Arsenal: Nicklas Bendtner called Arsene Wenger a ‘w****r’ after failed transfer to Crystal Palace
The Danish striker’s deadline day move fell through in 2013 after the Gunners failed to find a replacement
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Your support makes all the difference.Nicklas Bendtner labelled Arsene Wenger an “a*****e” and a “w****r” after the former Arsenal manager blocked him from joining Crystal Palace.
The Danish striker had fallen out of favour with the manager after a string of disciplinary issues and was set for a deadline day move to Selhurst Park in 2013.
In his new autobiography Both Sides, Bendtner claimed the move was cancelled after Arsenal failed to source a replacement, even though Palace were offering “serious money”.
Bendtner, who’s now at FC Copenhagen, after spells with Wolfsburg, Nottinham Forest and Rosenborg, wrote: “[Wenger] goes straight to the case. ‘It doesn’t matter to your move,’ he says. ‘We haven’t been able to buy the striker we wanted. So now you have to be a backup. It will be your job next year. ‘
“I hang up. Looking at Tom [Brookes]” – his agent – “who shrugs. Then I call back. Saying a lot of ugly, disrespectful things. Like ‘a**hole’ and ‘w***er.’
“’We don’t like each other anymore’, I finish my snapping. ‘It will be best for everyone to part ways.’ I’m really trying to free myself.”
Bendtner admitted he was “not naive” enough to know his relationship with the manager was irreparably fractured, with the Dane going on to start just one Premier League game all season.
The striker eventually departed the following summer for an unsuccessful spell in the Bundesliga.
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