Bent for Sale
New Charlton manager Alan Pardew has announced that top striker Darren Bent is for sale to the highest bidder. This effectively ends the issue of Charlton's survival in the Premiership, but it provokes another question - does anyone else want him? Leeds has already solved it's striking problem in the shape of Scandinavian skyscraper Tore Andre Flo, but what about the rest of you lot?
posted by gatorbob @ 10:18 AM
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Not us for sure. He's too pricey as cover and probably too "English" for Dave's lot.
I reckon if they can afford it, West Ham could do worse. If not, Spurs probably.
YOU ARE LAST ONE TO COMMENT ON BE ENGLISH, YOU GOONER!!!!!
I don't want him.
Newcastle maybe?
I'm thinking he's too English for any of the top clubs. Newcastle seem to have found the goals lately, Spurs have a wealth of strikers and will probably ship Robbie Keane (to Leeds please!) in the January window. I reckon Villa could use a striker - they've been drawing a lot of games and rely too heavily on Angel for goals.
English as in direct. If you were as faithful a reader as a piss-artist, you might know about the theory that the English game developed strikers who use power and running rather than tricky technique because of the pitch conditions in the English winter. You might also know that the first coaches were English military men who valued effort over technique.
Bent's exceptional in a direct system which Yernited don't play. Or for that matter do Arsenal. But West Ham and Tottenham do a lot of searching from deep midfield or the back and that's where Bent's found joy when there has been joy to find.
I thought of West Ham who need a consistant net rattler and who with their failed Argentine experiment might go for someone with an English/British passport. I thought of Tottenham because the guys that they have aren't good enough. Not Defoe, not Mido, and Berbatov is likely to fall off the pace as soon as Premiership defenders get to see more of him. And not Keane because his career trajectory is downwards from here strictly because of age.
Time and time again David, you comment like you've never watched football before, let alone played it.
Please have the salt and pepper shakers out handy, Kathy. Dave might need the the offside rule explained next, and by his own admission, pointing him towards the printed rules of the game isn't going to work.
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