Darren Bent

[Guest neesy111]

It looks like Kinnear and Pardew were also miles apart in their valuations.

 

Won't be the only thing they are miles apart on.

[Teasy]

Hope this gives us a kick up the arse to get other deals done.

 

 

 

 

The other positive way to look at it is if we fail to sign Remy or Gomis we now don't have to worry about the possibility of Darren Bent 'strutting his stuff' at St James' next season.

[midds]

We're so small-time it's unreal. Zero ambition, zero investment, we're now 100% bottom-feeders - feeding on the scum.

 

We can't even be arsed to spend the money we generate let alone any money our owner provides to push the club forward. We're £750k in the black since the season finished 2 and a half months ago.

[Interpolic]

At least we didn't waste an entire month finding out we couldn't buy or pay him.

 

shouldn't people be happy given the amount of at best annoyance at worst outrage of the idea of signing bent on here?

 

Bent's not the issue. The club has descended into a pathetic shambles and is being run lock stock and barrel by an alcoholic lunatic with a heart condition with zero experience of the job he's employed to do.

 

[Spider Jerusalem]

The other positive way to look at it is if we fail to sign Remy or Gomis we now don't have to worry about the possibility of Darren Bent 'strutting his stuff' at St James' next season.

 

We'll just have to worry about Shola 'strutting his stuff' instead, IF his arthritic hip can last past pre-season.

[Interpolic]

We're so small-time it's unreal. Zero ambition, zero investment, we're now 100% bottom-feeders - feeding on the scum.

 

We can't even be arsed to spend the money we generate let alone any money our owner provides to push the club forward. We're £750k in the black since the season finished 2 and a half months ago.

 

But we were the biggest spenders in January, midds.  We're 5 minutes from having to sack the tea ladies here, have a bit of perspective.

[Interpolic]

Hope this gives us a kick up the arse to get other deals done.

 

 

 

 

The other positive way to look at it is if we fail to sign Remy or Gomis we now don't have to worry about the possibility of Darren Bent 'strutting his stuff' at St James' next season.

 

If this is a joke it's shit, if it's not a joke you're a mad cunt.

[TheHoob]

Hope this gives us a kick up the arse to get other deals done.

 

 

 

 

The other positive way to look at it is if we fail to sign Remy or Gomis we now don't have to worry about the possibility of Darren Bent 'strutting his stuff' at St James' next season.

 

Or Pards playing in a link up role as he's previously mentioned 

[Spider Jerusalem]

Whether he is worth it or not, I expected a bid around £5m plus £50k a week to get Bent. If we did get him on that I'd be ok with it as it's another decent striker on our books and we need them asap. £2m plus £30k a week is hilarious. May as well offer them £2.50 and a Twix on top for a our next bid.

 

 

You think our owner would give up a Twix like?

[Mike]

Deadline day this year is going to be great.

[TRon]

I'm not really sure what we are playing at here, unless it was an attempt to make Fulham look like over-spending mugs. Fine if we don't want him, out of the three targets he's the one I'd least want, but why pursue him in the first place unless it was to placate Pardew?

 

 

[TheGuv]

August tomorrow and we've signed nobody since finishing 16th last season

[Unbelievable]

We're so small-time it's unreal. Zero ambition, zero investment, we're now 100% bottom-feeders - feeding on the scum.

 

We can't even be arsed to spend the money we generate let alone any money our owner provides to push the club forward. We're £750k in the black since the season finished 2 and a half months ago.

 

By their own reporting principles, we're actually millions in the black (including wages).

[Alberto2005]

Good.

[toontownman]

We're so small-time it's unreal. Zero ambition, zero investment, we're now 100% bottom-feeders - feeding on the scum.

 

We can't even be arsed to spend the money we generate let alone any money our owner provides to push the club forward. We're £750k in the black since the season finished 2 and a half months ago.

 

It is what the club would like to call "being realistic" in its current place in the footballing world.

 

Problem is we are so bloody conservative on this side yet the board is willing to take the biggest gambles possible in appointing Kinnear and keeping Pardew.

 

Frustrating doesn't even cover it. Would love him to once take a gamble like that on the playing side and splurge. Problem is our hardball tactics usually pay off and we were let off the hook last season by other clubs being somehow worse than us. Should have been a warning.. instead Ashley obviously has a taste of the thrill that comes playing with the live explosive that is our club, that fact it might go off at any moment just drives him more.

 

[J7]

It's annoying that there is literally nobody to be questioned about the shambles. Pardew is the only spokesman the press can ask about anything and he's basically a puppet with no influence in the slightest.

