Daniel Bentley - The Ongoing Transfer Saga

[rlb999]

Please don't get me wrong,Bentley is a highly promising YOUNG keeper who should continue to improve but either you've missed an awful lot of Southend games early on in your 40 years or you've badly cricked your neck turning your back on our goal when Mervyn Cawston made his 242 appearances.Obviously you also missed the immaculate (admittedly short) loan spells of John Burridge and Adam Federici.

Here here! Not knocking Dan in any way - he's a good prospect - but he's not the best we've seen at the hall. I'd add Simon Royce to those mentioned above.

 

[Evening Echo]

Southend United manager Phil Brown confirms third bid from QPR for Daniel Bentley, bu

SOUTHEND United manager Phil Brown has confirmed Queens Park Rangers have tabled a third for Blues’ goalkeeper Daniel Bentley.

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[Csboy]

Please don't get me wrong,Bentley is a highly promising YOUNG keeper who should continue to improve but either you've missed an awful lot of Southend games early on in your 40 years or you've badly cricked your neck turning your back on our goal when Mervyn Cawston made his 242 appearances.Obviously you also missed the immaculate (admittedly short) loan spells of John Burridge and Adam Federici.

I can assure you I have seen a lot of games in 40 years and in MY opinion he is the best goalkeeper in the clubs history. Not sure how you can compare a brief loan spell of John Burridge (I saw all his home games for us) with a goalkeeper who has come through the ranks and breaks Mervyn Cawston clean sheet record (again I saw a lot of Mervyn 242 games for us including a lot of his howlers) and plays a huge part in us getting promoted. Clearly you must have missed a lot of games from last season if your bizarre comments are anything to go by.

 

[gpd]

I can assure you I have seen a lot of games in 40 years and in MY opinion he is the best goalkeeper in the clubs history. Not sure how you can compare a brief loan spell of John Burridge (I saw all his home games for us) with a goalkeeper who has come through the ranks and breaks Mervyn Cawston clean sheet record (again I saw a lot of Mervyn 242 games for us including a lot of his howlers) and plays a huge part in us getting promoted. Clearly you must have missed a lot of games from last season if your bizarre comments are anything to go by.

Agree.....plus...he's one of our own, which adds to the sense of pride we can have as his career develops.

 

[Zeuss]

I can assure you I have seen a lot of games in 40 years and in MY opinion he is the best goalkeeper in the clubs history. Not sure how you can compare a brief loan spell of John Burridge (I saw all his home games for us) with a goalkeeper who has come through the ranks and breaks Mervyn Cawston clean sheet record (again I saw a lot of Mervyn 242 games for us including a lot of his howlers) and plays a huge part in us getting promoted. Clearly you must have missed a lot of games from last season if your bizarre comments are anything to go by.

NO ! You are wrong again!Last season I travelled to a lot of away games and missed only one at home-it was my mother's 100th birthday.
Drawing silly conclusions by counting clean sheets is an admittedly common but totally pointless procedure.There is no way that clean sheets are all about the goalkeeper.Anyone who understands the game knows that the WHOLE TEAM,not even just the whole defence can achieve clean sheets.A moderate keeper could have a long string of clean sheets thanks to the performance of the players in front of him. Also ,compared to the miserly present-day goals tallies,goals were flying in right,left and centre 30 odd years ago.

 

[Firestorm]

Mervs clean sheets were in consecutive home games and, tbh have always associated that run as the team not conceding at home.
Dans were not consecutive home games for the team, we conceded in his absence, which says to me it was less about the team and more about the keeper than the Smith team clean sheet run.

 

[leeblue]

CP just tweeted we have turned down 1.25 million

 

[manor15]

 

[Austin the Shrimper]

Week after week Dan Bentley makes point blank saves that ultimately get us points. You must have seen this in all the games you have seen

 

[Shrimper]

Good. £1.5m and I think we would accept though.

 

[rlb999]

Week after week Dan Bentley makes point blank saves that ultimately get us points. You must have seen this in all the games you have seen

I don't think anyone is disputing that Bentley is an asset.

 

[NZamba Legend]

QPR cheapskates. You want quality you have to pay for it. Personally think that we are the bigger club anyway.

 

[mattitouk]

After the previous failed bids, I would have thought they would bid higher than 1.5m

All in all though, im pleased with the outcome.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

If they want Daniel so bad, they have to pay for him.

 

[Ricey]

Rumours doing the rounds that QPR want Alex Smithies for £1.5 million.

 

[HudsonNo1]

1.25m pretty insulting given the rate that young English talent sells for normally.

 

[RHB]

If QPR really want him they will be back. With Adrian getting sent off today for the Hammers, I wonder whether they will pay some attention Daniel's way. For the moment he is still our man and I don't think he looked out of salts today in any way.

 

[HudsonNo1]

If QPR really want him they will be back. With Adrian getting sent off today for the Hammers, I wonder whether they will pay some attention Daniel's way. For the moment he is still our man and I don't think he looked out of salts today in any way.

west ham are after green grande qpr's interest in bentley

 

[cerbera45]

QPR cheapskates. You want quality you have to pay for it. Personally think that we are the bigger club anyway.

considering they pocketed £3.5 million selling Alex McCarthy (age 25).

 

[Ricey]

Problem solved!!!