Bentley Will Cost You £17 Million

Yes I am aware there is a Spurs gag in there... don't be precious boys.

Mikey is a p****!!!

oh you lot have fans???? Dont believe the price is to far fetched just think mikey is a p****!!

and so are you Boom Boom

I don't blame Rovers for naming an inflated price because the player is under contract and Blackburn don't want to sell. Very similar situation with Gareth Barry at Villa. IMO Barry is at present a better player than Bentley BUT Bentley is quite a few years younger.I don't think the 'top four' will pay that much for Bentley, because apparently, Van der Vart is available at £15m. VdV would not move to anyone outside the top four, so I reckon Villa, Newcastle, Tottenham, Everton and possibily Man City would be keen on signing Bentley. IF MON is seriously interested I think Villa should offer Blackburn what they want straight away as it will effectively only be a straight swop financially for Barry. Let's see then how serious the other clubs are. I would like him on the right side of Villa's midfield with Ashley Young on the left. good balance.

pretty true Dan Mac, but £17 mil for Bentley? ridiculous, i think hes a great player, but if Berba was to go for £25mil, then Bentley should be half that, at the most!!

we won't end up paying that thouh... I said in the spurs one that he is actually worth it... you can't compare players to other players because their value is relative to a clubs posiotion as well as ability... they don't want to sell, that pushes his value up... also his worth to us is high... the way I see it at the moment we have two very intelligent forwards, making great runs that will now have the service of Modric through the middle and Dos Santos/Bale down the left... down the right we havbe Hutton putting balls in from deep for berba to get onto... but if we had an intelligent player on the right like Bentley, with his vision and ability to pick a pass/cross the ball that opens up a whole new dimension in the attack which I believe is worth £17m... it's not that Bentley as a person is necessarily worth it, but that peice of the jigsaw and what he would create within our team could well be worth it... it would give us another outlet for goals which compliments our current set up... that to me is invaluable... for the first time I can remember we will have 11 players playing in their favourite positions doing what they do best.. for the first time, the jigsaw will fit, I won't have to break the little bits off the side to pretend it's finished... If that makes any sense at all... I'm really excited... I actually don't care how much we pay anyway to be honest... if we've got the money to spend on him and they think we can afford it, I'll just be happy we got him...

hahah BEEFY... I'm sure that was just a dig and you know that isn't true...

beefy is a mazda, beefy is a mazda, la la la la

yeah yeah Maji. Mikey started it!!

I'm not a Blackburn fan - more a supporter of the beautiful game played as it should be; hence my dislike to Tottenham. There's no rocket science here lads: I like to be entertained and Spurs have never entertained me in 30 years of watching all the football I can. I think if you ever realised there was life beyond the M25 you would realise that my view is one shared by the rest of the country. If you've only ever followed Tottingham then you're not to know that what you have to endure is exceddinly tedious because you have nothing to compare it to. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not having a dig just to wind you guys up and I think you've spent sufficent money to stay up this next season. Think of it more of an education than an insult. If one thing happens from me being on here it will be that it will open your eyes to a whole world out there - a world of exciting football.

dont try doing a Villa Barry saga fellas, one good season doesnt worry £17m

krfeskivilla i think if you sign bentley you will have an absolutely awesome midfield! If you get Sidwell as well you could play Young, Reo-Coker, Sidwell and Bentley, that feeding Gabby and Carew... lookin a bit tastey next year villa, lookin 4ward 2 playin u :) COYS

2 good seasons in full I think, he did win player of the year 2 seasons ago leelindsay matey. And OMG. Calm down spursboy... it was a rye sarcastic comment. Grow up. If you dont like it go on your own board... we know we are a small club, we know we dont have loads of fans, we know we know. We over achieve and we love it. Sorry if I offended anyone with the Spurs comment BTW... didnt mean it that way.

