Unfortunately for Aston Villa, the one change that current pantomime Villain, Alex McLeish, made in bringing in Darren Bent for Marc Albrighton did not pay off: in fact one word used to describe the decision was “clueless.” However, having been scrutinised earlier in the month for shopping whilst injured, as his team mates played a PL fixture, it seemed that his return was as warmly received as his absence just a few weeks earlier: surprising considering that he is Aston Villa’s top scorer this season.
However, while there may well be a wise few content with Bent – who is averaging a goal every other game for The Claret and Blues – the same wise few may well acknowledge that Bent’s prolific start at Villa, supplied by the ferocious wing play of Stewart Downing and Ashley Young, has become somewhat jaded – now only averaging one in three this season – since his former teammates moved on to bigger and better things at Liverpool and Manchester United respectively: now it might be Bent’s turn to move on up.
Martin O’Neill left Aston Villa at the dawn of last season’s Premier League campaign under situations imposed by club chairman, Randy Lerner, who insisted that O’Neill would have to sell if he wanted to buy, having seen Gareth Barry leave the season before and Milner leaving, also for Manchester City, at the time of his resignation. Now, it looks like the same policy is in place for Alex McLeish if he wishes to improve Villa’s fortunes, as they sit in 13th place having lost 2-0 at home to Swansea, who recorded their first away win of the season.
One man that could fund such a mid-season revamp, for the team that is looking a shadow of the side Martin O’Neill led to three successive top-six finishes in the Barclays Premier League, is Darren Bent. Bent, who urged his team to build on their New Years Eve victory, “It was a massive result to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge – not many teams will do that this season – so we can take a lot of confidence from that going into the game against Swansea,” failed to recognise that Chelsea haven’t lost at home as frequently as they have this season since the days of Ranieri and failed to take any confidence on to the pitch, not recording a shot until the 90th minute, having spent the game committing fouls: 3 to be precise.
However, until Marc Albrighton took to the pitch with little over 20 minutes left and the game already lost for Villa, Bent was never going to score: the service wasn’t there and the spearhead of a Villa attack was left isolated, reminiscent of his England performance against Spain, where scraps were the only balls that Bent was going to be able to strive off of; a move to Liverpool could benefit both parties.
We the fans need to see bent in colour, i will be delited to have him join us. What ever it will take to see him in Red’s shirt pls let fmc do it, apart from suarz we lack pist
Do you actually watch football, cause if you did you’ll know that.
Liverpool do NOT need another AVERAGE, OVERATED and TOTALLY OVERPRICED british player!!!.
The money wasted, on the likes of Henderson,Adam, Downing and Carrol, is scandalous. The Scouting personnel need to be replaced, cause they ain’t got a clue.
You Liverpool scum. Leave our players alone.
I like Darren Bent but IMO he would be better suited to a team like Chelsea as they play direct football, I think it would be better if we could get back Torres, he will easily fit into Liverpool and start scoring .
Pls kk we need strenght in our mildfield and we lack pist, things are said bt not done, ever since we sold sissoko of mali we have not seen another real african in liverpoolfc shirt, what does it encourage we preach agansit recism but we are in it, a club big as liverpoolfc does not have a single black african player what does that shows that we are recist. This is time we need to do right things and be real to ourself, we need black skin in liverpoolfc now be it africa or international all we need black so that we can preach the right thing. Thanks 4rm uciano sanz