Aston Villa should bring back Christian Benteke says Darren Bent
Aston Villa should attempt to re-sign Christian Benteke in January to help their fight against relegation from the Premier League, claims former Villa star Darren Bent. Bent claims Benteke is still loved by Villa supporters following his spell at the club earlier in his career. Villa currently find themselves 17th in the table, level on points with 18th-placed Southampton.
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“Now, they’re going to find themselves in January in the same position.
“Now, we spoke about [Aleksandar] Mitrovic but also another one as well, and I was speaking to a couple of Aston Villa fans this morning at my academy game, and they were saying about bringing Benteke back, just because of how much they loved him.
“To be fair, that’s half the battle.
“If you can go somewhere and you’ve already got the fans on side, which they already will do because they idolised him, they loved him, then maybe they can kind of get that form back out of him.
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