Serial cunt David Bentley is set to make Arsenal a healthy figure of around £8.5 million when he completes his £17 million transfer to Tottenham in the next two days.
Bentley has frequently spoken about his treatment whilst he was with the Gunners – the team who nurtured his talent and gave him a chance in football – and has previously advised Theo Walcott to walk out of Arsenal if he wants to become a better player.
However, although it seems David ‘has it in’ for his previous employers, the club included a large sell-on fee when he was originally sold to Blackburn in 2006, which is believed to be as much as 50%. This means half of the money Spurs will pay for the 23 year old, will immediately be passed across North London.
After coming through the Arsenal Academy, Bentley was one of the star performers in the youth setup, but with so many experienced players at the club during David’s time here, he was frozen out. Loan spells at Norwich and eventually Blackburn saw him snapped up by the Ewood Park outfit, and now the England International will be returning to London, but this time as the enemy.
It will be interesting to hear his reception when Arsenal face Tottenham at the Emirates.
Article By – J.Sanderson
One word to describe this man – cunt.
“Serial cunt David Bentley”
Lol, i like Bentley as a play but as a person i think “serial cunt” is just about the right description. He has no sense of loyalty. Walked out on Arsenal cuz he wasnt patient enough to wait for regular first team football (which he would have got in the end), refused to play for the England U21s in the last Euro U21s cuz he felt he was superior to that side and that tournament. Now hes walkin out on Blackburn and its probably only 40% due to a belief Tottenham can be a better side next season and 60% cuz he knows Tottenham will pay him a far higher wage.
But hey, Cashley Cunt got us Gallas, and David Cuntly will give us 8.5 mil. Ta very much…
“Serial Cunt”
hahaha
The best part is you just know we’re going to buy 2 players who are even better than him out of that money!
I do so hope this is accurate – I cannot tell you how funny that would be that the Spuds have handed us that much cash for a player who had the opportunity to play Champions League football in the best footballing club in the world and will end up chasing us for two or three seasons before moving on again
he is an arrogant immature boy. i cant believe he reckons england have the best team on paper
love it
C’mon as grown ups u should be more forgiving to him. For all the reasons mentioned he may be thought of badly but lets just get over it. We get lots of cash, wenger let hime go after two loan spells and he is apparently a spurs supporter.
Any money we get will be on the profit Blackburn make.
They bought him for 3 mill (max) and will sell at max 18 mill, therefore 15 mill profit.
We are reported to get 40%, which is 6 mill, based on the figures that I have provided, which are by no means accurate.
as a player*
I cnt think of any other players that have treated us like them to, Pennant was a wanker but he didnt walk out on the club or slag us off, he just never bothered to turn up to training on time. Wright is being a wanker but he loves Arsenal, even if he doesnt appear to know much about it. Vieira forced Wenger to devote weeks and weeks to coaxing him out of signing for big sides, and evetually gettin a pay rise, but he did love the club and was an Arsenal legend. Even Reyes who walked out was publicly very nice about the club after he left, ok he said we were full of ‘bad people’ before but he didnt know that was a journo, he thought it was a Madrid official, and i dnt know if he rly said that, might be a miss-quote. He even told Cashley to show some respect when he started slaging us off (maybe Cashley was the bad person?).
What a cunt.
What a Knob!! He thinks he’s David Beckham. Go luck to him.
How do the Spuds feel, taking an ex Arsenal Reject?
I Cant wait to see the reception he would recieve when the Spuds play Arsenal, but we don’t care, we’ve still pimped the lady boy and made our money off him.
“>>>>>>>>>He later admitted being depressed by the fact that he had an incredibly small cock<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<, and that he had been addicted to gambling in the early stages of his career, reaching a peak of placing 100 bets a day. He got over his problems in 2005, with the help of his girlfriend.[7]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bentley
hahahahahhaa J?
I always say that i would love to see spuds get relegate but now i really really reallly really would haha!
