Benteke 'Wowed' By Fans Support

Im a big fan of Big Bentekkers, he islike our new younger Carew but lasts for 90 minutes lol I really believe he can take us onto the next level over the next few years withsome help from creative midfielder added in January onwards just to help create him more chances, but yeah he is a good lad and its nice to read he is enjoying us as we him!!!

He is good - but if we sell DB and CB gets injured we're *****ed unless we buy in another good forward with scoring credentials in January, which will cost, so we could end up selling Bent to cash in all of £5-6m. Which is why I think its a risk to sell Bent this season - we could sell him next summer still for reasonable money if he did well for the rest of this season, which he NEEDS to do for his WC ambitions. So perhaps this sell decision is not nailed on yet...maybe depends on how many points we have two months or so down the road.

Mala, when is Bencht going to get the chance??? He's disproved himself enough times under this regime and hasn't been up to his normal standard since his injury!!!!!

Cos Darren Bent has never missed a chance has he.........

cb_82 you miss the point. All great strikers miss chances. Bent misses chances, Rooney misses chances (and penalties), Messi misses chances (and penalties), but Bent is proven at club and international level of consistently hitting the back of the net. He is the only player in our club with this PROVEN ability. played to his strengths he will score over 20 goals as season. At our current strike rate of 8 goals in 10 games as a team we will not score 30 goals this season. How foolish does that look when you have an asset that could get you 20 on his own???

looking a decent buy, time will tell if he fully blossoms as Voice says, but he has got in the right positions to miss them, if that makes sense, so if he fully gets up to speed, who knows?! Only 21 as well. Cautiously optimistic I think.

think yourselves lucky it's Benteke and not Heskey up front....

Listen to the Voth - two goals is no basis to reach any conclusion, except that he's doing okay.

I have high hopes for CB, but am another in total agreement with VOTH viz Bent. Madness, I tell ya, madness!

I doff my cap to you as always Glensider. You make sense when you say 'that as per usual, voth speaks a lot of sense' haha. It is important to look at our front 4 before making rash judgements. We have a proven 20 goals a season forward (Bent). We have a proven fast bloke who occasionally scores, but whose pace can influence the way a team has to defend against us (Gabi). We have two young lads from abroad who both have the potential and at the moment it is only potential, to be good players and possibly good goal scorers (CD & AW). We are hardly scoring from midfield or defence. Can you see where I am going with this? At the moment we are goal shy. We have bloke in the ranks who knows where the net is better than almost every English player on the planet. He is so good he scores simple goals and makes it look easy. If it was so easy then why is no one else doing it? Whatever PL does, he either has to show that the players we have can start hitting the net several times a game or he HAS to learn away to use DB9. Unfortunately PL is a bit like the previous manager and M'ON in that they prefer to play with a target man. DB9 isn't a target man. If you hit long balls at him, expect him to win headers on the half way line etc then you are wasting his natural talents. DB9 likes the ball short and to feet. He then has the ability to lay it off to midfield or wide men and then he just goes and hides in the box. He must be hiding because you never know where he is until he then appears on the end of a move by sticking the ball in the net. And as a final point I can see the likeness of Keith Leonard and Benteke GS, but I think Benteke has more pace and power, but a similar style in how he fits into the team ethos.

Cant disagree with most of what Voice says either Glensider but Bentke strikes me more as a Tony Hateley sort. He used to put himself about but miss the occasional sitter as well,but very early days. For me Bent is an excellent striker providing we play to his strengths and for that we need a clever and creative midfielder to give him the chances.