Darren Bent

[yanno]

Neither of them were highest goal scorers for spurs nor were either 2nd highest english goalscorer in the Prem. There's a world of difference between Bent and most other strikers that have left Spurs recently.

Wot - Berba, Defoe and Keane?

 

[lishiyo]

We only got one point from Sunderland last season, so it's not a huge deal if he scores against us. He may well score against Everton, Villa, City, probably against the top 4 too - in fact I think Sunderland could take points off the goons given their steel in midfield, which would please me immensely :grin:

I still prefer Bent over Defoe in away games, though last season it was our defense that let us down away. And I prefer the current version of Defoe over Bent atm, and Bent's not going to sit on the bench for long, so it was clear he had to go.

 

[SpurSince57]

General Football?

 

[PantherX]

Bent was put into a role he with which he was never happy....makes me wonder why the hell we got him in the first place.

A few quotes from a recent article:

“Last season, playing with either (Robbie) Keane or (Jermain) Defoe, I was mainly acting as the big man, but with Kenwyne it allows me to play a different role and one I prefer.

“He’s big and strong, he holds up the ball well and hopefully we can get a great partnership going. I think there’s far more to him than just taking a battering. He’s got a good first touch, he’s tough, he can finish with both feet, he can head the ball. Hopefully we can get many, many goals between us. My natural game is playing off the last defender.

“Probably people didn’t see the best of me when I was at Tottenham for that reason, because I was playing as a target man which isn’t really me.

Full article here:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/safc/s...ails-perfect-striking-partner-61634-24456267/

 

[teddy_sheringham_125]

Bent was put into a role he with which he was never happy....makes me wonder why the hell we got him in the first place.

A few quotes from a recent article:
Full article here:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/safc/s...ails-perfect-striking-partner-61634-24456267/

Fair enough DB, you'll always score goals and you'll always miss sitters. That didn't work for a lot of spurs fans but nevermind, let's move on.

 

[mattdefoe]

strange i do remember him and berba upfront, berba was on a different level and bent seemed clueless.

 

[yanno]

Bent was put into a role he with which he was never happy....makes me wonder why the hell we got him in the first place.

Because Levy thought Bent was a target man, which is just ridiculous.

"Sometimes in transfers you have to take opportunities when they present themselves. It was never a case, as some people are suggesting, of spending the money on a striker without being able to bring in anyone else," Levy points out.
"One of the reasons we decided to bring him [Bent] in was that we believed one of our other strikers [Jermain Defoe] may be going. OK, it didn't happen at the time. But we took the view we wanted a target man - and there are not that many.
"We knew were paying a full price but we were competing with a lot of other clubs and took a long-term view."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ts-Tottenham-chairman-Levy.html#ixzz0OeKRsHVB
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