Seriously though the first line of the whole article is perfect! A player that hates us is now joining a team that hates us yet both (in a way) are paying us money. You just can’t make this sort of stuff up can ya :-D
loooooooooooool
Irishgunner:
Doesn’t the majority of english fotballfans, (other than realistic gooners that is), think that England have the worlds greatest national team? ;-)
PeteE – Haha.. if it’s on wikipedia.. it must be true ;)
Fuk, life couldn’t get much worse for the lad, as if it’s not bad enough having a small cock he is now joining a whiole bunch of them!!!!!
Hahahahahaha
Wenger is a clever man. We can buy Veloso.
That picture says it all really…
What has the world come to..when a cunt is worth 18 million!
Lets not get too personal in attacking Bentley. Yeah he said some bad things about Arsenal but there is no need to go too far (though no one has yet too). He is a son of Arsenal FC albeit a very bad son.
Attila – Very true, and yep i would welcome that.
Arse&Nose – Haha, his t-shirt says – The Sun. Enough said
Haha it’s a funny fact that we can buy ourselves a quality player for those 50%.
Off Topic but what is that feed thing at the side of ur website. ’84 readers.’
That is people to have subscibed by e-mail. All the articles i publish are sent to their mail box, so if they cant get to the site, they can still read the blog :).
What a ridiculous thing to say. I’ve been reading this blog for many months and you claim you are trying to be a serious reporter and then start an article like that? Bentley did what he thought was required for his career. Is that selfish? Maybe so but frankly he’s been proved right. As for the comments re: Walcott – I thought freedom of speech was allowed in this country? You dont have to agree with his sentiments but there you go. Other fans can insult, you as a person aspiring to be a reporter should be above that.
Poor show.
For the record, I’m an Arsenal fan and saw David Bentley many time for the reserves. Excellent player who left for the right reasons, but has made some mistakes. Personally, i think Wenger should swallow his pride and buy him back for £9m.
so I should do it? Technology. Wonderful thing.
PLJ- what I was trying to say but not in the same way.
Though, I doubt Blackburn will accept 17m since 50% will go back to Arsenal again.
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=News&article=494586&lid=NewsHeadline&Title=Arsenal+adds+Citro%26euml;n+flair+to+its+talented+squad
Why?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Audi would have been much better…
hahahahaha best opening line!
If Arsenal were to buy him.
PLJ, bit contradictory there, this is a blog not a newspaper article, to quote your good self i thought that freedom of speech was allowed in this country!!??!!
PLJ – So you have small cock too :D
Can you seriously see cesc or gallas turnin up in a citroen to training??!!??!!
Now that really would be a picture hahaha!
Moushin – hahahaha
Clacko have you seen the vid where Ade, Eboué are dancing behind Gallas’ Mercedes SLR McLaren?!! if you have and now picture him in Citroen Berlingo (by the way which I drive in as my temporary car :P), would be something :P
Moushin hahahahahaahaha
I think that i would pay to see that :-)
Moushin = Pathetic. Cant have an opinion that disagrees with yours eh? Not to worry, I wont use the words that you or Mr Sanderson uses because thats not the way people should communicate.
Clocko, you are quite right but if you have read the many reports that Mr Sanderson does, you will know that he aspires to be a reporter – that sort of inflammatory statement does nothing to help those aspirations.
Frankly, I dont want to see this blog degenerate to the standards of something like “le grove” and as such have ventured an opinion. Sadly, the readers are clearly unwilling to offer constructive opinions.
any news on Bishoff’s trasfer, j?
Jrgen – This cash will help pay for Bishoff’s medical treatment… ;-)
PLJ – Don’t take it too seriously we didn’t call his mom a whore, or shouted some ugly desease at him… You’re overreacting to a bit of innocent fun we’re having. Isn’t the sun shining over there, we have some great weather over here in Holland finally, I totally got out of my winter depression but you clearly haven’t :P
PLJ, your contradicting yourself.
You preach about voicing your opinion; which you have been allowed to do freely, but criticise us ‘readers’ for not offering what you deem as ‘constructive’ opinions.
Btw – Bentley IMO wouldn’t stand a chance of getting into the Arsenal first 11.
im glad were going to get a large chunk of cash from the deal but i very much doubt that the sell on fee was 50% because blackburn wouldn’t have accepted an bid of effectively only 8.5 million
To be honest i just see this as J’s release.
