Bentley's Ego Strikes Again

He just can't get over the fact that he wasn't good enough to play regularly here at the time. It must be painful for him to see how the current crop of young Arsenal players are getting the chance to shine, and in his time here only Ashley Cnut grabbed the opportunity to establish himself. Most of his behaviour and statements are a product of this long-term frustration. And with Modric, Dos Santos, Lennon, Jenas, etc. in the sp*rs midfield, he's in no way guaranteed to play in the first 11.

he is still better then theo wally no matter what

Who said he has no talent? I can't see that quote anywhere .... just that his head has reached melonous proportions. If it weren't for the size of his gob none of the Arsenal fans would give a sh** that he joined Spurs. He never achieved anything with Arsenal so he's not really that important to us.

A footballer with a massive ego and inflated sense of his own importance? I don't believe it.

dont belive everthing ye read take it with a pinch of salt...jus like with adey an he transfer, an dont take the bait

i dont see how bentley is better than walcott - theo plays for a top team and bentley doesnt

u call pennantt talent ill say no more

thats exactly how much no 303 sfa an u never answered my q why was eboue playin inseated of wally wallcott

hahahahb funniest thing i heard in a long time, hes young so what if hes young enough hes good enough, an eboue in spur team ahead of lennon, most arse fans wanted eboue out of that position an wallcott playin, forget past look at now, who cares at what age they are an how good he was then look at now.... kid. i nealry fell off my chair reading that comment an most arse fans will agree with me

123..are u thick enough to be claiming u know more about developing a young player such as Walcott than Arsene Wenger? Look how far backwards Lennon has gone in ur team due to the pressure you idiots put on him.

and bentley is a w@nk€r who regularly sang anti spurs songs around highbury...if he is so good why is he behind an ancient England player who plys his trade in the MLS? No doubt the spuds will shoot their loads if he runs round the lane pointing to the back of his shirt screaming "that's who I am" like he did last year for Blackburn........w@nk€r.

Whatever Spuds do, they shoudl take care not to upset him. You won't like him when he gets upset :-)

Yes Phartman, but the first article was mocking Spurs for paying a ridiculous amount of money for Bentley of which Arsenal will recieve almost half!! If anything, we should be thanking him for that one ... lmao!

Well the money in Arsene Wenger hands is a lot more useful to use a than David Bentley playing his best!

A very funny article. Almost withour exception, every player returning to their former clubs get verbal abuse from the home fans so Bentley is simply stating the obvious as a recognisable former player returning especially as there clearly is bad blood between the two. He left for £4m and when he joined Spurs, Arsenal receive 40% of the profit - not the overall fee I believe which is therefore £4,4m. Wenger must very much rate Bentley as to not have asked for such a high percentage. Bentley pulled out of the U21 Championship with the encouragement of his club and manager Mark Hughes. How many times have Arsenal fans abused international football because of the negative impact it has on your players when the return to club football? Pot calling the kettle black. As it was Bentley only asked to move from Blackburn after they let Hughes sign with Manchester City. Hughes was the manager who had signed him and developed him into today's player. I wonder if Arsenal allowed Wenger to join Barcelona or Real Madrid, how long it would take for the likes of Fabregas and co to start asking to move themselves?

Almost correct except Bentley asked for the move way before Hughes left. Are you trying to tell us that David Bentley isnt an arrogant c@ck who thinks he is better than his talent has achieved thus far in his career?

Yep he runs like a penguin with a burnt @rse but at least he has pace.

so you guys dont like players with egos.............adybyebye, gallas, ian wright, muppets, at least bentley wont need a shrink after joining us, like sol campbell needed after seeing waht a bunch of muppets he was working for

yep thats right achilles we won the mickey mouse trophy, i wish we could win as much as you guys have recently, you also ran muppet

come on gooners... Spuds is the best place for him, especially when he is starting to be this deluded... he'll fit right in!

