Bendtner; The Leg-end

[glenngould]

No point laying in to Bendter. Every fan could see he wasn't up to it years and years ago. Who picks him? Who picked Denilson for about 4 years? Who's going to pick Walcott until 2025?

[QuartzGooner]

Who's going to pick Walcott until 2025?

21 goals last season.

[glenngould]

Well we'll see if walcott wins any silverware as a professional footballer. I think it's unlikely, put it that way. And if he does he'll have been on the bench or injured as he has been this so far this season. He's a nonentity at a club as massive as ours.

[SteveO 35]

Well we'll see if walcott wins any silverware as a professional footballer. I think it's unlikely, put it that way. And if he does he'll have been on the bench or injured as he has been this so far this season. He's a nonentity at a club as massive as ours.

It rather depends on whether he stays here managed by Wenger. One of the world's finest strikers (yep the bloke who decided a hard fought top of the league clash today) didn't win much under him either - 1 FA Cup in 8 years - before picking up a PL medal in his first season at United

Ozil won't win anything here either so lucky for him he has medals to his name already

[safcftm]

He's big he's bad he's Nicky B
The hardest man in the arsenal team
With samurai hair beware,
Come and have a go if you dare

[SteveO 35]

He's big he's bad he's Nicky B
The hardest man in the arsenal team
With samurai hair beware,
Come and have a go if you dare

You won and we lost so we'll forgive your jovial mood.......but your mate from Denmark is one of the biggest wankers to ever stretch the shirt

[1989]

He's big he's bad he's Nicky B
The hardest man in the arsenal team
With samurai hair beware,
Come and have a go if you dare

Bollocks mate, Bendtner is fucking pony and you're welcome to him any time.

[SurreyGooner]

"So fuck off Nicky B,
He plays like a donkey,
He goes eeeee-ore
He goes eeeee-ore"

[REB]

my heart sank when I saw him come on yesterday

[SteveO 35]

my heart sank when I saw him come on yesterday

The subs bench sank slightly when he sat on it too

[DB10GOONER]

my heart sank when I saw him come on yesterday

The subs bench sank slightly when he sat on it too

Quality.

[Bradywasking]

Reporter on Sky News is an arsenal fan..this morning she said her son maned " we have no chance now " when super Nic came on..it's unbelievable that he is still earning money fro football..

[Den10kamp]

this guy is unbeleivable 52k a week for a wannabe absolute shytehawk sideways pagan footballer

that chance he had right at the end sums him up!

bringing on bendtner as your plan b striker against fucking, man u fucking united, may as well be a man down

he brings nothing to the table infact he's detrimental to our squad.

he needs to take his shitness elsewhere and mind numbingly run around pitches in the danish conference league for 90 mins whilst still learning to trap a ball and get on the end of it....

I thanked him for his header against spurs but he has been played fucking millions since then so i do not feel sorry for him one bit ....


he's not a *word censored* though and i would stop short of calling our own player that during a game

[Den10kamp]

It's time to stand up . For six years, Denmark's most målfarlige and controversial striker refused to comment on anything other than formalities. But now he tells about his scandals , his son and his faltering career in an exclusive interview with Berlingske .


"Sometimes silence the best weapon . I have intentionally omitted to participate in interviews over the past six months. I have not told you what I feel. There was a little quiet on . It was written so much about me. Some of it is unfortunately true , but half of it is outright lie . "

"But when people before the Italy match claimed that I suddenly could not play football anymore - when all of a sudden my personality and my talent that is under attack - that it was too low. I read every day in the newspapers that I was lethargic during training and not even bother to hit the target . We play on Saturday, and then you get to see , I thought. '

"But not touch me . It can not . Even the smallest bone in my body moved when I read what you have written, and heard what I have said about me. And believe me . I've heard sooo much bullshit. "



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Nicklas Bendtner puts an emphasis on the last word , so an otherwise exhausted phrase gets an aggressive finale. That's the sound of an ice-cold attack on the defensive . During the hour-long interview , he has so far devoid dimples constant, but in this moment embracing the seriousness his face. He talks about ' witch hunt ', which he has dubbed the months before , during and after the spring of 2013. Note that 2 March this year was night when he was stopped by police - running against traffic on Gammel Strand , with an expired driver's license in English scrotum and a BAC of 1.74 in the blood. But although the judgment - withdrawal of driving law in Denmark for three years and a fine of 842,000 dollars - was the culmination of the darkest time in the national team attacker's life, gnaws the other fairy stories that appeared in the press him just as much.



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Some had seen him throw a beer glass on a taxi. Others had seen him pour a drink at the head of a woman at a bar . Was not there also something that he killed a young man in the head at a hotel in Elsinore during a soccer collection? Seasoned with anonymous eyewitness accounts ended all the stories in the morning papers . But none of them led to appeals from the police. He shakes his head while he chants the headlines up .

