Christian Benteke has formed much of the transfer speculation and hype in the Premier League this summer. However, this culminated on Friday evening with the rather surprising news that talks with Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert had successfully convinced the Belgian to withdraw his transfer request and pen a new deal until 2017, which is alleged to not even include a release clause.

With so much speculation and comments surrounding his decision to hand in a transfer request in the first place, coupled by the many teams' fans who would have hoped the young striker would be donning their shirt the next season, check out how the Twitterverse reacted to the breaking news...