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  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 4,239
    Annoyingly, if Bent had his first season again with us in the premier league at this moment in time - he would be worth £50-80m+! 

    He would be being touted for England and foreign teams would be taking strong interest...

    yet all we got was £20m and he barely played for England ever! 
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 18,080
    sammy391 said:
    Annoyingly, if Bent had his first season again with us in the premier league at this moment in time - he would be worth £50-80m+! 

    He would be being touted for England and foreign teams would be taking strong interest...

    yet all we got was £20m and he barely played for England ever! 
    It was a good fee at the time. The fact we a) got relegated with him in the team and b) got relegated again 2 seasons later in a bit of a state financially, despite having parachute payments, the fee for Bent and plus decent fees from the sales of Diawara, Reid, and Bougherra really highlights the absolute piss poor management of the club from almost the moment Curbs walked out the door. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Impressive in that video how quickly, and frequently, Chrissy Powell got to the scene of the goal celebrations.
  • LTKapal
    LTKapal Posts: 1,410
    He was on Ben Fosters Podcast recently, spoke a bit about us and also how Curbishley tried to sign him at west ham before he joined spurs, they even offered him better money.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 67,452
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 24,870
    Of the ex-Charlton-players-become-pundits bingo card, I doubt many of us would have put Darren Bent down on it when he was playing for us
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,496
    Saw the fantasy football show last night and when he popped up found it hilarious as i hadn't seen his interview for Sunderland when he mistakenly said great win for Charlton, quite a funny little mock up too. What i would give even for a league one Darren Bent, someone who can score and trouble defenders
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,441
    edited September 2022
    The Fantasy Football League reboot isn’t as terrible as I feared it would be

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  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 10,296
    Absolute legend - 

    He's hugely fond of us still. 


  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,602
    mascot88 said:
    Absolute legend - 

    He's hugely fond of us still. 


    he is pretty good on Talksport.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,076
    edited September 1
    His first season with us he was almost Ian Wright mk2.

    The long ball for him to run on to, then goal :)

    He was a joy to watch.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 6,574
    One of the three best in my time supporting Charlton with Clive and Hunty and he did it at a higher level than their best seasons.  Pity the wheels came off in 05/06 as him, Rommedahl and Thomas up front were briefly electric .  
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 24,301
    ross1 said:
    Should have been selected for England instead of that Arsenal reject that did not get picked during tournament
    I was playing snooker with a mate who supports Spurs - we were talking about whether it would be Bent or Defoe, or whether both might go as Owen/Rooney weren't fully fit.

    Then saw the announcement on the TV in the bar - never would have guessed the answer was going to be neither, we're taking a 17 year old who hasn't even played top flight football yet, because he's a bit quick.

    Mad.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 48,628
    edited September 1
    ross1 said:
    Should have been selected for England instead of that Arsenal reject that did not get picked during tournament
    As we have discovered, England was a clique in those days. It's a shame as Bent had attributes that would have been good against teams without too much pace in defence which was quite a lot of international sides at the time. With us we sought to get him in behind playing off the shoulder. Players like Gerrard played balls out wide where he had to battle and it wasn't his game. Probably an indicator why the so called golden generation amounted to nothing. Give Southgate credit, he put all that crap to bed. 
  • siblers
    siblers Posts: 2,389
    wmcf123 said:
    One of the three best in my time supporting Charlton with Clive and Hunty and he did it at a higher level than their best seasons.  Pity the wheels came off in 05/06 as him, Rommedahl and Thomas up front were briefly electric .  
    Imagine if he didn't get injured. We'd have probably stayed up
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 2,043
    Dazza? FFS can’t you do better than that?

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  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,977
    R0TW said:
    Dazza? FFS can’t you do better than that?
    I apologise to Mr Darren Ashley Bent for the over familiarity caused by cooking dinner for my family, I should have taken more time to put respect on his name.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,977
    I also couldn't remember if he was a Daren or a Darren and the name police scares me.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,864
    North Lower Neil said:
    ross1 said:
    Should have been selected for England instead of that Arsenal reject that did not get picked during tournament
    I was playing snooker with a mate who supports Spurs - we were talking about whether it would be Bent or Defoe, or whether both might go as Owen/Rooney weren't fully fit.

    Then saw the announcement on the TV in the bar - never would have guessed the answer was going to be neither, we're taking a 17 year old who hasn't even played top flight football yet, because he's a bit quick.

    Mad.
    And then didn’t use him. 
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 8,119
    cfgs said:
    I also couldn't remember if he was a Daren or a Darren and the name police scares me.
    It’s Darron Bentonkele

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