Darren Bent video interview -- Bent talks about: The Sandra comment, the Twitter rant, the bad feelings towards Tottenham, Harry Redknapp, his frustration at the lengthy period of limbo after leaving the plane to China, being frozen out of the Spurs training ground, having to train in the park, The World Cup, Sunderland hopes for the season, Steve Bruce, Spurs experience helping him grow as a player. And more.
Obviously, it was obviously a video with Darren obviously Bent obviously being obviously bitter, obviously
yeah obviously
He was treated badly by us and could have scored a lot more for us had he been treated better but I’m glad he’s gone, I don’t want a player that doesn’t want to be here and Harry clearly didn’t like him (although Harry’s judgement of players is questionable – yeah bringing Patrick Viera to Spurs would be a great idea :/)
He will probably outscore all 4 of our strikers this season. Plenty of unintelligent Spurs fans cream over the hugely flawed Defoe and then never gave a chance to Bent who had a 1 in 2 ratio for us and scored home and away against EPL clubs top to bottom. Wish him well unless he’s playing us.
The bloke has the touch of a rapist and never had any confidence. He did have a lot of sympathy from us Tottenham fans, but after this whinging he won’t. Granted he scored a few and was our top goal scorer last season, but that’s not really surprising considering Berbatov disappeared early on, Keane went on his short term loan, Defoe didn’t join till late and it was Pav’s first season. He suits a club like Sunderland and I’m sure they’ll love him. But he didn’t suit our ideal footballing style and I’m shocked we got the amount of money we did for him.
“He did have a lot of sympathy from us Tottenham fans”
Not sure that’s true. The chanting of Defoe’s name back in January before he had re-signed for the club at the exact time Bent had to come off the pitch with an injury. The chanting of Defoe’s name whenever Bent would miss a chance. The groans of the crowd when he didn’t score but the clapping for other strikers when they made similarly bad misses (not including Bent’s terrible miss vs Pompey)
“he didn’t suit our ideal footballing style”
Our ideal football style hasn’t been played for nearly 30 years. Palacios and Crouch don’t fit our “ideal footballing style” if Harry had his way we’d have a team full of Steffen Freund’s, Micheal Brown’s and Jamie O’Hara’s just because they put a tackle in. The only player in the entire squad that fits our old style is Modric and to a lesser extent Keane and Lennon.
Defoe is a headless chicken master blaster with the football intelligence of of a Sunday League player, Pav is a bumbling lanky git with plenty of potential but seemingly a lack of motivation to match it and he couldn’t win a challenged header if it was against a toddler, Keane is bottler who would rather run away from the ball than stick a foot in or challenge for a header and Crouch is average and only leads to pumping long balls from defence. How exactly do any of those 4 fit “our ideal footballing style”
He was nowhere near the best footballer in the world but over the past 4 years he’s been one of the top scorers in the league despite being a backup player for 2 of those, yet some talk about him like he is on par with the Rasiak’s and Postiga’s while creaming over Defoe because every 10 games he scores a good goal at WHL.
Good luck to Darren Bent with his new club. However times have changed and so have mindsets, at the time of his transfer from Charlton to Spurs, it may have been the right move at the time but I still felt he was grossly overvalued particularly with his lack of premiership experience and the fact he was still quite young. Despite Darren’s success with Ipswich and Charlton, it is totally a different ball game when a player steps up to the Premiership. Furthermore, Spurs bought Berbatov for 10.2 million just a year earlier in 2006 and with all respect he is a far more gifted player than Bent hence why Fergie snapped him up. Furthermore, the management has changed twice at Spurs and he obviously did not feature in the plans of Harry Redknapp with his own vision and style of play. I don’t Darren is bitter just naturally disappointed. Quite frankly, if Darren was that good a striker right now, why has he not get snapped up by the likes of Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Aston Villa (or even Manchester City who have lots of cash at their disposal)?
Who knows, he now he has the opportunity to prove all his critics wrong.
@Joe Philips: Well said.
Get a life ‘Joe Phillips’. People who pick out quotes from other people’s posts need to calm down.
We all have our own opinions and my opinion that Bent isn’t a good Premiership player is shared by Martin Jol, Juande Ramos and Harry Redknapp. Your opinion is shared by Steve Bruce.
If you’re so despairing of our Tottenham team then go support someone else, I can’t stand all this pessimism when the season hasn’t even bloody started yet.