"There were so many lies in the stories . And there are many journalists, I will never talk to again . But I will not deny that it was a crazy time for me. There was so much in my life, and much of it was negative. "




I will not deny that it was a crazy time for me. There was so much in my life, and much of it was negative.


"But I have my family, my friends and my boyfriend . Their support for me wavers not - not a second - no matter what the tabloid press writes . What I lose, all the people who do not know me and believe that I'm this bad boy , this bad boy Bendtner . But believe me : No matter how the media twist and turn the truth , then I'm all just Nicklas . And I will always be Nicklas . '



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Stop. The interview should

not start with the end . We have two hours earlier. Past the moments when he talks about his son, he rarely gets to see . Past the second when he states that men should never cry. Rapidly the passages about his mother's cancer , laziness at school, his hatred of reality television and his love for the sounds of Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones .

We start at the beginning of Bendtner's first personal media appearance in six years. The photographer and I meet with the 195 centimeters tall football player on the golf - resort Grove Club in Watford north of London.

He is running ten minutes from his home in his silver-gray , potent Mercedes coupe. He has deliberately chosen the least flashy car in his garage , for he had started his Porsche or Ferrari red , there would be too much attention to the vehicle. And he's tired of always being asked for his cars , he explains friendly.




I can not walk around and behave in a way so that all Danes are satisfied . I have to be ME!


He bows and showing his dimples for the first time . His handshake is far from hard.

"I 've been looking forward to the interview , " he said.

We put ourselves into a sofa. The recorder is turned on, the interview starts .

"Right now I feel really very good, although there were incredibly much hubbub about what club transfer that did not materialize in the summer ," he starts .



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Last season was Bendtner leased from Arsenal to the iconic Italian club Juventus . But the stay in Turin, otherwise started well with plenty of playing time was short inside the football year thwarted by an injury , and the Dane was just nine games total in the striped sweater .

In summer, when the lease was over, negotiated Bendtner with a number of clubs - both in England and Germany, when he was unwanted at Arsenal , where he would have been under contract since the age of 16 .

"I had all my place - there were three clubs that are just waiting for me to say yes to one of them , " he said.

But on the day when the transfer window closed , he was called up by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger . The Frenchman noted dryly that Bendtner nowhere to , the club could not find a replacement for him.

"It was not the mindset I had. I was incredibly disappointed when he called because I was ready to move on . And I actually did not think that they wanted to keep me . "

The day after he had to move his training clothes from reserves locker room and into the first team . A place he had stayed for two years because of its rental stay in Sunderland and Juventus . Right up to Wenger's call 1 September he had only trained for themselves.



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"When I had been at the club since I was 16 , I found it totally ridiculous that they had placed me in the reserves and let me train itself. Suddenly everything was back to normal : I trained with the first team , I hung out with the first team , I had a dietician again . From being completely out to be quite the back , "explains Bendtner .

He mustered all his professionalism for not wearing visible grudge against the club management .

"Behold , I have to just crack on . If I had to go and be angry that they had not treated me well enough , I'd just put myself further back in the first team squad this sæon , "said Bendtner and regrets all the English words he throws into his sentences . He has lived in England for nine years , he mentions .

Nicklas felt no nervousness during the first training session back at the club for his friendships in the squad was still intact . And he had the energy to respond to his teammates' jokes about his unexpected resurrection with his usual smile.




But I have my family , my friends and my boyfriend . Their support for me wavers not - not a second - no matter what the tabloid press writes .


' Friendship and respect wise , I was even in my time on the reserve team on equal footing with everyone else. They know my personality. I believe in justice and speak my mind no matter what. So it was easy for them to correct to me. '

Football -wise it's something else . When you have been completely out strolling not just into the starting line-up again . Bendtner were both in September and is writing one of the outer seats in the first team .

"I have to fight twice as hard during every game and also score for all to have a chance to start in next time. Which in itself is hard when I have hardly played a year due to injury and have not had a warm- season along with the others on the team. "

So far, he started in two League Cup matches and has also got a few minutes here and there in the Premier League and Champions League. This interview takes place the day after he started inside against Chelsea . He accomplished nothing målfarligt during the 66 minutes. However, had the whole Arsenal team a rotten day . It affected him " not the slightest ," the club's more feisty fans sent boos and profanity toward him throughout the game. For resistance is not a new thing . He has read hateful messages from hundreds of fans in recent months on the social media .

