Bent Makes his Move

It's all transfer talk today, with the big news being Darrent Bent signing for Tottenham in a 16.5 million pound deal. I talked about this transfer yesterday so there's not much more to say. It's a lot of money but Bent is a young English goalscorer with a proven ability in the Premiership, and Tottenham obviously have the money to spend, so it looks like good negotiations all round. It does look like Defoe will now be on his way, with Man Utd and Villa interested. Personally I would rather have Bent over Defoe but it is a hard decision. What tips it for me is that Bent could play off a target man or as a target man, he could play up front on his own and still get goals, whereas Defoe is great playing off another striker but wouldn't be so good on his own. I do hope that Defoe gets regular first team football wherever he heads to next, as he does have the talent to be a great striker, he just needs the confidence that goes with playing games every week, and when he gets that, he will start to score a truckload of goals.

Robert Earnshaw has completed his move to Derby for 3.5 million pounds, which is a very astute signing by Billy Davies. Earnshaw is a striker who has never really had a chance to shine in the premiership before, and I do think he'll have a good season if he's playing regularly. I watched the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final against Southampton and was not impressed by them, they will have to improve a lot to stay up in the Premiership and I just can't see them surviving this season.

The Copa America saw Argentina start off their campaign against the USA last night with a 4-1 win to the Argies. Tevez was amongst the scorers, as was Eddie Johnson for USA, who is a decent striker to watch out for in the future, definitely has potential to play for a big European club. In the other game, Paraguay destroyed Colombia 5-0 with Roque Santa Cruz getting a hat-trick, a harsh scoreline on the Colombians who had a penalty saved during the game.

Not much else to report today, but there does seem to be a definite build-up in the number of transfers going through, and I think that the next week will see a few big-name transfers going through...or so we hope.

Toodlepip.