Former striker Darren Bent explains why he turned down West Ham to sign for Spurs, Bent told TV presenter and West Ham fan Ben Shephard on Sky Sports’ Goals on Sunday programme about his decision to reject the Hammers.
“I remember I was torn at the time because I was going to West Ham funnily enough.
“I’d been to meet [then West Ham manager] Alan Curbishley, come back from holiday, obviously I knew Alan Curbishley really well, he had taken me from Ipswich to Charlton. But obviously, I ended up going to Spurs because obviously, I felt Spurs were going in the right direction, they finished fifth.I was competing with some top strikers there in [Dimitar] Berbatov, [Jermain] Defoe and [Robbie] Keane.”
Shephard then intervened and said: “Arsenal fan as a kid so was there any sort of split there?”
“Yeah I was an Arsenal fan but it’s about career and playing for a massive football club. At the end the decision was pretty easy to be fair.