"I am not sorry that stuff. How is it to be a footballer. But I need to keep me strong, for I begin to listen or even believe in them , I can quickly force myself into a black hole. "

" Right now I'm the easy prey to them because I want to get away from the club , and Arsenal do not want to keep me . And these haters - they always choose the easy option . Basically, it is unfair to pork me when I had my club transfer in place in the summer and Wenger told me to be . '





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The criticism against Nicklas

Bendtner comes not only from the British. He is often accused of Danish football fans not to manage its talent seriously enough. It drops many of the chest when he spends time building his own jewelry company up to upload pictures to social media and to go into town instead of ' focus on football '.

As outrage when he pulled up in his Paddy Power underpants in a sponsorship stunt by an EM -scoring in the summer of 2012.

"I can not walk around and behave in a way so that all Danes are satisfied . Well, I smoke cigars occasionally. If I feel like it , it's what I do . I do not care , many do not think that a footballer can afford it . Think about it : Back in time smoke all players. There was not a problem . All of a sudden , some mechanisms changed and footballers should be these faceless paragons . To this I say once and for all : Gu should I not. I have to be ME . And if someone has a sore ass that I am red wine collector or drive expensive cars , then it's their problem. It can never be my problem. "

" At the same time I try not to hide who I am . I'm uploading pictures of what I'm doing on Instagram and Twitter. So, the people who are genuinely interested in me being a part of my success or my non- success. "




I really thought that Juventus would be the start of something beautiful , and the club's management talked after only a few weeks to sign a contract with me in the winter break . But then came the injury.


He takes a deep breath and stresses so that football still comes before his interests loads and sidebeskæftigelser .

"What people do not know is this: I had my most serious period ever at the start of last season. I trained hard and I did not drink even a glass of wine with your meal . I really thought that Juventus would be the start of something beautiful , and the club's management talked after only a few weeks to sign a contract with me in the winter break , " says Nicklas Bendtner .

"But then came the injury. And when I finally was ready again late in the season , we had won the championship . Then the fun ball and parties in it, "he says and stresses that he is now again in a good phase .

"I coach a lot more seriously today than I ever did at Arsenal . For I am going to build me up, so I will be this powerful machine, the perfect item sale . I will start as strong as possible in my next club , "he said , adding that he is open to clubs throughout Europe and that only a miracle will keep him in the London club .

Previously, he was always at home from training at 13 Now the bell is often 16

In summer thought football experts and fans that national player should compromise on its high wages at Arsenal , so it was possible for smaller clubs to sign him . That it would benefit both him , the national team and thus the Danes.

"I came in all that. I always think it's funny to hear people's opinions as to what I should and should not . But I had everything in place with three different clubs. That is the truth . There are so many stupid comments from people who know nothing about the mechanisms of modern football , "said striker and will focus on Danish 'expectations .

"I love playing for the national team . I have said many times , and you can see my performance , because I always deliver on the pitch . But I should owe all of Denmark anything because I have a talent ? It is all too much pressure to put more than one person. '




Suddenly everything was back to normal : I trained with the first team , I hung out with the first team , I had a dietician again .


He shakes his head and explains: ' Listen , how absurd it sounds : " YOU must make the choices that WE want YOU to take in YOUR life." I could never dream of adding . I make the choices I want in my life. I will do the rest of my life. I will never listen to anyone who says that I should do something for the winner at it. The few people I trust , come for advice. No one else . '




Photo : Soren Bidstrup

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Two of the subjects

Nicklas Bendtner's inner circle are his parents.

"In my family we are very close , and when I was younger , we shared everything. In essence my mother was my best friend and my dad my best friend. '

But one and a half years ago when Nicklas was visiting his childhood home in Tarnby , conveyed parents him a breaking news . His mother had breast cancer.

"The idea that my mother could die , I was not ready to have . I sat in that moment , thinking about how life would be without her. It would not be a good place to be. '




The idea that my mother could die , I was not ready to have . I sat in that moment , thinking about how life would be without her.


"To my mother's credit , she was just so cool. Much tougher than I had imagined . It made it easier for me to manage the disease . Instead of being a victim , she took everything as it came . A true fighter. It makes me proud . "

After chemotherapy and two operations came the opposite news: The mother was healed. And it was the event that should be celebrated 2 March this year - the night for Nicklas ended with both mental and physical hangover on a police station. He is ashamed that it was ' the famous son ', which itself took all the attention on what should have been his mother's biggest party .

"It was completely irresponsible of me to run with too high of a BAC . Secondly, there is to say about it . And the foolish was that my friend and I only had 100 yards down the road. But I was so pleased and happy on my mother's behalf , that I felt invincible at the moment - beyond everything. '

The mother's illness was not the only thing that is far from optimal drove the last year. Besides the damage from Juventus and the club uncertainty , through he lived several things on a personal level . Some of them should not be in this article , he stresses. But the worst thing was and is missed by his almost year-old son , Nicholas , as he does not see that often.

