I live in the North-East and all we have heard from Bent is how wonderful the Club,Fans and Area is,saying he wanted to finish his career up here,so no matter what anyone says he is purely motivated by GREED,nothing more nothing less,anything he says about Villa and Birmingham should be taken with a pinch of salt!! You are probably right about him being an average Player,Sunderland have definitely got the best deal.
Just about as bad: Bobby Robson at Newcastle paying £8.5 million for Hugo Vianna(Who? you might ask)
Alex Ferguson: £28 million for Veron,I think that is probably the worst.
I hope you are joking Captain Kirk!!!! I would not be too surprised if Bruce and Quinn started drawing up a list when Bent first put in a transfer request, I know I would have done