Ollie Watkins

[Louzie0]

I've just watched Henry Winter state on Sky that Utd wouldn't pay over the odds for Watkins as he only has a year left on his contract. Which actually runs until 2028. They haven't got a fecking clue.

Yes I saw that. I might tweet him in a bit.

I just read that as ‘Henry Winkler’ and thought that I hadn’t realised ‘the Fonz’ was so interested in this year’s transfer market, but that it fitted with increasing numbers of American owners 😎

[eamonn]

Getting 'nam flashbacks to summer '05 (?) on here when Mazrim was extolling the virtues of Yakubu on a basis daily. All we had to do was feed the yak on a consistent basis and we'd be laughing never mind the dross of McCann, Bakke et al tasked with providing him.... the event, we got Baros, didn't we....

[Monty]

Mazrim always believed we were one goalscorer away from Eldorado. He treated the arrival of Bent like a gift from on high.

[N'ZMAV]

Mazrim always believed we were one goalscorer away from Eldorado. He treated the arrival of Bent like a gift from on high.

then Lambert came in and destroyed Bent.

[brontebilly]

Mazrim always believed we were one goalscorer away from Eldorado. He treated the arrival of Bent like a gift from on high.

then Lambert came in and destroyed Bent.

By signing and picking Benteke?

[aj2k77]

Darren Bent was a 1 in 2 mythical goalscorer in his first couple of seasons with us. Smirker would love him. He did fuck all anywhere else on the pitch and contributed jack shit so I don't need to try and pad his stats with assists because he didn't have any.

[LeeB]

Mazrim always believed we were one goalscorer away from Eldorado. He treated the arrival of Bent like a gift from on high.

then Lambert came in and destroyed Bent.

By signing and picking Benteke?

I remember being at Norwich for the League Cup quarter final, Bent had started and been pretty poor and we were a goal down. He came off injured and Benteke came on, terrorised them and we won 4-1.

That was pretty much the end of Bent, Benteke follwoed it up by marmalising the Liverpool back line in the next game.

[Monty]

Quite a big thing for how I watch football was realising that wherever Bent scored more goals his team scored fewer overall. I have a lot of love for the oldschool goalhanger (Montella, van Nistelrooy), but Bent was an analogue player in a digital world really.

[PeterWithesShin]

The injury at Wigan destroyed Bent, not Lambert.

[London Villan]

Ings was one of the last of that type of striker.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Still convinced Cameron Archer would have had a very good career if 4-4-2 was still in vogue. Jermaine Defoe type ability, but one up front doesn't suit him.

[Dave]

He still is having a very good career. He's probably in the top 0.001% of footballers his age and will likely retire from football a multi-millionaire.

[PeterWithesShin]

Big season coming up for him, if he can't get into form back in the second tier you wonder what's next for him.

[Dave]

Big season coming up for him, if he can't get into form back in the second tier you wonder what's next for him.

My money would be on him having a very decent season in the Championship and he plays out the next five years scoring between ten and twenty goals a season for various teams aiming for promotion and probably never playing in the Premier League again.

Which would be a fine way to make a living.

[eamonn]

Mazrim always believed we were one goalscorer away from Eldorado. He treated the arrival of Bent like a gift from on high.

then Lambert came in and destroyed Bent.

He could never destroy big Maz though. He left H&V and the Villa, of his own accord.