[TRon]

I'm not really sure what we are playing at here, unless it was an attempt to make Fulham look like over-spending mugs. Fine if we don't want him, out of the three targets he's the one I'd least want, but why pursue him in the first place unless it was to placate Pardew?

 

We knew Fulham was in the hat for buying him. So it makes no sense to go in this low really. If nobody wanted him I can understand us working up from that starting point and getting him cheaper than what they want.

 

 

Unless the whole point was just trolling Bent for the sake of it. We have been happy to pay far more than that to players we really want here.

[thomas]

I'm not really sure what we are playing at here, unless it was an attempt to make Fulham look like over-spending mugs. Fine if we don't want him, out of the three targets he's the one I'd least want, but why pursue him in the first place unless it was to placate Pardew?

 

We knew Fulham was in the hat for buying him. So it makes no sense to go in this low really. If nobody wanted him I can understand us working up from that starting point and getting him cheaper than what they want.

 

 

Unless the whole point was just trolling Bent for the sake of it. We have been happy to pay far more than that to players we really want here.

Or trolling Pards. "We'll do our damndest to get him in, Alan."

[Guest]

We probably thought he'd be cheap with the whole situation at Villa. Like someone said, it's more to do with what we value a player (and re-sale value) than the fee itself. Last 12 months we've bid £10-12m for De Jong & Aubameyang, £7-8m for Remy, nearly £7m for Gomis...

[J7]

And lets be honest, Ashley is going to concentrate on Rangers now. He buys them and its up up up with minimal outlay. A club where millions buy their shirts. When he's exploited them for all they're worth, he'll give up on them too. As long as the shirts are flying off the shelf at maximum profit and Sports Direct are being promoted he couldn't really give a fuck.

 

Even our club shop, i don't believe for a second the club are seeing any of the money it makes. It will basically be another Sports Direct in all but name. They were bombarding me with emails trying to sell tat from the club shop. I just sent a simple reply back telling them to fuck off, and I got an email back from Sports Direct saying my comments had been noted and they would be replying to me.

[TRon]

I'm not really sure what we are playing at here, unless it was an attempt to make Fulham look like over-spending mugs. Fine if we don't want him, out of the three targets he's the one I'd least want, but why pursue him in the first place unless it was to placate Pardew?

 

We knew Fulham was in the hat for buying him. So it makes no sense to go in this low really. If nobody wanted him I can understand us working up from that starting point and getting him cheaper than what they want.

 

 

Unless the whole point was just trolling Bent for the sake of it. We have been happy to pay far more than that to players we really want here.

Or trolling Pards. "We'll do our damndest to get him in, Alan."

 

I think there's a bit of that in there tbh, and if his idea was to play him as a withdrawn striker then he probably deserves it.

[colinmk]

We probably thought he'd be cheap with the whole situation at Villa. Like someone said, it's more to do with what we value a player (and re-sale value) than the fee itself. Last 12 months we've bid £10-12m for De Jong & Aubameyang, £7-8m for Remy, nearly £7m for Gomis...

 

It's just a shame that this has fuck all to do with football really.

[TRon]

We probably thought he'd be cheap with the whole situation at Villa. Like someone said, it's more to do with what we value a player (and re-sale value) than the fee itself. Last 12 months we've bid £10-12m for De Jong & Aubameyang, £7-8m for Remy, nearly £7m for Gomis...

 

How old is Cisse...28/29? Would we agree to sell him for £3-4m since he has no resale value?

 

 

[Dokko]

I'd be worried had we paid £6m and paid near enough his current wages. I'm sure the same people who are complaining about the offer and the lack of signings would have been calling this a shit move for us a few months down the line when we can't get bent and Cisse to work together or Pardew just generally struggling to get anything out of him at all. Then you'd have an ageing player well past his best, unmotivated sitting on a fat contract seeing his days out till retirement restricting us from buying the kind of player we should in the first place.

 

For me It's like missing out on Kone, literally 1 day after he moved everyone forgot about him, this should be the same and would be had we got someone in, we haven't but we will IMO and when that happens we will all be glad we missed out on Darren fucking bent and brought in some quality we can all get behind now and in the future.

 

 

[Cajun]

We probably thought he'd be cheap with the whole situation at Villa. Like someone said, it's more to do with what we value a player (and re-sale value) than the fee itself. Last 12 months we've bid £10-12m for De Jong & Aubameyang, £7-8m for Remy, nearly £7m for Gomis...

 

How old is Cisse...28/29? Would we agree to sell him for £3-4m since he has no resale value?

 

 

 

If we made him train with the reserves and told him he had no future we may have backed ourselves into a corner.

 

This isn't a defence of our set up by the way, I have posted a couple of times recently about how I don't understand how clubs can so publicly put a player on the naughty step then demand maximum value from others who may be interested.