Darren Bent is a quality goalscorer and you could argue that he is too good and not good enough for teams like Aston Villa and Fulham.
Both our squads are insanely poor and have to battle for everything, simple fact is neither team can afford a player like him because we need our strikers to work back, win headers, run the line etc. I think he would fit into a team like Swansea, Southampton, Arsenal very well. There is a reason we paid 24m for him and that reason is still there, give him space in the box he is a pretty good finisher but we no longer have players that can give him a few chances a game and he would just be marked out of it if we stuck him up front because there is nobody else to worry about. I mean this guy still managed to bang in goals under the negative manager that was McLeish.
If we went out and signed two decent wide players and some sort of creative CM Id have no problem sticking Bent back up top. We have to learn to play football though first, quicker passing, movement, overall better players. Ruud Van Nistelrooy was the closest thing I have seen to Bent but even him in his prime would be useless for us now. Bent isn't the problem it is the players around him and how we set up. If we got a new manager in I reckon we would see Bent back next season.