Club that cannot stop scoring lets yesterday's man go forth.

[Dave]

Is that such a mad rationale.

Yes, it's completely ridiculous to want to sign a player just because somebody else might have signed them once upon a time.

Besides, why don't we just bring Beckford in?

[Drummond]

So, we should be keeping a player because the judgement of managers a division down from us is that he'll work well for them, and we should sign loan players from the clubs at the top of our league who can't get a game, because their managers have signed them but don't want to play them.

I like it Baldrick.

[silhillvilla]

Is that such a mad rationale.

Yes, it's completely ridiculous to want to sign a player just because somebody else might have signed them once upon a time.

Besides, why don't we just bring Beckford in?

Well I'd like to hear your thoughts on who we should bring in bearing in mind the complexities and contrition that are represented in the January silly season window.

[aj2k77]

The Darren Bent boat sailed a long time ago. I'd like to see us proactive now and get some forward business done asap.

[pauliewalnuts]

"Most prolific striker"

The man who, in his last 66 games has 14 goals, despite a good chunk of them being in the lower divisions.

[pauliewalnuts]

Our problem isn't even that we lack a decent striker, we don't, we've got a really good one.

Our problem is that we're utterly incapable of getting the ball to him in the right parts of the pitch. We could sign Aguero and it wouldn't change a thing if we didn't get him the ball.

[ciggiesnbeer]

He kept us up and paid back the money we spent on him. I hope he does well at Derby. Its not going to work out with us though.

[Ads]

He's gone to play second fiddle to the lead singer of Coldplay in the second division. As ridiculous thread titles go, this one is up there.

[Clark W Griswold]

Lambert dismissing him virtually as soon as he came in was one of his countless bad decisions. At that point, Bent's scoring record goals per game in a shit Villa team and having had injuries was very good.
I do feel that now Bent is no spring chicken in football terms and hasn't looked too interested or particularly good so far this season means that we are better with Benteke, Gabby, Kozak (once fit) and possiblly even Weimann so there would be no point trying to bring him back in now. Unfortunately its not going to happen for him here now, but i don't recall us wasting a talent more in my 25 villa supporting years. The only one that comes close for baffling ommisions from the Villa team is when we had Mustafa Hadji.

Lambert, you really are useless.

[silhillvilla]

That's the thing. Managed correctly we could of perhaps sold Bent for £10m 18 months ago.

[Stu]

Lambert dismissing him virtually as soon as he came in was one of his countless bad decisions. At that point, Bent's scoring record goals per game in a shit Villa team and having had injuries was very good.

Didn't Lambert make him captain? From memory, Bent's goals dried up at that point as well.

[silhillvilla]

Lambert dismissing him virtually as soon as he came in was one of his countless bad decisions. At that point, Bent's scoring record goals per game in a shit Villa team and having had injuries was very good.

Didn't Lambert make him captain? From memory, Bent's goals dried up at that point as well.

He did , then there was a rumored bust up behind the scenes between the pair.

[mark west]

This surely means we will sign a n other striker in January's window?

We've been linked with a loan move for Sanogo of Arsenal.

Don't know much about him but I'd take him.

Why would you take him if you don't know much about him?

Just to wind you up.

[Ian.]

Lambert dismissing him virtually as soon as he came in was one of his countless bad decisions. At that point, Bent's scoring record goals per game in a shit Villa team and having had injuries was very good.

Didn't Lambert make him captain? From memory, Bent's goals dried up at that point as well.

That's right making him a captain is really dismissing him as soon as he got here.

[supertom]

That's the thing. Managed correctly we could of perhaps sold Bent for £10m 18 months ago.

That is true. The whole bomb squad fiasco has been a joke. Had we not made it so obvious that Bent was not wanted at all, we might have had someone come in and give us some money for him. Now he's going to leave for nothing. We've devalued certain players a lot, and ultimately for what? They've ended up back in the squad after an acknowledgement the whole plan had backfired. As rapid as Bent's decline has been, he could have probably been useful as opposed to getting bumped behind Bowery in the pecking order.
We also sent him out to Fulham completely unfit having ostracised him from first team training in pre-season. He never quite recovered from that. Psychologically to go from being record signing somewhere and top scorer in two (half) seasons to being left with the kids can't have done much for his confidence. Bent might be a busted flush now but Lambert has certainly left a few steamers in the bowl over the last 2 years.

I hope for Bent's sake he sucks it up and really has a go like Hutton has. It's too late for him here, but he could do well at Derby. Good luck to him.