Bent turns down West Ham

Kevin mk 2 wrote:

Suzie Quatro wrote:

Messiah wrote:18 Million and people argue with Wenger for not buying british talents.

When Lennon was available for 1.25 million pounds and Carrick was available for 2.75 million, Wenger wasn't interested. Same with Lescott. Same with Defoe. Same with...

Wenger doesn't buy British players because he's Cr@p with them, plain and simple. Never been able to get the best out of them. He's only really effective with French and West African players. Bit of a limitation if you ask me...

We cant be expected to buy every young british talent ffs. Only one club can sign each player, therefore, the chances of that club being Arsenal are low.

The chances of that club being Arsenal are zero, because Wenger is Cr@p with British players (and he knows it and knows he's wasting the club's money bringing in players he won't be able to work with). My only problem with this is Wenger blaming it on transfer fees when numerous top young British players have been available for more than affordable fees in recent years. The truth is that, for whatever reason, British players stagnate under Wenger. Walcott is merely the latest in a long line.

Also, we were strongly linked with Carrick and it was only at the last minute we decided not to buy him.

Preferring instead to buy yet another foreign teenager who isn't as good as everyone makes out...

Defoe isn't even Arsenal quality, and we would be lucky to recoup the fee that we would have paid.

He's a significantly better goalscorer than Adebayor. Hell, he's a better out and out striker than Van Persie. Easily good enough and would fit into your team well as he's quick and technically decent (basically the only two things Wenger seems to care about). But yes, you would be lucky to recoup the fee you would have paid because, like so many before him, Defoe would have gone to Arsenal, stagnated under Wenger, barely played a game and then been blamed for it when he was quietly shipped on for 1/5 of the price.

This long line that you refer to, enlighten me please, Jeffers was proved to be Cr@p. As for the others, stagnate is totally the wrong word, Bently's development continued until he wanted first team football every week, sometihng which we could not offer him as he was not and is not Arsenal quality. Same with Upson. Pennant's demise was of his own doing.
Maybe Cesc isnt as good as everyone makes out, but he's still better than Carrick. Pretty simple right?
Van persie had a better goalscoring record than Defoe, despite not being an out and out striker. Proves my point really, that he isn't good enough for a place in the Arsenal football. Adebayor is a poor finisher but provides us with another aspect, something which defoe would not.
Besides, you would never dream of criticising Pool or Man utd for not sigining a player that was clearly not the required standard...only Arsenal. Agendas, maybe?
As has been unequicocally shown, Defoe isnt the top two srikers for Spurs, who finished fifth, so of course he would stagnate at Arsenal as he wouldnt get a game, the same way he isnt showing all his true potential at spurs.
Yet i'm still waiting for the tirade against Martin Jol, after all, how many English players have Spurs flogged on for a cut price?

spurs buying Bent just wouldn't make sense. Keane and Berbatov have struck up a great artnership so bringing in a striker for £18m just wouldn't make any sense!

Liverpool could do with Bent though

Tweedle wrote:spurs buying Bent just wouldn't make sense. Keane and Berbatov have struck up a great artnership so bringing in a striker for £18m just wouldn't make any sense!

My thoughts entirely, him in the starting 11 would actually make for a weaker Spurs.

Kevin mk 2 wrote:
Besides, you would never dream of criticising Pool or Man utd for not sigining a player that was clearly not the required standard...only Arsenal. Agendas, maybe?

So it's an agenda to have a preference for some clubs over others? Yeah, let's all just have a relativistic, last man attitude of liking all clubs equally...

Only the other day I was saying that Fergie must be kicking himself that he didn't get Berbatov last year when he was available at 11 million. It's true, I rarely criticise Liverpool for anything but that's because I think Benitez is clearly a man who knows what he's doing. And, unlike the other top four managers, he's not a sore loser. He's been to more European cup finals than either Ferguson or Wenger in three seasons than they've managed in 20 and 20 years, respectively. This is despite having no proper left winger (Kewell only fit for five games a season, Riise and Aurelio are fullbacks, Gonzalez is a wing-back), a suicidally out of form backup keeper, no obvious striking partnership and a somewhat egomaniacal captain. And despite his racial handicap, he's got a lot more out of Pennant that ol' Arsene ever did. Hell, Steve Bruce got more out of Pennant than Wenger.

Don't be ridiculous. I'm gonna die in, what, fifty years? We haven't got the time for this Cr@p.

DD wrote:[size=18][b]

"We were so close to signing Darren and thought everything was in place to conclude what would have been the biggest transfer in West Ham's history.

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Biggest? I guess so, best, hell no. Di Canio one of the best move's I've seen.

Charlton are reported on Skysports saying that they won't let Bent go for less than £17m.

Hopefully this stops us signing him