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Wenger hints at Bendtner exit

By on March 14, 2014

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has shone doubt upon Nicklas Bendtner’s career at the Emirates as Wenger has announced his intention to hand the Dane a heavy fine after Bendtner was involved in an incident in Copenhagen.  Bendtner allegedly threatened a taxi driver in a drunken rant on Tuesday night, when the Arsenal forward was supposed to be nearly eight hundred miles away resting in London as Arsenal faced Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

Although Wenger is yet to see Bendtner personally for the 26-year-old’s own account of the incident, the French manager gave the most telling of signs that he intends to release the former Juventus loanee, saying “He (Bentner) is at the end of his contract in the summer” in reply to a question on whether the incident will bring Bendtner’s Arsenal career to an end.

“I don’t know exactly what happened because I haven’t spoken to him yet, the only thing that is for sure is that he had nothing to do in Copenhagen,” a most angry Wenger said. “Nobody gave him any permission to go there so he will be fined for that. Has he created some problem there? I don’t know.”

This is no the first time Bendtner has been involved in a controversial incidents during his nine year career at Arsenal, in which these fines and bans have lead him to never fully reached the potential he showed he had when he was promoted to their first team when as a 17-year-old.  Bendtner has already been arrested for drunk driving over the course of his career, while also having been seen at a nightclub in late hours after a match in 2009.  Everything surrounding the Danish international’s personal life has lead some to brand him as a “psychopath”, and despite the fact that Bendtner hit out at that branding he didn’t bother to stop his poor behavior that got him the nickname.

The taxi driver in which he assaulted on Tuesday night proved that, claiming: “I’ve had drunks and alcoholics in my cab in Copenhagen over the last 25 years, but I’ve never experienced anything like this.”

These incidents have severely hurt his form and playing time for Arsenal; Bendtner has been awarded only 106 appearances for The Gunners in nearly a decade.  The forward has scored just 24 goals in those matches, leading Wenger to have sent the forward out on numerous loans over the years, to Birmingham City, Sunderland, and the latest to Juventus.  Yet the forward has earned 56 caps for Denmark, and has also scored 24 goals in those international appearances.

 

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