Praying Nicklas to describe his son is like turning on the power outlet on Christmas Eve and see the tree light up : " Actually he reminds in many parts of myself . For example, yelling and screaming he when he does not get his way. Maybe I will not in the literal sense anymore, but the mentality I still have . Completely blond hair , blue eyes. Really cute boy , really charming. Huge sporty already . And he has the audacity to metered - run it to the limit and charms so out of the whole situation. Really, really nice boy . All I can say , " recounts Nicklas .

That name is so close to his own was a compromise that he and ex-girlfriend Caroline Fleming concluded . She wanted to have baptized him Nicklas Jr. Nicklas admits he was 20, she was not ready to become a father . But put immediately the rhetorical question , if you ever - regardless of age - can know what you are getting into ? On the other hand , it is quite normal in football to have children early , says the young man from Amager. The sport is training in his teens , while the 20 -year-old probably is permanent in the first team and ready for adulthood.




It hurts every time I have with him. Also at him. I can see it in the way he looks at me when we wave goodbye .


"I just had to step up . Fortunately, Caroline had two children already, as I had come to know well and was with every day. The experience I drew on . "

"To change a diaper , I was never a big fan of - of course I have done it a few times and probably more - but it was never my strong point . It was in turn play and to get him to sleep naps . I sleep even for dinner, so it was great to be with her ​​own child at the chest . The moments I am already with my next child . "





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An extension of

siblings are , however, some years in the future for him and the current girlfriend , actress Julie Zangenberg . They are in no hurry , he said. But the battle to be allowed to have Nicholas for several hours going on right now .

" The time I have with him is the time I first priority in my life . Now I live well in London at him , and after training , I could actually see him every day. "

According to Nicklas Bendtner he has the right to have his son every other weekend and one day during the week . It also happens usually injects him . But Caroline Fleming , according footballer yet allowed Nicholas to stay with his father since the couple's wedding about two years ago. "It makes me sad, because I'm ready , and that he is ready . There is nothing that stands in the way of it - nothing out of Caroline . '

" We do not agree on the division right now. Whether we ever will be, time will tell. '

When father and son are together , they go to the park and play football or run around at home, so Nicholas can get used some of his energy . Swing tours that gets son to great laugh and father to become dizzy , is mandatory . They eat dinners , watching the cars go on shopping. Nicklas enjoy buying lots of designer clothes and shoes for her two-year .

"It is cozy. But I would love to take a bath with him and snuggle him. I already done it earlier . Put him to sleep and read a bedtime story to him. I do not mind getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning if it's time . If I could determine was he always sleeping in bed with me. '

"I hope that Caroline and I get to the point where we can share more about him. I was only 20 years old when we got together , and people have often told me that I thought I was wiser and older than I really was. It is certainly true. But it is true no matter how old you are . There is always something to learn through life. "





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He pauses and thinks about how it feels when he and Nicholas goodbye after their brief encounter .

"It hurts every time I have with him. Also at him. I can see it in the way he looks at me when we wave goodbye . '

Bilingual Nicholas has just learned three life-affirming words , says the proud father. But he says them often. Two weeks ago - during the farewell hint no - said her son suddenly . ' I love you '. A moment later something happened rarely . A tear ran down Nicklas Bendtner's cheek.

"I am very reluctant to admit , because I never cries . But being a father gives me something I do not get elsewhere . I actually do not think that men should cry at all. One can show emotion - but from there to cry is so long. '

On one other occasion in his life let Nicklas However, emotions take over.

' The birth ! It was violently . I did not really think I would cry, but I could not control it. It was as if I was crying without being conscious of it. I could not feel them all happy tears . The heat -filled body. Indescribable. "

The heat exploded also in the body of Bendtner for exactly one month ago when he twice rose into the air in the national team jersey at the park and headed balls behind Italy goalkeeper , Gianluigi Buffon . Suddenly Bendtner again the hero after a year devoid of personal success . Had it not been for an Italian equalization in overtime , lived hope of World Cup qualifiers still .




I have to fight twice as hard during every game and also score for all to have a chance to start in next time.


» 2-1 target smashed it all , you know . The following ten seconds felt as if we had 40,000 people gathered in one big bubble. All of us players , coaches , fans ... I wish the time came to a halt , but it went far too quickly. I threw the shirt , for it I just had to . While I cheered , I thought not at all about revenge , it roamed the Hovet not my thinking that now they keep their mouth shut . "

What man Nicklas Bendtner and football icon thought was this: " WHERE IS IT GOOD TO BE BACK ," he said and threw out his arms as if he were back on the pitch in the park .

"In the second , I experienced a moment of happiness, " he added , keeping one for him rare speech pause: "Yes, it must be almost self-explanatory . I experienced a moment of happiness

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Looks like he's trying to impersonate bono

And just as deluded

We should have DB translate this piece first before passing judgement