Well seing as you can't speak from experience, you have no idea what you're talking about. The European nights are about as exciting as it comes. However using your analogy, that sounds rather like Spurs in the premier league

123 answer this....what year were sp*rs (wait for it)........last in the top half of the table?

Yes Achillies we won th CC and you won, what was it, F All. Rocky, does hsitory show that Newcastle qualified for the CL for a few seasons or that theyve won nothing? Id take silver every time. Im happy with where we are as a team, still not quite ready for the CL imo but showing good progress and no lack of ambition over several seasons. How can you lot be content with coming so close to winning the league and then Wenger showing his little Get Out of Jail Card by not spending and improving your team. Im convinced he doesnt like the pressure that comes with putting his balls on the block and making big signings. Youre about two players short and Wenger again persists with prooving his genius by buying a couple of unknowns again. Bloody Hell Maclaren could make a team with Fabregas in competative. Wheres the ambition? You should be talking about your latest signings not ours FFS.

The same mclaren who couldnt utilise, Ferdinand, Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney etc to finish above Russia or Croatia? doubt it... you know what he has done though...won the carling cup. Im sure if Nasri had something to say about Sp*rs you lot would be the 1st to start harping on about it...Nasri only knows sp*rs as a basketball team tho so he wouldnt.

rockey ya 4 points behind ya , but u forgot ye were 8 points up ...tut...tut

Gatch - Showing good progress? Looking at the league tables over the past three years you've been going backwards .... whilst we have been improving. And we're not content with coming so close, we just don't think its as bad as you would have us believe.

Yes Iceman I know the invicibles one of the best teams Ive seen to be fair, had it all and would dominate the game for years to come. But no Wenger decides to dismantle the entire team in under 18 months. You may argue they were past their prime but Ive said elsewhere Giggs Neville and Scholes are past their best but Fergie still uses them as key members of his squad. Wenger would of sold them in their late twenties to show how good he is at making money. COSMIC! Rocky regarding progress, I remember theFA Cup Semi, Judas last game when we had the mighty Gary Doherty up top. I have never been so gutted at the gulf that day when you had Pires, Viera Bergkamp etc. So yes I am happy at the progress ,and If you are honest you will admit you have gone backwards and Wenger great a manger though he is has some strange infatuation with making money rather than winning trophies.

Because progress to a spurs fan is ending up with less points in the league each year.

I actually don't know where he's coming from - why would he think we're going to boo him? A young player who left Arsenal to play for someone else and then to play for Spurs can never warrant enough hatred to get booed. Who does he think he is, Sol Campbell? Pat Jennings? Give me a break. I actually think Gooners are very easy to please. Look, we didn't even boo Ade too much. We only boo truly despicable but big players, e.g. Ruud van Horseface and Arjen Robben got booed today. Did we boo Aliadiere? lol Did we boo Fabrice Muamba or Seb Larsson (until he made those terrible remarks about Eduardo's injury of course)? His self-importance is just ridiculous. So yeah he'll get me to laugh, not boo.

another article about spurs or a spurs player.....getting a little embarressing fellas....glad to see we occupy your head space

i was *****ed wiv him over the england thing but this is all about now. Goonz aint bov unless he does wot he says wen we meet and i hope he does. yu no u lot are on the slide and the cockeral is startin crow again

To be fair to the Spuds though, they've been consistently among the top 4 in the Premier League since its inception........when you arrange it by the number of goals conceded.

