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

[Phil from the upper holte]

No I wouldn't and no we can't

[Dave]

As we cannot recall him (due to someone at Villa Villa Park not thinking out of the box) this thread is completely pointless.

Nobody has a lower opinion of the competence of our board at the moment than me, but this isn't their foul.

Any loan longer then 28 days cannot have a recall option. S'in the FA rules, innit.

[tim]

DB is far from crap, and in an ideal situation I think it would be great to give him a go with a new start/style of football (hopefully a new style, anyway!).
Definitely a shame he's gone.

[garyfouroaks]

DB's exile was emblematic of how estranged Lambert had become to the reality of our goalscoring woes.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Yet he wouldn't have solved them. The issue was creating chances.

[Monty]

How would Sherwood have been able to bring him in? Up front with Benteke in a 4-4-2? That system leaves you with enough gaps already, without having a player up front doing nothing but wait for the ball to come to him eight yards out.

[Drummond]

Why on earth would we? He's a busted flush that's scored a couple of goals in the league below. He's lazy, offers nothing else to the team and isn't worth it.

He was worth buying at the time though.

[peter w]

As we cannot recall him (due to someone at Villa Villa Park not thinking out of the box) this thread is completely pointless.

Nobody has a lower opinion of the competence of our board at the moment than me, but this isn't their foul.

Any loan longer then 28 days cannot have a recall option. S'in the FA rules, innit.

I was about to mention this - it is quite common to see loans of a month because of this rule but I'm not sure how old the rule has been in place for, but it's a good rule. You can't have a player loaned out - potentially to another team in your division - who scores left right and centre against your rivals for someone else, and then you take them back for yourself.

[dekko]

I'll be glad when he's off our books because then we can stop going round and round with this endless debate.

Some people think that as he's scoring goals then there should be a place for him in the team that famously cannot score goals.  Fair enough.

To this I would reply that its a lot easier to score goals for (arguably) the best team in a weaker league than it is for one of the poorer teams in a tougher league.  Also, we can't create chances - how is Bent going to help with chance creation?

[joe_c]

If Bent was still up to the job he'd still have the job. It's another case of the longer someone is out of the first team the better they become in many people's imagination.

[Villa in Denmark]

As we cannot recall him (due to someone at Villa Villa Park not thinking out of the box) this thread is completely pointless.

Nobody has a lower opinion of the competence of our board at the moment than me, but this isn't their foul.

Any loan longer then 28 days cannot have a recall option. S'in the FA rules, innit.

Will you stop letting the facts get in the way of a good whinge.

We've only had this debate about 5 times already.  If the message hasn't got through by now, it's not going to.

[pauliewalnuts]

If Bent was still up to the job he'd still have the job. It's another case of the longer someone is out of the first team the better they become in many people's imagination.

I feel sorry for Bent. It's not like he's particularly done much wrong, but the way the game has evolved in the last few years has marginalised him.

I am glad he's doing OK at Derby County, but there has been ample proof of his inability to offer much in the top flight these days.

He just does one thing, which he does very well, but it's not a thing many PL clubs will pay the price (in terms of the rest of the team) for these days.

[Gregorys Boy]

If I could I would recall him.  If we can get the likes of Gil, Sinclair, Bacuna making things happen then he might have had a few chances, but either way its going to be touch and go whether we stay up or not.

[Toronto Villa]

He lost all motivation with us it also appeared suggested by his weight ballooning up. He looked simply awful on his last outing, like looking forward 10 years as he rolls out for a local Sunday league team or charity game. Glad he's doing well, but it's his level now. He'd be quickly nullified in the PL by much better and quicker defenders.

[dave shelley]

Savage got that right...rubbish!