31 PMCompletely missing the point with the Bent v Benteke value for money thing.We paid top whack for Bent to buy guaranteed goals to keep up us, which he did. In the 2 half seasons he was fit he won us enough games to keep us safe 2 seasons running. Worth every penny of the £18M And whatever Allan C says, he was scoring at not much over 1 in 2 up to the point he was injured. That his overall record ended up closer to 1 ion 3 just shows how much that injury f¤¤ked him.We paid a hefty fee for Benteke in what was either a one of piece of scouting brilliance from Lamber and the brains trust, or we got lucky. £7M for a relatively unknown youngster from a minor European league was a huge gamble. It didn't even pan out the way Lambert thought it would. Go back and listen to some of the interviews when he's getting it in the neck about not playing Bent.He'd bought Benteke to be the target man / foil for Bent. He was Heskey's replacement, not Bent's, but it was soon obvious, even in the ca, 200 minutes they played together that that wasn't going to work, but that Benteke could do the lot on his own and open up for a different approach all together. At that point Bent was consigned to keeping Hutton company and any chance of getting a fee disappeared to a pipe dream.And yes Mr E. Anyone who thinks Lambert's first 2 years were the worst Villa team ever should maybe have a look around. There's one thing in bending the facts, or taking an obtuse view of statistics to support an argument. Completely ignoring the biggest steaming pile of shit to fall on B6 in 30 years to score a point is something else.Villa in Denmark, a simple question, given the choice, would you choose Bent or Benteke?? All other managers since Bent' s transfer have suffered because of it IMO. The 18 million plus should have been spent better IMO
Completely missing the point with the Bent v Benteke value for money thing.We paid top whack for Bent to buy guaranteed goals to keep up us, which he did. In the 2 half seasons he was fit he won us enough games to keep us safe 2 seasons running. Worth every penny of the £18M And whatever Allan C says, he was scoring at not much over 1 in 2 up to the point he was injured. That his overall record ended up closer to 1 ion 3 just shows how much that injury f¤¤ked him.We paid a hefty fee for Benteke in what was either a one of piece of scouting brilliance from Lamber and the brains trust, or we got lucky. £7M for a relatively unknown youngster from a minor European league was a huge gamble. It didn't even pan out the way Lambert thought it would. Go back and listen to some of the interviews when he's getting it in the neck about not playing Bent.He'd bought Benteke to be the target man / foil for Bent. He was Heskey's replacement, not Bent's, but it was soon obvious, even in the ca, 200 minutes they played together that that wasn't going to work, but that Benteke could do the lot on his own and open up for a different approach all together. At that point Bent was consigned to keeping Hutton company and any chance of getting a fee disappeared to a pipe dream.And yes Mr E. Anyone who thinks Lambert's first 2 years were the worst Villa team ever should maybe have a look around. There's one thing in bending the facts, or taking an obtuse view of statistics to support an argument. Completely ignoring the biggest steaming pile of shit to fall on B6 in 30 years to score a point is something else.
Out of contract 30.6.16About 50 days.Like Ben Arfa, he's sure to resurrect his career elsewhere.Flowerpot man.
Quote from: b23 on May 10, 2016, 10:31:28 PMOut of contract 30.6.16About 50 days.Like Ben Arfa, he's sure to resurrect his career elsewhere.Flowerpot man.During which time he'll have received another £420,000!
I would not be surprised that in the mad world of premiership footballers contracts, if NZogbia was not entitled to a loyalty bonus at the end of his 5 year contract with us!
The justification for buying Bent was that he enabled us to avoid relegation. Through no fault of his own he has now become a waste of money - we eventually got relegated anyways.You could argue that we would have been better off getting relegated during Houllier's season. It's not got any easier to get promoted to the PL and hopefully we'd have been back up by now.In the last 5 years we have spent a shedload of money, seen maybe half a dozen really good games and have stunk the PL out with increasing degrees of pungency. Does it really make any difference how good Darren Bent was ?
Signing Darren Bent was the last time we acted like the big club we are.
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