http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...r-suffers-ankle-injury.html?ito=feeds-newsxml What else can go wrong for this bloke!
David Bentley, the worst signing in the history of Tottenham Hotspur. The guy is a fool, I can't wait for the day he is finally properly gone and I know that he isn't costing the club any money.
I rarely have a good word to say about him, but Arsene Wenger is rarely wrong with players he discards early.
On paper, he looked like a good purchase from us (was it from Blackburn?), but the man has turned out to be a complete nightmare. Cracking goal against Arsenal, though. You cannot deny him that.
i thought he was a decent signing at first. Too expensive granted, but a good player. His time at blackburn certainly suggested he had _something_. What has gone wrong? I just don't understand it.
He was a Damien Comolli signing...the only big money signings (£10m plus) that he got right were 1) Modric (everyone rated him) 2) Berbatov (ditto) the ones he got wrong 1) Bentley 2) Bent 3) Henderson 4) Downing 5) Carroll All misfits that totalled a mind numbing £105m
Well for two seasons he was regarded as one of the leagues best young talents, Heres an article suggesting he is the new David Beckham http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2329850/David-Bentley-is-David-Beckhams-natural-heir.html However lets not forget, he was at the goons and Wenger let him go for 2.75 million to Blackburn and we paid 15 million! Wenger must have been laughing his head off
Bentley was a ridiculous piece of business on our part from the start. If we were to spend £15m/£16m etc on player for the right wing, he should never have been him. Looked good at Blackburn but never a player worth £15m+. His time with us has since proved that. In a way I feel sorry for him but in a way I know it's hiw own fault, he thought he'd "made it" when he got his big money move and probably expected everything to be a piece of p*ss, the big time charlie attitude never works for an average player. In regards to Comolli's other signings, I think Bent had a rough deal. At the end of the day, he's a good striker, one of the best best finishers in the league on his day but the question needs to be asked as to why we signed him in the first place when we had Defoe, Keane and Berbatov. It just never worked out for him while he was here and that wasn't entirely his fault, though he did impress me most of the time with the chances he had on the pitch (bar the Portsmouth fiasco where even Sandra could've scored! ). He really p*ssed me off though when he ran infront of our fans at Sunderland when he scored against us, the fans weren't to blame for his bad time at Spurs and immediately made him a massive c*nt for doing that.
Re. Bentley, at the time I recall Ramos wanting a left sided wide player and Comolli came back with this... " David Bentley has signed the most lucrative deal in Tottenham's history, joining on a six-year contract. The winger will have cost Spurs £32million in transfer fees and wages by 2014 if he fulfills his potential with them. The club confirmed to the Stock Exchange this morning they have paid Blackburn £15m with a further £2m depending on appearances. It is also believed Bentley, 23, will earn £50,000-a-week. " ...and subsequently ! Re. Bent, you say its not his fault, he knew who was here when he signed, and if he thought he was better than Berb and Keano who were keeping JD out of the side, then he's got a very high and deluded opinion of himself.
I think what we need to appreciate though is we paid our joint record fee for him (crazy to be honest) and regardless of the players we already had in the position, he surely must've expected more of a chance than what he actually got if a club is willing to spend that much for his services. Make no mistake we've made some crazy decisions with money at times but I think in fairness to Bent, he never acted like a big time charlie (like Bentley) when he joined, he was just simply bought for a shed load of money only to fill the bench more ofthen than not. According to Wiki, he managed 18 goals in 60 league games, nearly a 1 in 3 ratio, I can bet that at least half of them appearances were from the subs bench. Not a bad return from the player in my opinion, it's just his price tag made it look so.
He arrived with Berb And Keano in full flow, both around the 20 mark for the season iirc. If a side that favour 442 have two strikers that gel as those 2 did, it would be rather silly to split that up. Bent would have had every opportunity in training to show his skills and ability to forge partnerships, its pretty clear to me that didn't happen, everything starts there, you don't just bung players into matches unless they're blatantly superior. Bent didn't and still does not fit that description. A similar player to JD in that he has only one way of playing effectively, Comolli failed to realise this. Hi goal record as you say reads well...so does JD's, but its all about suitability. I'm happy with a striker thats 15 a season, if they layon 15 goals for others (Ade), that has to be better for a team.
Bent was completely at fault for his time at Spurs, as he simply didn't put the work in on the pitch, as he's continued to fail to do elsewhere. He's scored goals, but has been moved on by Sunderland and dropped by a dire Villa side, simply because he doesn't do enough. He might put the ball in the net in every other game, but you still get 179 minutes of nothing in between, where you may as well be playing with 10 men. As I've said before, the only time that I felt he was fully applying himself was when Robbie Keane was focused on giving him an earful every 5 minutes. Even then he seemed to do it begrudgingly. If he worked like a Heskey or Doyle, then he'd be an excellent player. As it is, he's a passenger that gets a very respectable number of goals, at the expense of his side's overall position.
Wouldn't really say he was moved on by Sunderland as if he weren't needed, Villa bid £24m for him and he made it clear he wanted to go. The thing with Bent is you know what you're getting - goals. He's not a man to link the play like an Ade or Heskey etc but your nearly guaranteed to get goals in the double figure margin come the end of the season. That alone is worth a lot of money. Everyone questioned his signing, not just for the fact it was £16.5m spent but the fact we had 3 very good strikers already just made it seem a waste of money, especially when other areas needed strengthening. I think it's harsh to actually criticise Bent though out of all of our high profile flops, he got goals when he had the chance, never really moaned until the "twitter-gate" incident in which he wanted out and took a swipe at Levy and it was probably just the wrong move for all parties involved. As I said though, the celebration at the Sunderland game now makes him a c*nt and I for one am now laughing at his misfortune at Villa. He done a dirty on Sunderland in my eyes, they took a risk by paying £11m on him when he was 5th choice striker for us after Defoe, Crouch, Keane and Pav, was treated like a God while at the Mackems, scored a shed load of goals and got back into the international set up and then goes and demands a transfer when Villa came sniffing around, who in my opinion, are not a better off club than Sunderland anyway, though as we all know in this game, money talks.
one thing in Bentley's favour is he hasn,t slagged anyone off,in fact he say's he would like to get on back at Spurs.Maybe he will rediscover the form that made us buy him,while he is in Russia
Him, Jenas and Gomes I just end up loaning now. No one ever bids for a permanent transfer so I loan 'em out with a "future fee" inserted in the hope of the club offering that come the end of the season... Needless to say I've not had much luck there either.
Yeah, I credit him for saying that, even admitted that a lot of his misfortune with us was his own fault which you don't usually hear from players. Can't see him rediscovering his Blackburn form though.
It normally is, but Bent's so ineffective when he's not scoring that he actually has a negative effect on the team, bizarrely. Every side he joins is lucky to end up mid-table.
