NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Agree totally
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Christian Benteke
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Agree totally
I think he'll be off next year regardless mate. Although I guess we'd at least have a very small chance of keeping him if we get CL qualification....
Correct. This is why buying players in the PL are always overpriced,bar the odd exception. Premier League clubs are very wealthy, and don't really need to sell unlike clubs in Spain etc so if you want to purchase a player you're going to have to pay over the odds...
Nigeyman
Chris Armstrong
last 10 or so pages of this thread has been excellent debate/reading. proper passionate stuff and reasoned arguments....great stuff.
With Benteke he is a villa player and they can value him how they like...whether we think that's unrealistic or not doesn't matter - same applies with Bale and interest from toadface.
But yeah I love the buying a bottle of water in the desert analogy........and we defo need to pull out all the stops that is financially doable to ensure we don't miss an opportunity to break into the elite and end up in a few years in mid table looking back at what might have been.
Bale is defo the best player we have had since hoddle...... modric, Ginola, Berba, Gazza klinsmann all class but the boy Bale is just something else...........one season left of bale!!!!!!!=DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO ADD QUALITY AROUND HIM.
With Benteke he is a villa player and they can value him how they like...whether we think that's unrealistic or not doesn't matter - same applies with Bale and interest from toadface.
But yeah I love the buying a bottle of water in the desert analogy........and we defo need to pull out all the stops that is financially doable to ensure we don't miss an opportunity to break into the elite and end up in a few years in mid table looking back at what might have been.
Bale is defo the best player we have had since hoddle...... modric, Ginola, Berba, Gazza klinsmann all class but the boy Bale is just something else...........one season left of bale!!!!!!!=DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO ADD QUALITY AROUND HIM.
2bh, Bale will be off regardless of CL football next season or not if his star remains on the rise at its current rate.
You think that just because we happen to scrape into the top 4 that he'd hang around when he could be winning trophies?
I think the only thing that would convince him to stay for anything other than the short-term would be a genuine tilt at the title (i.e. still in with a shout come the business end of the season in April/May) and probably a cup win thrown into the bargain.
milo
Jack L. Jones
I don't see why, the strikers ahead of him in the England pecking order are automatic starters for their clubs.
Nigeyman
Chris Armstrong
.....................seagulls over the trailer...........
Yes, but they survived by "just" managing to score enough, the true issue is their defense is a disaster and they need to invest there heavily.
It's all about risk management, i.e. would they be better off selling a player who wants to leave quickly (for a reasonable price), investing in some defensive capability, or try to play the same cards as last season (which barely got them out alive), and pray Benteke doesn't get injured for any significant part of the season.
Again, not saying they should sell to us for 15M, but Villa does have some decisions to make, and it's not as simple as "they can name any price they want"
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
They've already strengthened, though. Jores Okore is a highly rated young defender they've brought in, as is Antonio Luna. Leandro Bacuna and Aleksandr Tonev are pacy, direct midfielders, and Helenius is a tall yet reasonably skillful forward. They've bought well, and I imagine selling Benteke wouldn't make much sense given that they've already invested in building a team around him that is more solid, more skillful and more direct than last season's was.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Couldn't a very similar argument be made about us and Bale? We had great results, but mainly thanks to his individual brilliance.
All about risk management, better off selling and investing in several good players around the pitch, or do we try to play the same cards as last season and pray Bale doesn't get injured for a significant part of the season?
I don't Villa are experiencing any immediate financial difficulties, like us they can strengthen without selling their best player and doing so might be better as it allows them to keep their best player.
They obviously can't name their price as we most likely won't pay the prices they would name if they tried that. But as long as Benteke doesn't create too many problems for them beyond his transfer request they are in a pretty strong negotiating position with 3 years left on his contract and in a solid enough financial position themselves.
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has revealed he only came across striker Christian Benteke by chance.
The Belgium forward has proved a sensation since arriving at Villa Park last summer for £7million, scoring 15 goals in a struggling side this season.
However, it was not the 22-year-old who Lambert initially wanted to watch when he headed out to Genk on a scouting mission.
Ahead of the visit of Premier League champions Emirates Marketing Project tonight, the Scot said: ‘We signed him because I thought we needed a striker like him at the club. I felt we needed a targetman so we looked around and saw Christian playing at Genk.
‘He actually played with a strike partner that we looked at beforehand. We were looking across several different leagues at people but went back to watch Christian again and things moved from there.’
Lambert admitted Benteke’s form had proved one of few highlights of the campaign so far for third-bottom, who would move out of the relegation zone if they avoid defeat against City this evening.
‘We watched him more and one of the scouts saw him playing for Belgium and we decided to take a chance. Nobody really knew too much about him before he arrived but since he has, I think his performances have been exceptional,’ added Lambert.
And Lambert made a staunch defence of his policy of blooding Villa youngsters this season, despite their lowly position and a record of just one win league win in 2013 so far.
‘You know when you bring in young players they don’t have a fear or feel the pressure as much as when they get a bit older,’ he explained.
‘I don’t have a problem playing young players at all, if you’re good enough then I’ll throw you in, everyone has to have an opportunity to perform.’
The Villa boss believes his men have been hard done by as they have plunged towards the foot of the table, exiting both cup competitions at the hands of lower-league opposition along the way.
‘I think we should have more points than we do because we played well in some games and came away with nothing. We’ve also been leading by two goals in some games but still couldn’t see it through,’ the 43-year-old insisted.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/04/paul-lambert-admits-aston-villa-came-across-striker-christian-benteke-by-chance-3524970/
unit kaboom
Kevin Dearden
I admire your dedication to this forum mate but seriously you cannot expect people to believe you have such extensive player knowledge...if you did you should be employed as a scout by now!
Why not just post "Looking on google it seems his partner was blah blah bla" Otherwise it comes across as you trying to seem more knowledgable then you are.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Well he wants to win proper trophies he wont go to Real Madrid then
richie_spur
Øyvind Leonhardsen
Couldn't we just buy him then instead of Benteke? Probably completely different players, but as I can't be arsed to look him up and don't have an encyclopaedic knowledge of minor European leagues, you would have thought our scouts could do their job. It's not as though we don't have any Belgians knocking around the place who, if they saw someone pretty good in the national setup, couldn't mention it at the club is it?
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
when did I say i've ever heard of him? I simply looked at the genk team to see who they could have been looking at and saw a player named Jelle Vossen and then posted his stats as a reason why they were probably looking at him :s
the only time i ever watche Belgian football was when Lukaku played for Anderlect
Spending 18m+ on Benteke on the back of 1 fairly good season at relegation-threatened Villa seems like a fairly big risk to me, and we've had enough of those at Spurs over recent years. I had really hoped for a striker that would give us more guile upfront, but if this deal goes through it's looking like we're going more the brute force route.