Bentley to Villa!

If we really are offered £15 million, although we don't want to be a selling club we should let him go. NO one player is bigger than any club, he has made it clear he doesn't want to stay so maybe its time he went?!?!

I thought he wanted to better himself not move to a club on the same level!

its an open market, ignore the villa/pool bentley story. You sell who you want too simple as that.

I really dont think that Villa would dream of asking another team to not chase a player. MON only wants and has only signed players that WANT to join Villa. No disrespect Merlin, Villa are slightly above your league. i have no preconseptions that we are up with the top 4 or even on par with Everton due to our lack of defense. Despite all this we finished 6th last season includeing a real bad run at one point. we have an outside chance of europe this season Via the Intertoto. and if we sign players for defense and even more up front that the great forward team we had last season then i see no reason why we cannot be on the heels of liverpool / everton this year or even better everton. im not stupid enough to think were amazing as we are not. but i do honestly believe that every player in football last season has seen the awesome improvement of villa, and if some of them players who have agreat ability picture themselves in the villa squad with some of the class we already have.... I DONT THINK THERE IS 1 PERSON THAT WOULD SAY WE WILL STILL NOT GET MUCH BETTER THIS YEAR. Barry to me is not all that great. NRC was more of a captain towards the team than him this year. so the fact he is leaving will not put people off of coming. it doesnt help attracting players with the fact that MON has hardly done anything in the last 2 years transfers. but i believe it would be a good move for Bentley. and if you are honest yourself i dont think you would doubt that we will get better with good signings. just as you will get better if you do. Good luck next season, UTV

There's no way this is true.

Im a Villa fan,if I were a Blackburn fan I would be a little peeved if Bentley left to join Villa.But your article is based on reports and nothing else.If Villa have bid for him were perfectly entitled to and Blackburn are entitled to reject that bid.I dont think there can be any accusations of us trying to unsettle the player.Wait till Tom Jones or Gerrard starts mouthing off and Liverpool over a straight swap of Pennant for him,then you'll be outraged.Hope Ince works out for yez I think he's a good choice.

well done thedvdkid, my god some villa fans are worse than the spuds, one good season and they are creaming their togs, and before the rest of ya get on my back i do realise the majority are level headed enough to admit that in the current climate this is a sideways step for bentley and you can dress it up with UEFA cup football or whatever but this is the first time in how long that Villa have qualified for Europe?

Lennon, Ghaly and £7m? Seriously? Lazy journalism at its very best

Get yourself to Villa Park DB. A club very much on the up, playing in front of 40,000 every home game. You know it makes sense.

I sense some jealosy Kendog I think you put that article up just to have a go at the Villa.

No offense to Spurs and Villa, as both clubs have the potential to get to the Champions League, should one of the top 4 have a disaster of a season, though after all Everton and Blackburn could claim the same! All this talk about Villa being a bigger club than Rovers and Bents getting into the England team more with them, well is just ****e!! Im not a great O'Neill fan but he has built a good team there but on a limited budget we are not that far behind, league wise and if Bentley cannot see that then im sorry but **** him!! If he doesnt go to one of the top 4 clubs, who from all the in-action dont seem too interested, then he's a money grabbing get who i dont want in the club. Just look at the likes of Duff, Neill etc who left for better things after all,Bentley has got a way to go b4 he can claim to be the next Beckham and i think the papers have talked him into being a better player than he is at present ( he will be given the rite leadership ) but to say u want to play Champions League and then have Spurs and Villa the only teams after u, then sorry but u may as well stay at Rovers as we have as much chance in getting and winning the UEFA Cup as any of those 2! Blackburn may be a smaller club in terms of attendence but I do believe that Bentley would not be the player with the potentail he has without the faith that was shown by us to a player that was going no where quick in the Gunners reserves, i personally do not believe a move to Villa or Spurs will benefit him ( especailly Spurs with his Arsenal connections, will the fans take to him ) as they cannot at the min offer him anything more than Blackburn can, ie they have not qualified for the Champions League for 1 let alone a number of seasons

Can you guys not see the irony... O'neill doesn't want to sell Barry, Barry wants to go, claiming he has reject moves for Barry etc. But he's happy to make moves on a player that also wants to leave (Bentley) when the board have said that no one will be leaving and we don't need to sell

Why this silly bickering between Villa and Rovers fans? As said earlier Villa are entitled to make a bid, and Rovers entitled to refuse it. The situation is totally different to the Gareth Barry scenario, At no time have Villa tried to unsettle and approach the player through the press. Villa and Blackburn are very similar on the playing front, but one big advantage we do have is our fan base. This is NOT being detrimental to Blackburn at all, who do not have the same catchment area as Villa, but playing in front of 40,000 every week does appeal to players. I actually think a move to Villa may well suit the player. Sideways, maybe, BUT I believe Villa were the club Cappello watched more than any other (due to our English backbone) and MON has a lot of money at his disposal to try and get us to the next level. I'm not sure Blackburn will have that financial muscle. Please no more silly slagging each others club, because Blackburn is definitely the best away day of the season!

Hey guys, whats with all the bickering? fair enough dvdkid is a t0ss3r but us and Villa fans have always got on well. Bentley wants to leave, of that we all know... bids will arrive and it is up to us to accept them. Villa have done nothing wrong, if they want him, they have to bid more, simple as. Good luck for the new season Villa.

Point taken... even most spurs fans don't want to act like spurs fans!

Yeah as Tottenham are clearly arrogant. Small minority, so don't accuse all us YIDS with the same brush. We have many Villa fans coming over our site saying how great and big they are. If my memory serves me right, Villa are in the Intertoto Cup. So they are not in europe, yet.

Well in 5 days time we'll see for sure...

All football fans are the same, some good and some bad. There are about 3000 spurs fans on the vital network and because 20 gave you some stick all spurs fans are x, y and z. Doesn't add up to me but then again all Blackburn fans are idiots aren't they (sarcasm btw)

I'm sure Bentley will do what Bentley wants...! Can see him going to Villa or Spurs. He won't go to a Champion League side, unless he goes abroad. I think players transferring between between any teams that finished between 10th and 5th will be seen as a sideways step by the selling club, but a step forward by the receiving club, as all teams in that area all have a chance of beating/finishing above each other. It's a matter of the club set-up, chairman, manager, other players persuading the potential signing to go to there club. It is all down to who sells their club better...

Villa WILL be a force this season, really they should've achieved more than they have over the years but at this point in time Bents going to Villa isn't really that leap forward that he has been asking for. A Champoins League club is what he wanted, Villa and Spurs aren't this at the moment. OKAY maybe both clubs are bigger than us, but neither can offer much more (UEFA Cup football aside) than us at the moment. JUST sell to the highest bidder now I sell, he wants out lets cash in as much as we can, everyone else does!!!

Hey Real Deal talks sense - he likes Blackburn!

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