terrytini Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Going to a club like Spurs or Liverpool would be silly for Benteke and here's why. If he wants to win the league, he won't. If he wants to play in the Champions League regularly, he won't.... The bigger concern is then where does he go next? If he went to either of those clubs for the price we want then the market for his services becomes minute because the fee would be astronomical and Spurs/Liverpool would be reluctant to sell to anyone else in England. Imagine if we sell him for £30 million, his next club would want at least £40 million and that doesn't happen very often. It's not that Benteke is too good for those teams because we think they are shit. It's that they are the next level up from us whilst Benteke should be considering going 2 levels up to consistent champions league and title challenging teams, even if he has to assume the role as a rotational squad member. Going to Liverpool or Spurs is selling himself short IMO. Honestly, this is nonsense. I know "we don't like" Liverpool, but they harbour incredibly realistic aspirations of qualifying for the Champions League in general. Further, they actually do have the ability to challenge for a title. I know, I know - not a popular opinion here nor one that people seem to accept. They finished **** 2nd last season (2 points off top!) and if not for Gerrard's slip may well have won the league. This season they're 5th, 4 points off CL football despite having lost Luis Suarez and also having had Daniel Sturridge injured for the majority of the season. You add Benteke and a fit Sturridge to their side this season and they're easily, easily top 4. I know we've had league victories over them and recently beaten them in the F.A. Cup semi-final, but it's ludicrous thinking they're only a small step up from us. Hopefully Benteke stays at Villa forever. He's a very good striker. Just don't be surprised if, should he move, he goes to a team like Liverpool. Honestly, this is nonsense. They harbour largely unrealistic ambitions of qualifying for, let alone getting through the groups of, the CL. There are four teams who will almost always qualify ahead of them, and they are further away from regularly getting the better of them than we are from getting near the 6 the place Liverpool have averaged before last year. I can't stand anything about Liverpool, but that has nothing to do with the fact that despite what Liverpool think they are in the pack behind the top clubs, not one of them. In my view Benteke only needs to show that he can keep it up and he'd walk into one of those four. His goals to games ratio, playing for a club that was creating very little, together with his on the ball ability, power,heading ability, and genuine goalscorers knack, set apart - if he maintains it - from the majority of strikers currently likely to be going anywhere. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted May 5, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2015 I don't think a club like Liverpool will or could pay what it takes to get Benteke with 2 years left on his contract. Another 6 months with his form at this type of level and he will be the top scorer in the premier league. Liverpool are in decline yet again, squad seems to be ageing and missing what it takes, Rodgers looks vulnerable. Man U are his next team, unless the other two pile in with major cash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Best striker in the Premier League? No. Yes. Yes from me as well, fabulous player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnStortford Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 20m would be an insulting offer from Liverpool.. they paid that for bloody Markovic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Arsenal would be the ideal, hopefully for 30+ million. An we all secretly know if Benteke went, Sherwood would slot Adebayor in his place asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 In my opinion only Aguero is better in the PL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 We should demand £40M minimum, because we can honestly get that. Would be awful business to go any lower than £35m with 2 years left. Hoping we can offer him between 80-100k p/w which reflects his worth and ability and he gives us another year going into the Euros. Gonna be a sad day when he leaves though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 When you look at the fees paid for soldado, laukaku and bony the past few years, we'd be stupid to accept anything under £30 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Lukaku went for £28m last year, Benteke is a lot better than him in my opinion. £40m for me, I'd rather sell abroad, but would prefer to keep him most of all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREAT_BEARD_OF_ZEUS Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I'd be using Bony as an example as to why he should stay another year, such a shame to see talent like that rot away on City's bench. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Strikers like Aguero and Diego Costa have shown that they are top, top class strikers. Next in line is Benteke. He really is that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Bony at £30million eh, not money well spent really was it. I mean he's a good player but not really delivered on the price tag (yet), could Benteke if it was he making that move? Anyhow, the bidding for Benteke must surely start at £35 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 He's had a bad injury tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-Copenhagen Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 We should offer him at least 100k - we have to pay wages like that to the top players and in this case it isn't a gamble at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 We should offer him at least 100k That's not exactly great negotiating is it? Offer him 75k (approximately a 50% raise AFAIK) and see where the conversation goes from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 It's only worth offering him bigger money if we're going to have the players to keep feeding him the ball. As we saw way to often earlier in the season, Benteke without any service is about as much use as Emile Heskey. But, if we keep playing to his strengths and can improve the players around him, then we should definitely offer him more money in order to keep him at Villa and build a team around him capable of challenging the top 6 or, maybe even higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Benteke without any service is about as much use as Emile Heskey. Yep - exactly the same... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted May 6, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted May 6, 2015 Also, that goal against Crystal Palace should be included above... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Goal at home to Chelsea where he ran from the halfway line, did Cahill and passed it past Cech should be in there too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I think 5 clips would have been overkill but then they'd only serve to reinforce how silly the comment was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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