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Marcus Bent to Wigan......

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  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,704
    Not least because, if I recall correctly, Moyes paid nothing for him. I think Leicester had released him.
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    Should have been completed yesterday & reason why he was taken off H/T as did not want one of his second half hamstring strains messing the deal up. Think Faye may also be leaving before end of window.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Mail says £1M, Sun says initial £500k - so possibly £500k now, £500k if they stay up - good deal to get a big earner of our books - a shame really since I think he would do well this season, but he is probably on over £20k per week (I think when he signed he became our biggest earner!).

    The Mail also refers to us as an East End club !!!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    Moyes paid Leicester £450,000 for Marcus and sold him to Charlton 18months later.
    Still a tidy profit.

    Without checking, I believe he'd scored 7 times as a lone target man in his first season at Everton,
    but only once as a squad player the next season before he was sold on to us.
  • PassItToLeaburn
    PassItToLeaburn Posts: 1,457
    Brilliant! Please let this happen. I don't care how much we get for him, just be glad to see the back of him (which would be shrugging no doubt).

    If Faye could go as well and we get a couple of decent defenders in then I'd be as happy as larry - happier still if they're followed through the in-door by Earnshaw.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    http://www.addickted.net/newsitem.php?id=549
    Did he storm out of the Valley on Saturday as Addickted says?
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,800
    Nope, cause I saw him in the car park about 30 minutes after the game, smiling and signing autographs
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,704
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Moyes paid Leicester £450,000 for Marcus and sold him to Charlton 18months later.
    Still a tidy profit.[/quote]

    You're right Oggy. Cheers.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    Wasn't Bent also injured when we bought him?

    Very Odd.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    If it was Redknapp Or Allardyce, rather than Curbs, buying him - everyone would have been rather suspicious to say the least!
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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    [cite]Posted By: falconwood_1[/cite]Wasn't Bent also injured when we bought him?

    Very Odd.

    I don't think so. He scored on his debut at Stamford Beach a few days later and then played in the next game.
    So he must have been with us a couple of weeks before his back & hamstrings kicked in.

    But maybe he has a bit of 'history' with his war wounds?
  • Heath Hero
    Heath Hero Posts: 1,520
    I noted that he was nowhere to be seen on Tuesday night.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,240
    When we first signed him I was not impressed but after watching him at Chelsea away scoring a very well taken goal and for a few games after that he looked like striking up a decent partnership with Darren Bent, but then the hamstring/back problems kicked in and he's not done anything since to endear himself to me. Shame really because Curbs signed him for the right reasons. Bloody hard working, a right handful to mark and big and strong. Typical foil striker, which is what we needed to support Darren at the time.

    At least we're getting some cash for him.

    How's about that for a deadly strike force? Heskey and Marcus!!
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited August 2007
    Wigan have just signed Sparta Rotterdam striker Rachid Bouaouzan :
    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_2695084,00.html
    Not sure if they are still interested in MB.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    [cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]Wigan have just signed Sparta Rotterdam striker Rachid Bouaouzan :
    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_2695084,00.html
    Not sure if they are still interested in MB.

    Although they are supposedly selling Folan to Hull and Camara to Derby
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    and interested in Vassell
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2007/08/30/vassell-in-latics-switch-89520-19708488/
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Curbs, not unreasonably given his success at Everton, saw Marcus as a like for like replacement for an ageing Bartlett and paid the market rate.

    It has subsequently been shown that Marcus is a poor man's Bartlett.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    The market rate was more like half a mill, we made Everton very happy.
  • PassItToLeaburn
    PassItToLeaburn Posts: 1,457
    Come on Len, even you've got to admit Curbs it wrong when signing Bent! (Not Darren - he got that right).
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    [cite]Posted By: PassItToLeaburn[/cite]Come on Len, even you've got to admit Curbs it wrong when signing Bent! (Not Darren - he got that right).

    Yes with the benefit of hindsight he did get it wrong no question.

    I can see why he bought him though and what his thinking was as I said above.
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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Taken together I suppose the Bent deals were good business
    (A pity we hadn't got Dazza the year before though!)
  • PassItToLeaburn
    PassItToLeaburn Posts: 1,457
    I guess I could see his thinking but I think most of us at the time thought that at best he'd grossly overpaid for his man (and at worst signed the wrong one altogether!).
  • Paddy7
    Paddy7 Posts: 1,663
    Please don't let that waste of a shirt screw up the deal by asking for silly wages. (I know he's been marginally better thise season but the damage is done)
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=478800&in_page_id=1779
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    The Marcus Bent deal will be concluded by friday.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,517
    Well that's when the transfer window closes, Badger, so I would hope so!
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    He's up at wigan as we speak,deal should be done tonight and announced friday.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,517
    Everything crossed!!
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Done deal,has been at wigan all day,trust me.
  • Stoke_addick
    Stoke_addick Posts: 182
    Season long loan

    http://www.wiganlatics.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home/

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