Making light of a situation to someone that has continuously slagged us off. When actually did he really leave for the right reasons? He was told by the gaffer that he would get more chances and that he would be a rugular in a couple of seasons. He is a player that lacked ambition. Ambition for me is striving to be the best that you can be and play at the top level, instead he opted for the easy route, then persued to slag us off and try to unsettle players because of his bitterness. Which only came from his own big head! Loyalty is something that i respect, he has none! In my opinion i would not want him in the England team because of the way that he treated the U21’S, his i need a rest attitude then goin off to play for Blackburn in a friendly simply stinks. In my view that shows a complete lack of respect for your own country. I am fairly happy that he is joining the spuds because i would like them to finish with nothing this season and not even get Europe. That would be nothing less than he deserves!
Sorry for the rant haha!
Personally, I’d like to see the papers take a tone more akin to the start of this article. I’d respect them more if they said what they really think and not what their editor scares them into writing. I know it’d never happen though.
Bentley is a cunt though. He left for what some call the right reasons – first team football – but patience would have lead him to being Bergkamp’s replacement for fucks sake! He had the talent, was being given the occasional first team football all of our youngsters are given, and was being compared favourably to the likes of Dennis and Freddie. For fucks sake, how any 19 year old could expect anything better in football at the time (at what was the best squad in the world), I’ll never know. And then to go and tell Theo he’s wasting his time setting high targets for himself. Cunt.
The crazy thing is though, for all the xenophobe talk about Wenger’s sides, the likes of Bentley and Cole could have developed into GREAT english players if they’d stayed and worked hard for their place. And their immaturaty (sp?) and petuchulance (again, sp?) was a direct indicator to show Wenger how modern English players minds work, possibly harming the chances of Muamba et al a little more. I guess in the past five years we have learnt a lot from our mistakes though as the likes of Randall, Gibbs and co. seem a lot more grounded and patient (although it is in a post-cesc/clichy/etc. landscape.)
Whats truly gutting about this is that whilst I agree with the fact that he’s a serial cunt, he’s also a very good player that I had watched in the reserves up until that goal against Boro in the first team. Even when he went to Norwich on loan, I couldnt wait for him to come back. Serial cunt but also a quality player that in all honesty should have been given more chances in the first team before he left.
I’m Wengers biggest fan and could definitely be accused of leading the AKBs of this virtual football world but really think we missed a trick on this one, supported by the fact that the season after he left, Eboue was our main winger!!!
Good money for him in total…it’s a shame that it probably wont be spent on a new player tho people.
Anyway, first time I’ve ever doomed on line but it’s a minor and I cant wait for Sat, being back at the emirates and enjoying the sunshine (fingers crossed).
Good work as always J
Paul – does he need a whole new prostetic body?!! :P
So we got £6m for him, now add on another £8.5m = £14.5m. Harry ‘Wheeler-dealer’ Redknapp, eat your heart out!
Oh and is that Bentley’s new job in the picture?
Also: People overreacting on at a zing on the internet = st00pid.
In fact, getting pissed off at anything on the internet is pretty stupid. Unless it’s like in South Park the Movie when Cartman sees how his mum uses Al Gore’s invention.
I heard heard that he actually spat at spurs fans, on a gambling trip when they we’re taking the piss out of him when he was at Arsenal! thats from a person thatt was on the bus so pretty sound source.
be interesting to hear what spuds have to say about it
Damn right hez a cunt.A Superfat serial cunt at that.Itd be funny as hell if he ended up frozen out at spurs!! Prepare ti get a thrashing when u play against us BENTley,your goina be chasing the mighty gunners for alooooong time!!!
I don’t think Bentley’s a good player. I think he’s the type that could have been, but stagnated through lack of ambition and laziness. As we have noticed, so, so many times, there is a hell of a leap from looking too good at a midtable team to looking alright for a top 4 club. Just ask Peter Crouch. Or Bellemy. Or Saha. Or Beneyoun. Or etc. etc. etc. Ha, I guess Robbie Keane’s just in a very long line of over priced fuck ups bought from the midtable.
Personally I didn’t take much notice of Bentleys anti-arsenal statements.
