The new Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has revealed he is certain striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Darren-Bent-c10358 is fit and ready to go in the upcoming English Premier League season.
Bent missed out on a place in the Three Lions squad in the European Championships after missing out on the last three months of the 2011-2012 campaign. The 28-year-old underwent an ankle surgery after which he was unable to participate in the remainder of
the season.
Since then there have been many changes at Villa Park, the most important one being the departure of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Paul-c29347 Lambert has taken over and is expected to bring about changes at the club in the 2012-2013 season.
Lambert revealed he was confident Bent would go on to be the goal scoring striker for Aston Villa, something they very desperately needed. He admitted that while they would not just be relying on the Englishman to score all the goals, he had high expectations
of him.
He felt the striker’s goal scoring record at Sunderland spoke volumes of his quality. Bent transferred to Aston Villa in the winter transfer window of 2011 from the Stadium of Light for a record breaking 18 million pounds, which was expected to rise to 24
million pounds.
Lambert said while speaking to the club’s official website:
“Darren will be huge, absolutely huge. He's a goal scorer. Every team needs them.
You can't just rely on one guy to score you the goals, but his influence at the football club is huge as a result of what he has done in his football career up to now.
He had a fabulous goal scoring record at Sunderland and if you look at it, his goal scoring career here is phenomenal.”
The Villans boss was confident Bent would reproduce his fantastic form for both club and country, claiming the striker would have earned a call up for the European Championships had he been fit at that time. He revealed:
“For http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 too, he is a threat. He would have gone to the Euros no problem if he had been fit.
It is a big plus for us to have him fit.”
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