Remember David Bentley? That\u2019s a name that should take you back. Back in 2008, Bentley was one of the hottest names in English football after a hot streak at Blackburn Rovers that saw him score 8 goals and tally 13 assists in 2007-2008. He was considered one of the best young footballers in England, and in the summer of \u201808 Tottenham snapped him up for what was then a fairly astronomical fee of \u00a315m.<\/p>\n
Bentley was sent out on loan for a few seasons, was released by Spurs in 2013, and eventually retired from football in 2014. Now he\u2019s back \u2014 in a video posted on his personal Instagram, Bentley announced that he was just coming out of a meeting with Roberto De Zerbi and that he\u2019s apparently been hired as Tottenham\u2019s new \u201cPositivity Coach\u201d and Player Liason.<\/p>\n
Now, I have no idea what a Positivity Coach is or does, but I imagine he\u2019s being hired to touch base with players and make sure the vibes are in the proper alignment and in cohesion with the zodiac or something. Whatever. Doesn\u2019t really matter, does it? It\u2019s good when the club brings back former players in leadership roles, and while Bentley will probably never top the list of Spurs fans\u2019 all time favorite players, he\u2019s proper COYS through and through (despite being an Arsenal academy grad).<\/p>\n
You can see in this video how excited he is to join the club in this new role and how much respect he has for Roberto De Zerbi as a manager. I\u2019m all for it! Let Old Man Bentley be a Vibes Guy for the club, sounds good to me! He can hang out with Ledley and Michael Dawson and drink beers while reminiscing about the good old days, and then put his arms around the shoulders of guys like Pape Sarr and Archie Gray. Positivity Coach? Thumbs up from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember David Bentley? That\u2019s a name that should take you back. Back in 2008, Bentley was one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,53930,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}