I hope he does get (and finishes) the chance to sign off in a flourish that guarantees our survival.
I like Bent and I loved his obvious joy at Lowtons goal. Bent will help us yet gents. A good player who will fight his way back into the starting line up. We should be happy to have such competition for the forward spaces.
Quote from: ciggiesnbeer on April 09, 2013, 06:02:32 AMI like Bent and I loved his obvious joy at Lowtons goal. Bent will help us yet gents. A good player who will fight his way back into the starting line up. We should be happy to have such competition for the forward spaces.I like bent too- his goals saved us a couple of years back and he is a quality goalscorer- I think he will move on in the summer if we keep benteke , and if so i will wish him well.
Quote from: eastie on April 09, 2013, 07:43:06 AMQuote from: ciggiesnbeer on April 09, 2013, 06:02:32 AMI like Bent and I loved his obvious joy at Lowtons goal. Bent will help us yet gents. A good player who will fight his way back into the starting line up. We should be happy to have such competition for the forward spaces.I like bent too- his goals saved us a couple of years back and he is a quality goalscorer- I think he will move on in the summer if we keep benteke , and if so i will wish him well.Darren Bent has scored 124 Premier League goals. At this present time everything appears hunky dory. Benteke/Weimann and even Agbonlahor (remarkably) are scoring goals so he doesnt matter.But he might do.If we go down it is accepted that Benteke will move on.Weimann might as well. If we stay up once again the money boys will come racing in for Benteke straight away with the offer of riches beyond his dreams which will set him up for life at the age of 22.He has the choice of a wage increase at Villa Park that will be substantial or a wage increase ,at say ,Man City that would be astronomical.What would you do?Which leaves us without a goal scoring centre forward .Except we have one! Lambert only has to find a winger in the Aaron Lennon mould who can cross a ball at pace and Bent will get on the end of it.Lambert (who is flavour of the month at the moment) will not do this and therefore he will play..Jordan Bowery at centre forward a limited fourth division player who works hard.Only my opinion but I think Lambert is poor tactically and wants our club to mirror how he had Norwich playing that is a mid table club like Fulham who sometimes look better than what they actually are.The summer break will be interesting!
This is getting very tired. Bent can only play up front, not in any of the support strikers role. Benteke is sensational. Lambert clearly made the right call. We can't play 442Simple
Quote from: Matt Collins on April 09, 2013, 09:51:04 AMThis is getting very tired. Bent can only play up front, not in any of the support strikers role. Benteke is sensational. Lambert clearly made the right call. We can't play 442SimpleCorrect. He is an out and out goalscoring centre forwardWe know Benteke is sensational. So what do we do if he decides money is his objective and moves to a club who will pay him a weekly salary of far far in excess of the 40000 grand a week we will no doubt offer him?Whats your solution to this problem Matt?Nothing in life is simple.
Quote from: Ron Manager on April 09, 2013, 10:19:11 AMQuote from: Matt Collins on April 09, 2013, 09:51:04 AMThis is getting very tired. Bent can only play up front, not in any of the support strikers role. Benteke is sensational. Lambert clearly made the right call. We can't play 442SimpleCorrect. He is an out and out goalscoring centre forwardWe know Benteke is sensational. So what do we do if he decides money is his objective and moves to a club who will pay him a weekly salary of far far in excess of the 40000 grand a week we will no doubt offer him?Whats your solution to this problem Matt?Nothing in life is simple.How about we trust the manager who bought the 'sensational' Benteke to find a suitable replacement, if he believes Bent is the right person to be that replacement then fine, if he doesn't then I'm going to trust his judgement. His eye for a good striker is one thing no one can deny right now.