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If no acceptable bids come in by the start of the season, does Lambert freeze CB out altogether and let him train with the youth team ? If Helenius keeps banging them in, I'd be 100% behind the manager banishing Benteke from the team. He doesn't want to play for Villa. That should be enough to get him sat the **** down.

Christian who?

Quite right, but **** the USA anyway

When my boss refuses to take any responsibility for collective mistakes...really grinds my effing gears

What a word removed Benteke is, the summer was going swimmingly well for the first time in ages, and this ignorant word removed and his word removed agent piss all over it. **** off out of Aston Villa, you greedy word removed

Ba Humbug

Interesting how they didn't use WHIP in his stats. Considered so important now.

Plans are hot

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" I grew up reciting this in a collective monotone every day of school for 12 years...seemed perfectly normal if not boring and redundant...in retrospect, it was shamelessly unabashed indoctrination.

Benteke in Counting His Eggs Blunder He ain't going anywhere until January, when we can get even more for him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yzOitrS-h4

Nah, once we sell the riff raff, sell Beneteke, and sign 3 more players, we will be considerably stronger than we were last year. I've a feeling PL is going to pull off 1 or 2 more fantastic signings, and we'll be off and running. 10th place is realistic, and I don't think we'll ever be flirting with the drop again for a long time to come.

But can he do a Pedro?

Harvey will probably be given the start, seeing it's at Citi Field. Big honor for him.

The main forum is back to moaning and hand wringing...for a few weeks there it was almost.....pleasant.

Karma should catch up to him at some stage

Beneteke helped us avoid the unthinkable last season. How much is staying in the premier league worth? Add that figure to the transfer fee we get, and it's a genius piece of business by the club. He was always going to go, so off with him. Let him fight for his place at whatever club he thinks is big enough for him. Let him sit every third game in his rotation system. Let him fall out of form due to lack of consistent playing time. And let Villa buy a AM and a striker and close the f**king book on this whole thing.

Keep Bent, start Bent, let Benteke train with the senior team, but keep him rooted on the bench for the whole flucking year, I would be amused by that, because I'm a spiteful person

Maybe with the 30m we get for Benteke, we can buy this guy and have 20m left over for another striker

Spurs, what a joke

I hope he goes to a club that has a strict rotation policy, so that every third game, he rots on the bench, never establishing a rhythm, and letting doubt creep into his psyche, so that when he is playing, he's a shadow of the player he was with us.

Pretty sad that he didn't stay on one more year to pay back Lambert for putting him on the map. Sad that even after Lambert went ballistic with new signings, he didn't want to be part of it. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but still. It's sickening. Had he stayed on for one more year and then left, I'd not have a problem. But this is just a kick in the nuts to Villa. Total disrespect. I sincerely hope Benteke has a sH*t season wherever he goes, and his new supporters turn on him when the pressure gets to be so bad, he misses sitter after sitter, like Fernando Torres. Glad we signed Hellenius so soon, now we won't be held to ransom when we make an offer on a replacement for Benteke. Here's to hoping Lambert spends the money wisely. Thank you, Christian, for an incredible season in claret and blue. You were a joy to watch. Now you can go piss up a rope.

Chelsea