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Darren Bent v NewcastleIt is a rare occasion when footballers play for both Newcastle United and Sunderland, but that could be the case for Darren Bent as the Magpies are reported to be interested in the Aston Villa striker.

According to the Mirror, Newcastle United are taking a close look at Darren Bent after the England international fell out with Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert.

Newcastle are said to be one of three Premier League clubs interested in buying Bent in January, along with early-season strugglers Queens Park Rangers and Liverpool.

Former Newcastle United goalkeeper Shay Given has said that Bent is ‘frustrated’ not to be involved in the Villa starting eleven and inferred that it’s not a situation that Darren will put up with for very long.

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The 28-year-old striker is coming towards the end of his second year in the West Midlands after being sold by Sunderland for a fee in the region of £20 million.

Prior to that he spent 18 months in the north-east with the Black Cats, where he scored at better than a goal every game, netting 32 times in 58 Premier League appearances.

In fact, Bent has scored regularly at every club he’s been at, and has even managed four goals for England despite being used sparingly by a variety of national managers.

Alan Pardew has managed Darren Bent before, in his two years at Charlton, and actually sold the 5ft 11in striker to Tottenham in 2007 for a fee of £16.5m.

So, Pardew and Bent know each other pretty well, but would you accept a former Sunderland player at Newcastle, and would he be a good signing for the Magpies in January?

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5 comments

  • Arfa chance says:

    No, no they do not consider move for aston villa striker.

    Strop regurgitating absolutely pointless news stories please.

    Articles like this encourage idiots at the mirror to keep writing these stories

  • roboftm says:

    utter nonsense!!! b£nt was on £40k a week at sunderland he left to go to villa for more money. newcastle wont break their wage structure for him when they already have cisse and ba. also villa will want most of the £24m they paid for him there is no way newcastle will spend more than 8 to 10m for any player. bent gets itchy feet and is driven by money i think he will leave but not to newcastle

  • astonmilan says:

    Bent is on £80k a week at Villa. no chance.

  • Peter says:

    At most he would be a squad player. He won’t be above the Ba’s. He would stop junior players getting their chance. He doesn’t want to sit on the bench. The story doesn’t come out of NUFC. He’s not tall enough, fast enough, young enough or creative enough to improve on what we already have.
    Nuff off

  • Billy says:

    Remember Sir Bobby tried to sign him from Ipswich but he didn’t want to be understudy for Shearer. I think he would be a good signing at the right price and a winner against the mackems next year at home how priceless would that be

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