Tottenham Hotspur - the big bad transfer bullies - have apparently made the Charlton board really very, very angry by offering £8m for want-away hotshot Darren Bent. The Daily Mail even go so far as to say that due to this outrage, negotiations are "in danger of breaking down".Now just hold on a cotton-picking second here. Surely if this story is true it should be Spurs who should be up in arms with Charlton for expecting £15m for a relegated player who is far from an established international and who only managed 13 Premiership goals last season.
The usual suspects of West Ham, Newcastle and Liverpool are all Charlton have if they are trying to stimulate an auction. Liverpool will undoubtedly be looking for someone with a bit more class than Bent, and the player himself is unlikely to fancy another relegation scrap at the Spammers and so that only leaves us and the Barcodes - I'm sorry Charlton, but this looks like a buyers market.
Throw into this that Bent himself has suggested that he wants to go to Spurs, and has confirmed that he will definitely be anywhere other than Charlton next year and all of a sudden £8m is looking like a very reasonable offer.
As much as I would love to see Bent at the club next year, if we pay more than £10m for him we will have been done.
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