Profile Darren Ashley Bent

Personal information

Full name : Darren Ashley Bent

Date of birth : 6 February 1984

Place of birth : Tooting, England

Height : 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Playing position : Striker

Current club : Aston Villa

Number : 39

Youth career :

1998 Godmanchester Rovers

1998–2001 Ipswich Town

Senior career

2001–2005 Ipswich Town

2005–2007 Charlton Athletic

2007–2009 Tottenham Hotspur

2009–2011 Sunderland

2011– Aston Villa

National team :

England U15

England U16

England U17

England U19

England U21

England

Club career

Ipswich Town

Bent progressed through Ipswich Town's youth procedure, having united the group at the age of 14 in 1998, after deeming a probable line of work in athletics. He noted a certified bond with Ipswich on 2 July 2001. He made his first assembly debut on 1 November 2001 in resistance to Helsingborgs IF in the UEFA Cup and counted his first major objective in a 4–1 League Cup overcome to Newcastle United on 27 November 2001. He counted his first FA Premier League objective on 24 April 2002 in a 1–0 win over Middlesbrough.[13] He closed the 2001–02 time of the year with seven appearances and two goals in all contests, and in addition observed his assembly Ipswich face relegation. He counted the champion in resistance to Slovan Liberec in the UEFA Cup in October 2002 and closed the 2002–03 time of the year with 18 goals. The 2003–04 time of the year closed with Bent counting 16 goals, which was chased by 19 goals in the 2004–05 time of the year, being the team's second utmost goalscorer.

Charlton Athletic

He concluded a convey to Charlton Athletic in June 2005, which was worth an first payment of £2.5 million, but would have got higher to £3 million if he made an accepted number of appearances for Charlton and for England. On the unclasping day of the 2005–06 FA Premier League time of the year, Bent counted two goals on his Charlton debut in resistance to Sunderland, and was labelled the Premier League competitor of the month for August. Bent was the utmost counting Englishman in the Premier League in the 2005–06 time of the year, with 18 goals (22 overall) which made him third utmost scorer and was bestowed Charlton Athletic's Player of the Season award. He noted an widening to his bond at Charlton in July, which signed up him until June 2010. Bent closed the 2006–07 time of the year with 13 goals in the Premier League, over closing as Charlton's apex goalscorer, but was not able to stop them from being relegated to the Championship after seven successive times of the year of Premier League football. Charlton agreed to a offer from West Ham United for him in June 2007, but Bent was not fascinated in a progress to Upton Park.

Tottenham Hotspur

He concluded a progress to Tottenham Hotspur for a group record payment of £16.5 million on 29 June 2007, which was to be payable over three years and is inclusive of add-on payments. Ipswich were authorised to 20% of Charlton's yield on Bent under a sell-on clause, which granted the group an first £2.58 million. He counted his first objective for Tottenham in a congenial correspond in resistance to Stevenage Borough in their first pre-season fixture of the 2007–08 season. Bent counted his first competent objective for Tottenham in a 4–0 household win over Derby County in August 2007. This was chased up by counting in the 6–1 win over Anorthosis Famagusta in the first around of the UEFA Cup on 20 September 2007. Bent counted his 100th line of work objective on 9 March 2008 in the adjoined time of a 4–0 governing body win over West Ham United. He in addition counted the 100th objective to be counted at White Hart Lane as long as the 2007–08 time of the year on 22 March in a 2–0 win over Portsmouth. Bent went on to count one more objective that time of the year, in resistance to Newcastle United, which he closed with 36 appearances and eight goals. He counted 12 goals for Tottenham as long as the 2008–09 pre-season. His first governing body objective of the time of the year came in resistance to Chelsea, which granted his boundary a 1–1 draw. He counted a header in the second half of Tottenham's UEFA Cup first around game in resistance to Wisła Kraków, giving the assembly a 2–1 victory. On 6 November, in a game in resistance to Dinamo Zagreb, Bent counted his first competent hat-trick for Tottenham. He chased this up with two goals in a 2–1 win in resistance to Manchester City at the City of Manchester Stadium. A omit in front of an open objective in the terminal minutes as long as a household game in resistance to Portsmouth in January 2009, which cost Tottenham two points, encouraged director Harry Redknapp to allegation "You will not ever get a better likelihood to win a correspond than that. My missus could have counted that one". Despite being Tottenham's apex goalscorer for the time of the year with 12 goals, he was rumoured to be part of a swap deal including Sunderland's Kenwyne Jones. However, on 31 January he counted two goals in the interval of two minutes in resistance to Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium after drawing close on as a second half replacement, in a correspond that ultimately closed as a 3–2 defeat. Following the revisit of Robbie Keane at Tottenham, Redknapp promised Bent of his future at the club. He closed the time of the year as Tottenham's apex goalscorer with 17 goals in all competitions.

