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Last updated: 17th March 2008
David Bentley: a disappointing season at Blackburn
My contract is getting negotiated at the minute but you never know what is round the corner.
David Bentley
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David Bentley stuck to his guns on Sunday morning telling Goals on Sunday that he stands by his comments about this being a disappointing season for him at Blackburn.
The England winger had told The Sun earlier in the week that failure to win a Cup and reach Europe this season would not be good enough for him or his club and he said it again to Chris Kamara and Paul Boardman.
Asked he is stood by those comments he replied: "It would be a failure with the ability we have got.
"We might no be the biggest club, we might not get the biggest attendances but each in each position on the pitch we have got some top quality individuals.
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"Sometimes you have to grind out results and if you want to be a top team, you have to all play together and probably at times this season we have played as indivisuals.
"We need to be in Europe and to be challenging in all the cup competitions and we haven't, which is disappointing."
And Bentley said that won't be the only one disappointed with Blackburn's form this season, saying his team-mates, the manangement and the club will share his feelings.
He hopes though that the club will continues to bring in more talent to help Rovers play in more big games, such as Cup finals and in Europe.
He said: "Each player is ambitious and the manager is and the chairman and the club. We have been lucky, he (Mark Hughes) has done a lot of good deals, getting a lot of good players in.
"Look at (Roque) Santa Cruz, (Christopher) Samba and some of the players we have got playing there are top individuals. You have to be playing at the top of the game. That is what you want to do, play in all the big games.
"You want to sign big players and hopefully there will be some investment in the club and bring some good players in. But the players we have got are more than capable of being a top team.
"We just have to prove that when Saturday comes. You have to put it out there and perform and sometimes we haven't done that this season.
"We are probably not going to make Europe, which is disappointing from a personal point of view and the team as well."
Contract
Although disappointed, Bentley says that he is happy at Blackburn but he didn't rule out the idea of a move away.
"My contract is getting negotiated at the minute but you never know what is round the corner, you take each day as it comes.
"I owe so much to Blackburn. They have given me a platform financially and to play every Saturday.
"Every day my life is enjoyable, every training session, all the lads are great. Socially it is brilliant, the management, everything is geared to go in one direction. And that is up."
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