Darren Bent - so what now?

[JUAN PABLO]

theres no cutting edge in this team , no creativity .

Bent will struggle , but hes a better player than gabby , weimann , holt ( has he gone )  and bowery

[Dave]

Bent scored regularly for us when he had Young, Downing (ducks) and Gabby (on form) providing the openings for him.
I don't think we have anyone who can open up a defence or deliver a decent through ball anymore.

When he was scoring loads of goals for Charlton and Sunderland he didn't exactly have Zidane and Iniesta putting balls through for him either though.

[pooligan]

Bowery in front of Bent ? Can anybody tell me when he last scored a goal at any level ? His performances at Man City and Tottenham ,where if i remember rightly,he was taken off in both, were embarrassing . I remember Collymore saying during the Man City match that he did'nt think Bowery was Premier league standard

[Steve kirk]

Bent can still do a job for us, I really believe if given a chance he would want to prove a lot of people wrong but I doubt whether Lambert will pick him.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Do we know what he's accused of yet?

[LeeB]

Do we know what he's accused of yet?

Being a shadow of the player he once was?

[Vegas]

Bent back, plus N'Zogbia, plus Okore, plus Tekkers.  My genuine thoughts are this could be a better season.  How times have changed.

 

[Colin B]

Personally I hope Newcastle/Fulham or somebody else loans him for the last year of his contract and pays all his salary.

We could then go and loan Lukaku for a year with the money saved.

Actually ideally I hope if we could loan Bent out we could and buy Lukaku and plan long term for him and Benteke  to be our forward partnership.

I can but dream

[Vegas]

Yep - we have not got a hope in hell of getting lukaku sadly.

I quite like this Atletico Madrid model of signing loads of cheap-ish, unknown-ish players and simply turning them into a Champion's League winning team.  Why haven't we tried that?

[Monty]

Bent might do well for us under Lambert, though only in away games really. His game is based on doing nothing but turning up into the box, and the trouble with that is that everyone has to contribute to the ball ending up in the box when you're breaking down defences. However, you can leave this out on the break where there's more space, and Bent might be useful there.

[peter w]

Bent couldn't even get into a poor Fulham team when they were lightweight upfront. He had all the incentive needed, still young enough and witha place at the World Cup on offer he should have bene fired up from the off. That he disappeared says a lot about his ability right now. He was rightly dropped last year and I can't see why or what those wanting to give him a chance are seeing now.

[QBVILLA]

Bent couldn't even get into a poor Fulham team when they were lightweight upfront. He had all the incentive needed, still young enough and witha place at the World Cup on offer he should have bene fired up from the off. That he disappeared says a lot about his ability right now. He was rightly dropped last year and I can't see why or what those wanting to give him a chance are seeing now.

When Benteke was fit and banging in the goals we also had Weimann and Gabby chipping in as well. However, Gabby and Weimann haven't been firing and Benteke looks unlikely to be back until Christmas. I think it's only natural in our current position of no sign of new players to look at Bent and think he has got to be worth a shot. Last season was woeful for Bent, maybe there were mitigating factors,I don't know but given his career record over the past ten years i'd be happy enough to see him back in a Villa shirt.

[Matt Collins]

Bent better than gabby?!

Put together a highlight reel of contributions from the last season would answer that one

Gabby did more in 45 minutes at anfield than bent did all season

[ROBBO]

I watched Bent closely last season he looked lost and disinterested.

[pauliewalnuts]

Bent better than gabby?!

Put together a highlight reel of contributions from the last season would answer that one

Gabby did more in 45 minutes at anfield than bent did all season

Indeed.

Although neither did anything like enough.