Sunderland

Sunderland opened dialogues to indication Bent in July 2009. The deal looked like delayed and through public networking website Twitter he defendant person in accuse Daniel Levy of upsetting his progress to Sunderland, though Bent afterwards recognised clear fault, saying he carried on out of frustration. He toured to Sunderland to indication for the group after they accepted a payment with Tottenham, and after temporary a medicinal, Bent noted for Sunderland on 5 August for an first payment of £10 million added to capability supplemental payments, which could perhaps get higher to £16.5 million. He counted on his Sunderland debut, which was the only objective in a 1–0 win in resistance to Bolton, and was chased with Sunderland's unclasping objective in resistance to Chelsea in a 3–1 defeat. He counted a brace in the 4–1 win over Hull City to give himself his third and fourth goals in five games. Bent counted Sunderland's only objective in resistance to Burnley at Turf Moor, establishing the count 1–1, before suffer forfeit 3–1. He counted over in a 5–2 win in resistance to Wolverhampton Wanderers, though after the game Sunderland director Steve Bruce was left incensed at Bent's determination to give Sunderland's second retribution hit to colleague Kenwyne Jones, after the second referred "pleaded" with Bent to take the retribution in order that he could step on the count sheet. Bent then counted the unclasping objective in a 2–2 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford. He in addition counted in a 1–0 win in resistance to Liverpool on 17 October 2009 when his shot bang a seashore ball flung on to the paddock by a Liverpool buff and past baffled goalkeeper Pepe Reina into the net. Bent in addition counted in Sunderland's win 1–0 over Arsenal on 21 November 2009 when his first header rebounded back to him off Fraizer Campbell. Bent counted his first hat-trick for Sunderland in a 4–0 win over Bolton on 9 March 2010. He counted two goals, one a retribution, but missed two other retributions as they were collected by Heurelho Gomes in a 3–1 win in resistance to first group Tottenham on 3 April.[61] He closed the time of the year with 25 goals in 40 appearances in all competitions.

Bent made his first facade of the 2010–11 time of the year in the unclasping game, a 2–2 draw with Birmingham City on 14 August and opened the counting with a retribution in the 24th minute. He counted the victorious objective with blockade time retribution as Sunderland vanquish Manchester City 1–0 on 29 August. Bent counted the equaliser as long as blockade time to make Sunderland a 1–1 draw in resistance to Arsenal on 18 September. Bent then counted double in Sunderland's 2–2 draw at Liverpool.

Aston Villa

In January 2011, Bent united Aston Villa in a deal worth up to £24 million. He counted the only objective on his debut in resistance to Manchester City.

International career

Bent has exemplified England at under-15, under-16, under-17 and under-19, under-21 and senior. He made his under-16 debut in resistance to Denmark on 1 August 2000, establishing six appearances for the assembly, with his last facade drawing close in resistance to South Korea on 12 January 2001. His debut for the under-19 assembly came in resistance to Germany on 14 February 2002 and his third and terminal facade was in resistance to Lithuania on 21 April. His first facade for the under-21 assembly came in resistance to Italy on 11 February 2003, which England lost 1–0. He made 14 appearances and counted nine goals for the under-21 team. He accepted his first call up to the major England assembly for the congenial in resistance to Denmark on 17 August 2005, but did not play in the game. His England debut ultimately came on 1 March 2006, when he commenced in resistance to Uruguay at Anfield in a pre-2006 FIFA World Cup congenial match. He was not embraced in England's World Cup squad when it was advertised in May 2006.

Despite having acted for the major boundary, Bent was recalled to the under-21 squad for their October 2006 condition play-offs in resistance to Germany. Later that month, he was recalled to the major squad due to an damage to Andrew Johnson before long after the squad's announcement. He was called to the England squad for a Euro 2008 qualifier in resistance to Croatia in November 2007. He came on as an 80th minute replacement as England lost 3–2 and failed to be eligible for the tournament. He was called up to the assembly for a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier in resistance to Ukraine in March 2009 subsequent an damage to striker Carlton Cole. He made his second start for England in a 1–0 overcome to Brazil in a congenial on 14 November.

Bent was labelled in England's introductory 30-man squad for the 2010 World Cup on 11 May 2010, though he was ultimately omitted from the terminal 23-man squad on 1 June. Bent counted his first global objective in England's 3–1 away win over Switzerland in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifier on 7 September 2010.