and who could forget the lesson in football given to our beloved neighbours? 5-1 but that must have bored you as well. I imagine watching Keane and Berbatov, two boring footballers who have no skill or entertainment value play their boring on-orchestrated football must send you to sleep BEEFY

and Blackburn arent a small club, theyre just not a huge club. I look at Blackburn as being at the same level as Spurs, Everton, V

yorkshireyid - I live in Yorkshire too, dont tarnish the great county with your stupid posts. Nice one BTW spurs boy. Exil - I was merely pointing out what other teams fans would say and defending us straight away!!! lol

Beefy...I think you're confusing us with Arsenal fans with regard to not looking outside the M25, I probably watch as much if not more football than yourself.. I think you're a bit of a dick and I think you'll find behind Man U and Arsenal we're one of the most exciting teams in the premiership... more goals scored... and unfortunately conceded than most... high scoring games... under Jol we played some great attacking football... and yeah... ok in the late 90's when to be hnonest we had 5 yrs of real dross it wasn't quite exciting stuff.. but the 80's were good and now we're starting to play some good stuff again... I actually think it's you who's blinkered... I'm quite objective, I don't suffer from a blind loyalty... you're not a blackburn fan - fair enough... I see you never actually said who you do support...

Exil... however much I like Blackburn, they're not even close to - Villa - Everton - Spurs. At this current time they are a half decent side playing good football and one of our current equals and challengers... but talking size of club... we've achieved a lot more and have a lot more fans...

I have respect for all clubs and all supporters (even some gooners and hammers... to an extent) but I dont think the gap is as big as you all make out it is. The very top clubs are miles in front then you have the second teir clubs like us, Villa, Everton, Blackburn - then theres the ones under that Pompey, Newcastle, Man City etc; I honestly dont see a big gap between us and blackburn. We have a bigger support and more turnover yeah, but blackburn are just as, if not more successful over the last 15 years than us!

gotta love these spuds, starting to rate them worse then the gooners, lets just do the samba!!!!

spuds take a read and remember back in time http://www.blackburn.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=114834

Lets pay the money and show the plop how to conduct business. Like the funny Mikey ;-)

Well, well, well some good debate and banter here, but also some typical "we're bigger and better than you stuff", what happens on the pitch does the talking doesn't it, and over the past two or three seasons not much seperates Rovers and all the other "so called" bigger clubs, the types that Bents might go to.

Of course with any new signings (And deffently with a number of them joining) you have to expect a certain amount of time to gel together. I think Ramos has tried to reduce the risk of this happening by firstly getting the team into tip top condition by doing conditioning training in spain before taking part in some very competitive friendlies. Also their will be a risk with him finaly installing his new tactics and styles of play he hopes to import but from this point all players will be learnign from the same point and we have some very competant players which should be able to cope. I think we proved last season how a bad start effects your season, remember that Ramos took over while we were in the relagation zone after a truely awful start. lol i dont think we need to prove the point for a second time. So, what will you do with the money if you sign bentley or who else are you hoping to bring in?

Beefy lobbing hand grenades again?????

All those goals - for a premier league point more than us... wow!

Bentley is the best attacking available english player at the moment, he has done it in the premiership and will be the right sided midfielder for England for years to come! (I think Ashley Young should be the left sided player btw) the one thing I would say that might make his value only 5m is Morten Gamst Pedersen had a storming season the one before and Benni McCarthy too and they (relatively speaking) flopped in the last season just played else dare I say that Blackburn could have finished above Everton. You're only as good as your last season and Spurs finished mid table after a full season... fine they won a league cup and finally have something to put in their new trophy cabinet, but I wouldnt suddenly say they are any better than Everton under Moyes, Villa under MON, I think Hughes might make a good charge for City too I think any club seriously considering to buy him SHOULD pay 17m its the going rate, Barry I rate at 18m for the simple reason that he is versatile and plays numerous positions: Centre Back, Left Back, Left mid, Defensive Mid and a more balanced midfield role.

True HDM.... talk is talk, but we should concentrate on walking the walk.