Bendtner warns boss Wenger: Play me or I'll quit Arsenal
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PROBLEMS ... Arsene Wenger and Nicklas Bendtner
NICKLAS BENDTNER last night threatened to quit Arsenal unless he becomes a regular starter.
The Danish striker, who has started only two games this season after injury, said: "If the situation doesn't change and I'm still on the bench at Arsenal, I'll look for a transfer. That's obvious.
"I feel I've done everything right in getting back to fitness. "I feel better than before the injury and at that point I was in the starting 11 and close to fulfilling my potential. When I'm 100 per cent fit, I can't accept sitting on the bench.
"I'm turning 23 soon and it's important to my development and further career to play regularly.
"I'll just say that I'm 100 per cent good enough for the starting 11 in Arsenal.
"If my manager feels differently that's fair, and he's the one choosing the team, but then I disagree."
Boss Arsene Wenger has kept faith with Moroccan Marouane Chamakh, who has scored eight goals.
And the Emirates boss copied Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benitez with his own Eric Cantona "trawler" moment as he discussed Bendtner and Manuel Almunia, who is also unhappy at not starting.
While Fergie spoke about cows in fields and Benitez talked of priests on a mountain of sugar, Wenger went down a different track.
He said: "You ask me 'we are on a train, who wants to go to the terminal station and that means nobody moves out when the train is moving.'"
In other words, nobody is leaving - for the moment.