Agree fully. What was that stat that came out around the time he moved to Villa? Something like over the last 5 years he's only behind Rooney and Drogba in premier league goals, and there were only a couple of goals or so in it from memory. Something like that anyway.
Would love to have Bent here either with Van Persie in the number 10 role behind him or alongside him in a 2 up front formation. He's just a proper natuarl goal scorer. Sure he's not likely to win the ball on the half way line and play an inch perfect through ball, or dribble down the touchline and cut inside and set someone else up etc. But I don't want my fucking centre forward starting moves on the half way line or the touch line. I want him busting his arse to get into the box to score goals and finish off moves instead of Van Persie doing something out wide, then one of our wingers or full backs pumping the ball into a penalty area containing 3 or 4 defenders and generally not a single Arsenal player.
That 1st goal he scored against us the other day, was that really a goal a "limited/mediocre/average/shit player who is the only focus of a bad team" would score? Bergkamp would have been fucking proud of that goal. That was a player who knows how to find the goal when the chance is there.
