Darren Bent

[Rupstoh]

Eh? Puts in the mileage? Is that (a) what we want? (b) even true?

Top scorer mate. It's the goals that count, I tell thee.

 

[Real_madyidd]

Top scorer mate. It's the goals that count, I tell thee.

But we scored very few this season. Defoe is in my opinion a massive step up from Bent.

 

[nickchrissi]

Top scorer mate. It's the goals that count, I tell thee.

I don't agree with that. For every goal he scores, he gives the ball away up top far too often which puts the team under pressure and loses a goalscoring opportunity at the same time.

Granted he knows where the goal is, but his all round play is diabolical.

 

[3Dnata]

Just seen Bruce on SSN he looks rather fed up and said something like he thought a deal had put together done 2 or 3 times. He didn't use the word agreed.
Well Steve if you've got money people can demand that you pay the going rate.

 

[nicdic]

Top scorer in a team that underperformed for chunks of the season. Wasn't first choice, and has always had the fans on his back regardless of always producing. That's why I feel sorry for him.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

meh, far better players have had far worse treatment. Kanoute got booed as he was scoring a hatrick.

 

[Mullers]

Bent has been treated like crap and unfairly I think, but that was just plain dumb to create a twitter account and so those things. I honestly believed that it it was someone impersonating him.

 

[double0]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

 

[punky]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

Excellent post. Agree 100%

 

[Wsussexspur]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

100% agree. :clap::clap::clap:

 

[tony0379]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

word for word agree with ya mate

 

[nickchrissi]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

That's the reason Levy is a millionaire who owns a football club and you're just a supporter.

Just think what 1.5m-2m is actually worth and what it could potentially get you. Not just in football, but in life.

 

[PT]

During the last window there was some vitriolic wording coming out of Sunderland's boardroom and their then Manager, concerning our interest in signing Kenwyn Jones.

There was enough smoke to suggest that our interest was genuine and that Jones' head was turned. It was Sunderland's perogative though, to place a fee so outlandish for his services, that we got priced out of acquiring him then..he went on to sign a new contract.

So it swings both ways Mr Bruce.

If Jones has a market value in excess of our bid, then don't complain when your bid fails to reack our acceptance.

 

[kcmei]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/91995/Stoke-go-for-broke-over-Bent/

STOKE GO FOR BROKE OVER BENT

Didnt know they had so much money

 

[AngerManagement]

Bent and Beattie the B&B.

The Star is hardly the most reputable source though

 

[torquay spur]

During the last window there was some vitriolic wording coming out of Sunderland's boardroom and their then Manager, concerning our interest in signing Kenwyn Jones.

There was enough smoke to suggest that our interest was genuine and that Jones' head was turned. It was Sunderland's perogative though, to place a fee so outlandish for his services, that we got priced out of acquiring him then..he went on to sign a new contract.

So it swings both ways Mr Bruce.

If Jones has a market value in excess of our bid, then don't complain when your bid fails to reack our acceptance.

agree with this, think this has a lot to do with why this has not gone through yet and we seem to be standing our ground.

 

[Kendall]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

Excellent post. I don't think Bent was attempting to be malicious, I think his frustration got the better of him and it's understandable, he's not been treated well throughout this saga.

 

[Spurs_Q8]

TBH I have sympathy for Darren Bent. It was not his fault the club paid £16.5M remembering Wet Spam were willing to match the fee and pay him better wages and he still chose to come to Spurs. His goal scoring record has been good during his period at the club, his also generally been a model professional IMO when his been on the bench and around the club.

Personally I think Bent was totally shown up in front of his team mate when ordered off the plane, only for Levy to then squabble over 1.5M-2M difference in our vaulation to Sunderlands....(suppose business is business, but one should remember manners at times over money)

Its all good Levy being business like but he should also remember the word Class.

yes it is not his fault, no one said that, but it is up to the club if we decided to recoup all of that. What's wrong with that ? Didn't Charlton set £18m as asking price before West ham £17m offer ? Charlton priced him out, Bent was good and i think him to decide to join us instead of doubled wages, but it is clubs issues, we want to force Sunderland to pay as much as we can, as Charlton did !

as for the plane story, which we don't know the real story, but he can go public or twit about it and i wouldn't fault him, but saying '' i don't want Hull or Stoke, I want Sunderland ''... it is up to him to decided where he would but he needs to be patient, it is business matters, he is professional.

 

[Dr Know]

I think him being a twitt on twitter is only going to help us because right now I think hes burned his bridges with Spurs so it won't matter to Bent where he goes. So if Stoke, Hull or even Newcastle make a bid for him Bruce will know that he just wants out so will go to who ever bids the most.
I can see Sunderland upping the offer to Levy's valuation as most if not all of their targets have been lost so Bent may be their only hope of signing a good striker

 

[jurgen]

I'm not even overly bothered about Bent running his mouth off on twitter - its no more malicious than agents and players giving stories to the media to try and force a move through, in fact it seems to stem more from frustration than anything else. However - its our prerogative to sell him for as much as we can and I certainly wouldn't expect Levy to take less money just to get Bent off to somewhere he's more happy playing - obviously if deals hinge on this move and eventually we will clearly reach a tipping point as the window end nears. Sunderland are loaded and clearly enticing him with better wages than he would get elsewhere (and the prospect of a decent chance of staying up) but with their financial position I think the ball should remain in their court, we have four good strikers now.