Darren Bent
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378 appearances
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first heard Dec 2019
last heard 4 Jul
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And George Burley was one of the managers that he always used to say, his motto was, if you're good enough, you're old enough.
And he didn't care.
I mean, there was quite a few of my youth team that were 16, 17, that he'd have training with the first team on a regular basis.
And obviously, when I was scoring goals consistently in the reserves and the youth team,
It was like he couldn't wait to get me in that first team.
But obviously at the time we had people like David Johnson, Marcus Stewart, who was an unbelievable striker, scored a lot of goals in the Premier League, Alan Armstrong.
But I always got the feeling when I'd work with Jules, like after training I'd go out and do my extras, he'd come and work with me.
And I'm a youngster and you've got the first team manager coming out and crossing balls in fear.
I mean, that's massive for me.
So he was one of them that was always like, I always felt that he couldn't wait to get me in the first team.
And obviously once I got in the first team, unfortunately he didn't really last long after that because he ended up getting the sack after that.
I mean, Alan Kerberosley and George Bailey, to be fair, they were two guys that were on the training pitch a lot, doing a lot of sessions.
But then I've obviously had managers like Harry, people like that, that didn't really take too many sessions.
But then the one, obviously, that springs to mind is Steve McLaren.
Now, obviously, he gets a lot of, obviously, I think, unfair criticism, I believe, from his time at England.
But he was one of them.
He was an unbelievable coach and a very, very good manager.
He could do the both.
He could put on brilliant sessions that were going to make me a better player, but also, as well, he could put on sessions for everybody that, as a team, were going to make us better.
And I think...
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