- Nov 26, 2004
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True - but accounting deals with income as well. A gross figure can be misleading, but a net spend reduced by our outgoings is more indicative of the total progression of the club.
It's blinkered to just focus on his fee. The reason for it was an inflated market (7/8 million for Mido??!?), he's English and a striker. And a bloody good one at that.
And as SS57 said, it's planned out over years with add-ons all over the place.
It's like people yelling and screaming about Dawson and Reid costing us £8m - when in fact they cost us £1m each up front. We easily made that back on Reidy, and Dawson at a maximum of £4m? Snip.
Look at the price we paid for Jenas - English players (and those with a cap or two - unlike Lennon who was an unknown quantity to most) - they go for more money, it's just the trend. The money we got for Carrick was outrageous too.
And. To be perfectly honest, if West Ham had got him, how many of you would have been saying things like: "we never push the boat out for players", "we never put our hands in our pockets" and "Levy is a tight **** - spend our Carrick money".
So you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't really, with some.
Bent hasn't been rubbish so far, in fact he's had better games than Berbatov has this year. He offers something different to ShiftAndShoot and Keano. And actually plays on the last man. You've seen with the goals he's scored that he's a predator - and given a stretch of games he'll show that. You don't score the number of Premiership goals in that poor a team [Charlton] for no reason.
Torres is class - but comparing him isn't ridiculous. Bent's a proven Prem goalscorer - Torres isn't. Yet.
I don't believe that Bent has had any more impact in the matches he has played than say Helder Postiga. In fact the way he fails to convert 1 on 1 situations with the keeper reminds me of our former Portuguese hope. The miss against the Scummers at 1-2 with 5 minutes left was the ultimate.
Too right you can't compare Bent with Torres. One is class. The other is a journeyman pro. Do I need to say which is which ?
15-16m was a complete waste of money. Bent along with Kaboul are symbols of our season thus far.Limited ability, no confidence. I bet if you asked Ramos who he would have preferred , Kanoute or Bent , he wouldn't have to think too hard.