Profile
Marcus Bent
Professional Footballer
Male
Born
May 19, 1978
Age
35
Hometown
Hammersmith
Team
England national ...
Position
Striker
Other Names
Marcus Nathan Bent
Marcus Nathan Bent is an English football striker who plays for Indonesian club Mitra Kukar. A former England under-21 international, the journeyman striker has played for fourteen different clubs, playing over 570 games and scoring 110 goals in the process.… Read More
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Romance
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Danielle MarcusDated 2009
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Kirsty FisherFling 2007
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Joanne BeckhamFling 2003 - 2009
News + Updates
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Stone County Sheriff's Office Searching For Man After Armed AssaultNews-Leader - Sep 15, 2012
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Sergio Aguero And The All Time Leading Premier League Hat Trick Scorers Bleacher ReportGoogle News - Sep 14, 2011
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Live Saturday Football Bbc NewsGoogle News - Sep 10, 2011
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Jim'll Fixture It: £100 Paddy Power Prize The SunGoogle News - Sep 08, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Marcus Bent.
CHILDHOOD
1978
Birth
Born on May 19, 1978.
TEENAGE
An England under-21 international, he began his career at Brentford in 1995, before he signed with Crystal Palace in 1998.
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1996
18 Years Old
Bent was almost ever-present in a successful season that saw Brentford reach the play-offs in 1996–97 with a fourth place finish.
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Bent then scored five goals in 29 games in 1997–98, as the "Bees" struggled in vain to avoid relegation under Eddie May and then his replacement Micky Adams.
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TWENTIES
However he remained goalless in 15 appearances in 1998–99, as Palace struggled under new boss Terry Venables.
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He became the "Blades" top scorer in 1999–2000 with 15 league goals in 32 appearances, including a hat-trick past West Bromwich Albion in a 6–0 thrashing at Bramall Lane on 19 February.
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He began the 2000–01 campaign in fine form, hitting a hat-trick past Lincoln City in a 6–1 win in the League Cup.
He made ten goalless appearances in 2001–02, before he was sold on to Ipswich Town for £3 million in November 2001, which was Town's fourth biggest transfer fee behind team-mates Matteo Sereni, Hermann Hreiðarsson, and Finidi George.
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Unable to afford his £17,000-per-week contract, in June 2004, Ipswich sold Bent to Everton for a fee of £450,000; "Toffees" manager David Moyes said that "he's got athleticism, he's quick, good in the air".
2005
27 Years Old
Despite having helped the club to secure a place in the Champions League, Bent became a more peripheral figure in 2005–06, having lost his first team place to James Beattie.
In January 2006, it was announced that Bent had signed for Charlton Athletic in a deal worth £2.3 million.
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THIRTIES
Bent signed a three-year deal for Birmingham City in July 2008 for a fee in excess of £1 million, after rejecting the opportunity to join Cardiff City.
Instead, he became Gordon Strachan's first signing for Middlesbrough when he joined on a two-month loan deal on 30 October 2009, later extended to 16 January 2010.
Still out of the first team plans at St Andrew's, he again moved on loan in August 2010, as he joined Mick McCarthy's Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers until 4 January 2011.
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