Marcus Bent
Bent playing for Charlton Athletic, April 2006.
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcus Nathan Bent | ||
| Date of birth | 19 May 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Hammersmith, London, England | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1998 | Brentford | 70 | (8) |
| 1998–1999 | Crystal Palace | 28 | (5) |
| 1999 | Port Vale | 23 | (1) |
| 1999–2000 | Sheffield United | 48 | (20) |
| 2000–2001 | Blackburn Rovers | 37 | (8) |
| 2001–2004 | Ipswich Town | 61 | (21) |
| 2003–2004 | → Leicester City (loan) | 33 | (9) |
| 2004–2006 | Everton | 55 | (7) |
| 2006–2008 | Charlton Athletic | 46 | (4) |
| 2007–2008 | → Wigan Athletic (loan) | 31 | (7) |
| 2008–2011 | Birmingham City | 33 | (3) |
| 2009–2010 | → Middlesbrough (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2010 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Sheffield United (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Mitra Kukar | 11 | (4) |
| Total | 500 | (97) | |
| National team | |||
| 1998 | England U21 | 2 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Marcus Nathan Bent (born 19 May 1978) is an English former football striker. An England under-21 international, the journeyman striker played 574 games and scored 113 goals for fourteen different clubs. His numerous transfer fees totalled over £10 million.
He began his career at Brentford in 1995, before he signed with Crystal Palace in 1998. The next year he joined Sheffield United via Port Vale. In 2000 he transferred to Blackburn Rovers, where he got his first taste of Premier League football, before he moved on to Ipswich Town in 2001. He spent 2003–04 on loan at Leicester City, before he transferred to Everton in 2004. Two years later he was sold on to Charlton Athletic. He spent the 2007–08 season on loan at Wigan Athletic, before he moved on to Birmingham City in 2008. He spent three years with Birmingham, during which he spent time on loan at Middlesbrough, Queens Park Rangers, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and Sheffield United. After leaving the club he spent six months in Indonesia with Mitra Kukar.
Bent was born in Hammersmith, London, to parents of Jamaican origin. He graduated through the Brentford youth ranks, usually playing as a forward. He broke into the first team at Griffin Park in 1995–96 under manager David Webb, helping the "Bees" to a 15th-place finish in the Second Division. Bent was almost ever-present in a successful season that saw Brentford reach the play-offs in 1996–97 with a fourth-place finish. He played at Wembley in the play-off Final defeat to Crewe Alexandra, and was substituted after 70 minutes for Scott Canham. 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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