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Fulham boss Martin Jol pledges to improve on Darren Bent’s progress
MARTIN JOL has a way of kick-starting fallen star strikers’ careers.
He did it with Luis Suarez when they were together at Ajax and the controversial South American first started biting off more than he could chew.
And he seems to have done it again with Dimitar Berbatov at Fulham after the £30million Bulgarian fell out of favour at Old Trafford.
Now the Dutchman has set his sights on helping Darren Bent to become an England World Cup contender again, after he was frozen out at Aston Villa.
Jol says: “I always look after good players and they always have a good season with me – and Darren Bent will have a good season.
“I have spoken to him and he knows what my intentions are.
“He knows we want to help him have useful games like he had against Stoke and Everton.
“Sometimes he won’t start, but my intentions are to get him back to his best.”