Nicklas Bendtner
Bizarrely enough, Nicklas Bendtner is still an Arsenal player after the club have spent the last three summers trying to get rid of him. Once thought of as one of the best youngsters coming through at the club, Bendtner has not shown the ability to provide the goods on a regular basis at the top level, often looking off the pace and unreliable in front of goal in his time at the club, as well as in failed loan spells with Sunderland and Juventus – the latter in which he failed to register a single strike at all.
With several clubs in England, Germany and Russia supposedly interested in the Danish international this summer, it seemed certain that this would surely be the year Bendtner left the Emirates Stadium for pastures new. However, in the end he failed to reach an agreement with any interested party and now looks like being the club’s only recognised backup striker for Olivier Giroud, with Park, as already explained, clearly not up to task, and youngster Yaya Sanogo looking very raw and inexperienced at this level. Perhaps there’s still a fairytale waiting to happen for the 25-year-old, but it seems unlikely given what we’ve seen so far, as well as his well-noted attitude problems off the pitch as well as on it. Hopefully for Arsenal fans, there will be another opportunity to get rid of him when the transfer window re-opens in January.