Talking about ego - no respect for the club that developed him? It was Mark Hughes who developed him into the international calibre player that a great manager like Capello considers him to be. Bentley obviously decided his career was stagnating at Arsenal. It is very convenient for people to say he was stuck behind Bergkamp, Ljungberg and Pires. What people haven't mentioned is that in 2004, millions were also spent on similar players in Juan Antonio Reyes and Robin Van Persie. Considering the amount spent, it would have been clear to Bentley and his advisors that he had gone from being the next great thing to being much further down the list. Stay and fight for your place when its clearly not going to be a level playing field of opportunity? You don't spend millions on players unless you are going to give them a fair crack at the 1st team something Bentley never received, playing a grand total of 1 game. It is certain that he got annoyed with Wenger's criticism of him lacking patience when it was clear that Reyes and Van Persie were going to be given an earlier and bigger opportunity whilst he was going to be shoved out on loan. Abuse a player for wanting to further his career and to be ambitious but facts are facts. As for his development, when he played on loan at Norwich despite his injury I thought he was nothing special, and it was only at Blackburn did his career really kick on. Therefore credit for his development goes to Mark Hughes, and it was when Hughes left that he decided to finally up sticks. If Hughes had remained, Bentley would have renewed his contract.

gotta love chinaman's knowledge. We used to buy stars (?!) like Bergkamp (1995 was it?) and Overmars (came after a season-long injury after everyone had written him off), and now rubbish like Flamini (to Milan) and Hleb (to Barca) want out...LMAO! Just where does that put Chimbonda, Malbranque, Tainio (Sunderland), Robinson (Blackburn), Defoe (Pompey) etc.? If rubbish like Hleb and Flamini are pursued by Barca, Madrid, Juve, Milan, what does one say for the plethora of ins and outs at the 3pt Lane pursued by giants like Sunderland and Rovers?

like i say he deserves to b with sprurs aloong with donald duck and mickey mouse :-) the lad is a deluded idiot lol

KB, since that interview, he has slagged Arsenal off in several ways. why does he think that we would abuse him ? Nothing but an inflated view of himself. As gooners, we have nothing against Bentley in the manner in which he played for the club or the manner in which he left.

HY, comparing Arsenal with sp*rs is absolutelly unnecessary. It's like competing the best Benz with the best Skoda. What baffles me is how come the vast majority of your kind have not learned any lesson from the past? Why do you keep repeating the August mantra "top 4" year after year without a dose of sensibility and humbleness? As for our alleged arrogance - we were 4 pts behind in the title race last year? The level of the mass delusion at the lane is exhibited at the very moment. All I have to do is look at the titles of articles on Vital spuds and acknowledge it. Berbatov vs. Bent is the last gem. Are you serious? As for Bentley, his mouth has been full of Arsenal ever since he left, from the "lack of laughs" to"advice for Theo" and now "I know I will be abused". Who the ***** does he think he is? Van Horseface?

Phartman87 - That would be like Spuddies calling ALL Arsenal fans arrogant, now wouldn't that be silly and patheti.....oh!

LG - I was using irony to poke fun at the generalisations used by G4L and clearly yourself. I'll try to be less subtle in future

No, not really fartman! Considering we are on an Arsenal board talking about ex arsenal players and arsenals current and past levels of success, ive got another suggestion, why don;t you go and try and be "subtle" somewhere else...........As for subtle, well can you blame arsenal fans for not understanding subtle when the general levels of subtleness from your fellow fans is comparable to a house brick. Maybe you should go and discuss subtleness with the spuddie....or put ina more subtle way If you don;t like it, bugger off!

G4L ...Reyes went backwards whilst AT Arsenal.

"It may also shock you to know not everyone believes Arsenal to be the centre of the universe." Come on Phartman, we both know that's not true.

G4L ...Reyes went backwards whilst AT Arsenal. alexbaruch1993 - Being the most fouled player in the league tends to do that to you. Also being a huge mummies boy never helps!!!!!

Kendog, atleast know what you are talking about before spewing forth mate! Reyes has been sold by Athletico for being rubbish after one season with them, Real Madrid refused to take him when he left us and now he is with the mighty Benfica in the Top notch Portugese league! As for Bentley, he wouldn't get inot our line up as Wenger wouldn't want to hinder Waalcott's development or the intigration of Samir Nasri both of which have as much natural talent as Bentley but are years younger......