To me it sounded like a man who felt as if he needed to constantly justify his move away from a big club, and where there is a need to justify there is also a doubt.
Deep down I believe Bentley does look back and think what could have been at Arsenal, often what a person says is not always what they think.
I do agree to an extent Arse&Nose but also feel that if they do decide to speak out then that is their choice and they have to face the consequences. What you just said could also be applied to what Wrighty said in the Sun yesterday perhaps.
PLJ, you are trying to dictate to the blogger what you think he should write. That’s hardly advocating freedom of speech.
If you feel so strongly about it, why don’t you go and write a blog yourself.
JS is entitled to write what he pleases, and while you may be entitled to voice your disaproval, you don’t have a right to dictate what he writes on his blog.
It always seems to be the same issue with you self-righteous types, everyone should kow-tow to what you think is acceptable.
Bischoff has just joined – check AFC Website
Arse& Nose, i do agree with most of your sentiments, however using the word c*nt is far from constructive. I expected it from posters (indeed i would use it myself) but i have come to expect more from JS. My mistake, wont be made again.
Frankly, in terms of Arsenal however, Bentley is exactly what we need. When he left, we were speed merchants, Pires, Fred, Henry with Bergkamp pulling the strings. Its now crying out for someone like Bentley to supply crosses for Ade and Eduardo & Bendtner. We are missing the boat here. We are desperate for a wide player and here we have an England international at a very young age availalbe to us for around £10m (if not less cos we probably have a fixed buy-back price).
Bischoff has just joined – check AFC Website
I cant decide who is more of a cunt – Cashley or Bentley. I think the former was simply misled by his agents and his showpiece wife. Bentley on the other hand just didnt have the patience or the stomach for a fight. Like that Dolphin headed cunt we sold to Portsmouth. I mean seriously – you cant get into a Champions League Club and expect to get into first team at the first time of asking.
Bischoff has signed…….check out the club website.
we sign biscroff
Mike, he can write what he likes, i have no interest in writing a blog thank you. I am simply making the point that if he claims (which has been done in other articles) that he wants to be a serious reporter, language like that should not be used. If you all fail to see that this is the case then se be it.
This blog is not le grove or nonsense like that – it claims to be serious. Again, i have made a mistake in thinking that this was better than the others – I was wrong.
its on the arsenal website
Prashant, you have changed my perspective on Diarra, i used to think he had a bean head, like a baked bean but i like the Dolphin analogy!
amauri signed
good piece of business with bentley fee
also is the bischoff deal good business??
PLJ – David Bentley is an arrogant, self serving, egotist with nothing more than an over inflated opinion of himself and his abilities. Taking every opportunity to have a pop at the club we love and our most successful manager of all time. Excuse me for saying this, but he is a complete bellend and for him to play for Spurs is great as we can really vent at the ungrateful little toerag!
Bischoff is confirmed on arsenal.com! Anyone know anything about him??
What a great start to an article…”Serial cunt David Bentley”!!! Brilliant!! I hope he gets dogs abuse at the Emirates. Why shouldn’t he??
PLJ, calm down a bit, this is one article out of hundreds!
You saying that you will not make the mistake again about J’s blog etc is like sayin Pele was shit when you only saw him once when he was 10!
I for one am a massive fan of this blog and think that it mixes nicely the Informative pieces regarding transfers etc with also some light hearted articles.
Keep up the good work J!!!!!
BISCHOFF SIGNED http://WWW.ARSEAL.COM
We have signed bishoff
haha sorry for that :P http://www.arsenal.com
I think thats a draw
Gentlemen, whilst its been fun talking to you, one msut earn some money. Nice to have provoked a reaction – still dissapointed with the start of the article, but so be it, everybody is entitled to say and do as they please….
Have a good day all, see you hear again soon!
He signed! Amaury Bischoff joins Arsenal
bischoff signed
I am at work as we speak PLJ, you should get a job like mine, best of both worlds :-P
We signed bischoff.
