Nicklas Bendtner is the 22 year old Danish striker who plays for Arsenal, if you didn't already know. The young player has boasted of his plans for the future in interviews such as this one with The Guardian back in October.
"Within five years I want to be the top scorer in the Premier League and I want to be known as a world-class striker. And it will happen. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen. I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done."
An outsider who knows nothing of football would agree that the person who made this statement is just a little full of themselves. If I was a footballer, a reasonably good footballer, I would never make such a bold statement, you would look stupid if you never did become 'a world-class striker.' In 117 appearances for Arsenal since his move from FC Copenhagen Bendtner has scored 33 goals in all competitions. Hardly the tally of a world class striker.
To be fair in his first season he hardly played but since then he's started playing more and scoring a few goals. He has been injured, having a hernia operation late last year and since making a return in 2010 he has made an impact. His three goals in the Champions League clash against Porto sent the side through to the Champions League Quarter Finals and he won Danish Player of the Year for his goals which helped Denmark qualify for the World Cup 2010.
Nicklas Bendtner is an average striker, he has his good days and his bad. I don't think he'll ever be a world class striker or the top striker in the Premier League but he has scored when it
counts.
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