Darren Bent joins Fulham on loan (Reply #486)

[eamonn]

What the blazes are people on about?

[Des Little]

28 pages on one player due to leave at various stages of the last two months. Totes amazeballs as they say these days.

[Louzie0]

Is he off, then?

[danlanza]

Yeah. Two bottles of San Valentine and 3 bottles of Yaiza smooth white wine. Sell him now !

[Lsvilla]

having a medical at Fulham now according to 'Sky sources'

[VillaAlways]

Really hope this isn't going to come back on bite us on the ass

[paul_e]

Good luck to him if the Fulham move goes through, good player for a couple of years and hasn't really don'e anything wrong, he's just not in the same place as the club now.  If he can stay fit he'll do well for them.

[Legion]

£4,999,976 profit can't be bad!

[not3bad]

£4,999,976 profit can't be bad!

Still think we should have tried to knock them down to £22.50

[curiousorange]

No disrespect to Fulham, but I can't really fathom how Bent's not spent a career knocking around Champions League football rather than mid-table mediocrity. The guy should be a club and England legend but he's never really cemented a place anywhere, has he?

[alteavilla]

with the bent fee and what Liverpool owed us on downing
marque signing soon  ?

[Monty]

No disrespect to Fulham, but I can't really fathom how Bent's not spent a career knocking around Champions League football rather than mid-table mediocrity. The guy should be a club and England legend but he's never really cemented a place anywhere, has he?

Because he can only do one thing and demands the whole team is set up so he can do it. Not to knock him, but he kind of extends his limitations to an entire team. He kept us up and my god we needed some reinstating of football basics when he came in, but he's being left behind by our style now.

[pauliewalnuts]

with the bent fee and what Liverpool owed us on downing
marque signing soon  ?

Why would Liverpool owe us any more on Downing? Unless we had a sell on clause it wouldn't make any difference whether they'd sold him or not - ie if the agreement was 5m a year for four years, that'd still be the agreement now.

Transfer fees never get paid in one lump sum.

[Concrete John]

No disrespect to Fulham, but I can't really fathom how Bent's not spent a career knocking around Champions League football rather than mid-table mediocrity. The guy should be a club and England legend but he's never really cemented a place anywhere, has he?

Because he can only do one thing and demands the whole team is set up so he can do it. Not to knock him, but he kind of extends his limitations to an entire team. He kept us up and my god we needed some reinstating of football basics when he came in, but he's being left behind by our style now.

Very true.

It's also because CL clubs will have strikers who can score the same, and oftten more, goals as Bent, but also offer much more to their side in terms of all round game.  If you're not playing well, Bent won't pick up the ball, beat two players and stick it in the top corner from 25 yards.  CL clubs want strikers who can, such as Rooney, Tevez, etc.

[JUAN PABLO]

I think jol actually plays football the right way and he has wingers . Bent will score loads there and do well . good luck to him. Always liked him.