Darren Bent continued his impressive pre-season scoring record with three goals against Leyton Orient last night in another 5-1 victory. Aaron Lennon and Luka Modric were also on the score sheet. Unless something major happens with us bringing in a couple of big name strikers in before the start of the season, it looks like […]
Archives for July 2008
How will ‘lick em up’ Aaron respond to Bentley’s arrival?
How would you feel if you were Aaron Lennon? The poor bloke is already five foot nothing and being compared more and more often to a hybrid of Tony Daley and Ruel Fox, now Spurs have gone and paid £17m for an ex-Arsenal player who is taller and plays in his position. Admittedly, Tottenham do […]
Bentley and transfer rumour round up
As we suspected yesterday, the Bentley deal has taken a step forward now we have seen Robbie Keane in a Liverpool shirt (yes, made me feel sick too!) The BBC earlier reported that ‘Blackburn Rovers have confirmed they are in negotiations with Tottenham over the possible sale of David Bentley’. He will be a great […]
Darren Bent in household pet murder shocker!
Ok, so Darren Bent scoring 4 times at a Championship side doesn’t do a lot to ease the pain of losing your club’s Player of the Year for 3 of the last 5 years, but it does give us a ray of hope. At Norwich last night, Bent played in a lone role with Giovanni […]
Damien Comolli to be dishonorably discharged?
There have been rumours flying around about Damien Comolli for the last week or so. The man that made Martin Jol’s job impossible is to be removed as quietly as possible once all the transfer activity is done and the season gets underway. The figure that was apparently so influential at Arsenal for seven seasons […]
Sunday paper talk
I wasn’t going to write anything today but an injury picked up last night has meant my ankle is currently a bit bigger than Jermaine Jenas‘ head meaning I’m stuck indoors so I’ll just do a quick round up of the always reliable stories in the Sunday papers. There are conflicting reports about Berbatov today. […]