BENT NOT FOR SALE SAY ADDICKS

zocoss SG

Charlton chief executive Peter Varney has insisted Darren Bent will not be sold in the January transfer window.

The 22-year-old striker, who has scored six of the Addicks' nine Premiership goals this season, has been linked with a move away from The Valley, possibly to Old Trafford.

But Varney told the South London Press: "Darren signed a new, improved four-year deal in the summer and we have no intention of selling him.

"He's a key part of our side and of our hopes of staying up.

"There have been no enquiries from Manchester United or anyone else for that matter."

suckthumb.com SG

i would rather Man Utd go for someone more proven then a player whom we have to gamble on, no offences to fans of Bent, but seriously he is not capable of holding on to a 1st 11 place in Man Utd (or at least not now) and if he dun why would we need him? think how would he be compared with players like Ronney or Saha?(our currently 1st 11 strikers) IMHO, he is at most on par to Saha (and thats already given him alot of credit) but might not have the potential to progress further to surpass Saha by alot, also SAF is probably going to retire soon maybe even against his will hence to get someone more proven and ready to jump into the 1st 11 while pushing Saha into reserves will certainly makes Man Utd a better team then they're currently is probably more important then to buy someone for the future, there used to be times when the world is fill with super good strikers but these days they seems to have flaten alot.. players like Totti, Owen, Fowler, Ronaldo, Raul, the Juv forward that knocks Roberto Baggio off his starting place and lots of others... but these days super strikers are far and few hence the more SAF should invest wisely, its either he get the right guy and bring Man Utd further forward or he'll run the risk of being sack even thou he is probably the most sucessful Manager in EPL History...

Just in my humble opinion!!!!! lets agreed to disagreed

lpx88 SG

Exactly.It’s like the purchase of Smith.When Utd bought Smith it’s obvious that despite being a key member of leeds united he will only be in the Man Utd first11 on a rotation basis

suckthumb.com SG

quite agreed that Smith will not be able to hold down a 1st 11 place as far as striker dept is concern but guess SAF was trying to convert him into Roy Keane kinda player.. super unforgiving, tireless and willing to die for Man Utd on the field.. but guess he is not up to the task thou.. SAF have beed getting quite a couple of crappy players over the recent years but sure hope he is able to make good during the next transfer window..

iceFatboy SG

well, when smith came, he was the one who was putting the goals in the back of the net. do rem that.

Bent to me, is like a frog in a well, unless he comes to bigger clubs, play with better quality players, we can't really scope his potentials. and he is only 22, I would expect bigger things for him if he comes to MUFC. Rem, he is a 20 goals scorer in EPL.

marcteng SG

bent will never command a regular striking berth at man u, just like alan smith.
he can only be sub, never a regular striker like saha now or RVN in the past Mr. Green

better get david villa or F Torres, or adriano, robinho, fred

iceFatboy SG

friend, we are not in CM, we need hard USD$ to buy.
and Torres, is 25M, untested in EPL.

Bent is less than 8M, and proven in EPL.

red_amoeba SG

as stated above, i agree that Darren Bent's potential is not fully realised yet - simply because he is in the wrong team. If you don't have the correct team players to feed you the ball, its simply a waste. And we all remembered last season when he was a prolific scorer for Charlton and ppl then was calling for him to be included in the England squad.

Bent is one player where his potential may not be discovered because he is not given the opportunity or the environment he is in is not condusive. Saha, before he went to Man U was languishing in Fulham, no doubt he score goals for them (and Fulham having better players than Charlton - due in part to their rich owner). After going over to man u, he shone. Despite that, he was once down the pecking order behind RVN and Rooney. I felt his breakthrough to the first team is down to more RVN losing his form towards end of last season. Come Jan, should SAF signs a new striker, saha could find himself back to the benches again.

And credit to Alan Smith, last season (or season before last), when Man U was down on strikers, Alan Smith was the one banging in the goals. And prior to his horror injury, SAF wanted to craft him into keane's mould, to be aggressive (Alan is aggressive already to begin with, look at the amount of cards he has collected). I still believe Alan deserves to stay in Man U - his predicament today is due to his terrible injury. He can play in the midfielder role - something like Scholes.

Moreover, Darren Bent has proven that he is good, just that he lacks the proper arena to show his talent. I see no harm signing him, he is not going to be in the first 11 for sure, he can back them up, and give him two to three years, you never know. Besides, he has premiership experience, he is not CL tied. This will be a good buy.

suckthumb.com SG

yup..remembered that he did score quite a couple of goals during the start of the season..which season i can't remember but put it this way.. (without saying who can do what the other can't) if for you to choose, would you want to have Smith or RVN as your front man going into an important game?

agreed that Bent might have lots of potential yet to be uncovered but my take is that SAF might not have the time to see him mature into someone special and since he is supposed on his last couple of season (IMO) and the fact that Man Utd does have a pretty decent chance of taking away the league champion title from Chelsea, he will need someone even more proven then what Bent is..

Othello_Red SG

Wasn't the latest striker to be linked to United Jermain Defoe?

Seriously, if given the chance, Bent can make it to be a top class striker. True, there may not be the time, but if SAF does get him, and he's thrown into the first team thru a lack of strikers, he might just perform beyond expectations.

As for Smith, i do believe that he's under-rated. He's played well wherever he's been asked to play, and while he does have the qualities to be a good midfielder in the mould of Keano, the very reason he even started in that role was because of a midfielder crisis. And he's done pretty well there to me. So lets give him some credit. He's unselfish, and willing to die for the team.

iceFatboy SG

frankly, I believe we need a team player. someone who is committed and most importantly can work with the gaffer.

RVN is no less committed than Smith. He wanted to show his loyalty as SAF did during his injury at holland. But somehow he doesn't click with SAF.So end of story.

RVN has quality all over, but in this modern game, you do need extras. Why, Saha is doing well, he did more things than RVN.