ALAN PARDEW has warned any clubs wanting to buy Darren Bent at the end of the season that they will have to pay an Andriy Shevchenko-type fee. The Ukrainian joined Chelsea for £30million last summer and Pardew believes Bent, seven years younger than Sheva and with a proven Premiership pedigree, has the potential to be every bit as good.He said: "It's nothing to do with Darren. If he is sold it will be determined by market forces. "The market forces are determined by the price Shevchenko has gone for, and the new contracts that players like Didier Drogba have signed. There is big money in the game and big figures are going to get accepted.
"We have a prize asset and the prize asset in terms of Darren is a striker with a guarantee of Premiership goals, and a team player. "Forget about anything else because there are a lot of Premiership strikers who are not team players. No one concentrates more on the team than myself and that is why Darren will have the armband on Saturday."
But Bent is yet to win over new England coach Steve McClaren. The Charlton striker is disappointed he and Jermain Defoe struggle to get a look-in. He said: "It upsets me because after a while you start thinking to yourself: 'What more do I have to do?'
"I have known Jermain since we were kids and he has been knocking in goals for years. He still knocks in around 15 or 16 a season yet he doesn't get considered either and I just don't understand it."