PLJ don’t be dissapointed and good luck earning money. You shouldn’t take any offense of what I said to you! Good day to you too…
Cheers!
bentley oh bentley
you wernt good enough for aresenal the legendary-eeee
as we all could seeeee
now yu have gone back to the shitesst teeeeeeeeeam
belived to be theee
totenham hotspur
for your careeer i pray for theee
david bentley
lol made it up, it is kinda shit but heh, so is bentley-eeeee:o;)
Bischoff done deal
As for swearing, “sticks and stones” mate, get over it! Swearing doesn’t make something less serious. How any great films are full of swearing, books, theatre productions …….! The fact he has spent time and effort on his website and wants to be a journalist is great, to react iin the cliched “old school” way just shows that maybe times have moved on and you haven’t!?
bischoff signed
WE HAVE SIGNED BISCHOFF….ITS ON ARSENAL.COM
Can we add “Serial Cunt” to our daily lexicon? Surely we can then refer to all our hate figures in the same way. Serial Cunt Ashley Cole, Serial Cunt Teddy Sheringham, Serial Cunt Frank Lampard, Serial Cunt John Terry etc etc etc the list is endless.
GREAT STUFF J. Best start to an artcle I’ve read in years.
Wow they really snuck Bischoff through the back door…
Through the back door but one man got a sneak preview and that was J.
I do believe that he was one of the first again (Nasri) to report what was goin on!
Nice work J.
LG – As i said, I’m dissapointed with the start, I’ve come to expect more from JS over the last few months – That was all I was trying to say. I expect nothing but abuse in the comments section, thats always the case.
Theatre productions, films, etc…..they are not serious reporting that this blog claims to be..
anyway, nuff said. Enjoy the rest of your day LG…
I love Arsenal, never reports signings before their pictured with a jersey in their hands :D Pro stuff
bentleys a bum…he has ability but is too direct 4 us in my opinion….spurs r so stupid..they think there a big club just cos they got modric n some overated barca reject,dont wanna sell there best player to man utd cause their ‘rivals'(lol,lol),1 of their legends leaves for liverpool-the club he ‘loves’ and they give us 9mil of their money 4 1 of our rejects…couldnt write it!!lol
How in the world does he think he can dislodge Pires and Ljungberg at their pomp? Dumb nut. Had he waited for one or two more season he would have been Ljungberg’s replacement and have made that place his own til today.
He’s good, there’s no doubt about it.
He’s also a cunt and there’s also no doubt about it.
I will side with PLJ here. I have been dreading the news that Bentley would sign for the spuds. He is a good player that would easily get in our side. I think he is more effective than Hleb and would walk into the side ahead of Eboue. Sadly there does appear to be an attitude problem which is what most of you are truly criticizing him for, but doesn’t mean he’s a bad player. Also, some of the comments on here about Wrighty are completely unwarranted. Most of you are clearly not old enough to have seen him play week in week out when he was the only player who would ever score for us.
its definately not 50%
its probably 40% on all transfers over £3m
Actually it will be a little less than 50%.
We have a 40% sell on clause that covers any profit made from the sale (so after the 2.5mil that Blackburn paid us.)
But then there is a FIFA rule that means that a percentage of any fee must go to the clubs the player was at between the ages of 12 and 23.
Bentley was with us between ages of 13 and 22. He was at Wormley FC age 12 and Blackburn age 23.
This means that we pocket a further 4.25% of the fee, and Wormley pocket 0.25%. Blackburn gain 0.5% of any future fee (and the same applies to us and Wormley)
This gives us a total % of roughly 44.25%.
Jack Wilshere’s left foot said this on July 30, 2008 at 4:06 pm – I used to watch us under Terry neil in a half empty stadium and can appreciate what Wrighty did for us, but he’s a gobshite who doesn’t know when to shut his mouth and has basically alienated himself to almost ever gooner I know with his stupidly crass comments and especially the cracker about our beloved “rocky2 turning in his grave…..Who the fuck does this clown think he is??? Wanker!
Londongooner – the majority of footballers are idiots. You can see that from some of their interviews. They sometimes say the wrong thing and Wrighty has clearly done that. Let’s not turn against them for their stupidity. We loved them for what they did on the pitch, let’s not sour it all by what they did off it. Anelka made a mistake at a young age but can be forgiven. I can forgive most who left us, even Hleb, but the one I can never forgive is Ashley Cole, who left for 5000 a week and made a big stink about it.