Darren Bent joins Fulham on loan (Reply #486)

[pauliewalnuts]

Bugger. I always go to Fulham ( one of the worst away days if you've never been before - especially south of the river).He is bound to score.

Seriously?

Fulham is my favourite away trip by miles.

And it's only about 10 yards south of the river. It's hardly Croydon

Indeed.

I must have been going to the wrong place all these years. I always found it north of the river.

An even better point.

[Toronto Villa]

Is he going on loan or permanently? If he's on loan then he might not be available to play against us.

He definitely won't be allowed to play against us if it is a loan.

I think they should stop PL clubs taking loans. It's all a bit nonsensical, really.

don't disagree but I'm sure Villa held on for a team to pay his wages in full, or close to it, and there will likely be a smaller transfer fee at the end with him having one year left on his deal. I'm sure they'll be paying us something every month too. You also know if it was permanent he'd be bagging a brace against us so maybe the loan is better. But yes, as a principle loans between PL clubs makes no sense.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Bugger. I always go to Fulham ( one of the worst away days if you've never been before - especially south of the river).He is bound to score.

Seriously?

Fulham is my favourite away trip by miles.

And it's only about 10 yards south of the river. It's hardly Croydon

Indeed.

I must have been going to the wrong place all these years. I always found it north of the river.

Clever Clogs

[sirlordbaltimore]

How it's come to this I don't know. A guaranteed goalscorer shipped out on loan. It's not like we were falling over ourselves with goals last season

I just hope Benteke doesn't get injured and we have to bring on Bowery ... AARGGHH

[Meanwood Villa]

How it's come to this I don't know. A guaranteed goalscorer shipped out on loan. It's not like we were falling over ourselves with goals last season

I just hope Benteke doesn't get injured and we have to bring on Bowery ... AARGGHH

That's what gladiators are for

[Fasth56]

Having medical at Fulham according to SSN, never famous half arsed manager sounded pissed off because he thought he'd got him.

[CJ]

£4,999,976 profit can't be bad!

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

You're both wrong. According to this report on the Beeb we paid even less than that -  "Bent, a club record £18 signing in 2011"

[olaftab]

I must have been going to the wrong place all these years. I always found it north of the river.

 In ancient times before the start of the Premier League the river used to run down Fulham Broadway therfore ground was south  of the river. Amazing how the landscape has changed since 1992!

[paul_e]

Not  to be pedantic but I'm fairly sure the river is running North to South when it passes the Fulham ground so it's technically on the east side of the river. 

[IFWaters]

Yes but no-one in London calls it 'east of the river' ; South of the border , Out of Order as them cockerney types like to say.

There is certainly quite a difference north and south in my experience, different outlook on life.

There's no such great geographical divide in Brum that I know of : Discuss.

[Small Rodent]

Yes but no-one in London calls it 'east of the river' ; South of the border , Out of Order as them cockerney types like to say.

There is certainly quite a difference north and south in my experience, different outlook on life.

There's no such great geographical divide in Brum that I know of : Discuss.

Yes. South of the river is best.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Yes but no-one in London calls it 'east of the river' ; South of the border , Out of Order as them cockerney types like to say.

There is certainly quite a difference north and south in my experience, different outlook on life.

There's no such great geographical divide in Brum that I know of : Discuss.

Yes. South of the river is best.

True. South east, if I'm being technical

They're all soft bummers up north

[GarethRDR]

£2m loan fee plus 100% of his wages to be paid by Fulham (and with no set future fee/option-to-buy)?  Pretty happy with that. 

Worst case scenario - Bent has a stinker of a season, no clubs want to buy him and we're stuck with him for the last year of his contract (assuming we can't find another club to loan him out to), but we get his wages off the books for a year plus £2m in the bank to offset against the last year of his contract with us.  Effectively, we've just got Fulham to pay the majority of the remainder of Bent's contract with us.

Best case scenario - Bent has a blinder (plus can't play directly against us), sparks interest from a host of clubs (as Fulham didn't agree an option-to-buy) and we'll likely get our asking price for him, on top of that £2m we'd already made from loaning him out.

[Dante Lavelli]

Yes but no-one in London calls it 'east of the river' ; South of the border , Out of Order as them cockerney types like to say.

There is certainly quite a difference north and south in my experience, different outlook on life.

There's no such great geographical divide in Brum that I know of : Discuss.

Yes. South of the river is best.

Nice bits, but Clapham ruins everything.

[Dave]

One of either Martin Jol or the new owner is clearly mental:

"I don't know what's happening. Darren's probably doing his own thing. We're not sure about it," the Fulham boss said.
 
"We don't speculate on players and can only give an answer when a deal is finalised. We'll see in the next day or two."

"We need quality up front and we're trying to get someone in that position in the next week. We need some pace up front," Jol said.

"People were telling me yesterday that he was having a medical at Crystal Palace. That is changing every day," Jol said.
 
"I thought yesterday that he was going to Ian Holloway. It's tough in the Premier League.
 
"I'm not sure if other managers should say things like that, because we are not 100 per cent sure about any player and I have a few players on the list.
 
"Maybe some geezer told him he was coming to us. Maybe he's right, maybe not. We'll see in the next day."

"The new owner's not interfering with anything. The only thing he said was try to create a nice sausage.
 
"He knows that we like sausages here. As long as it's a nice sausage he'll be happy."

I also like the idea of Jol saying the word 'geezer' in his Dutch accent.