"If you ask me if I am one of the better scorers in the world, I would reply 'Yes', because I believe it", were the exact words of 28 year-old Wolfsburg and Danish striker Nicolas Bendtner when trying to express how good he was.


There are confirmed reports that Wolfsburg have exempted him from training with the first team, thereby forcing him to train alone. Bendtner was a free transfer signing from Arsenal in 2014 and has scored four goals in 19 games in all competitions for Wolfsburg this season.

While trying to analyse where it all went wrong for the forward, it is worthy of note that Bendtner has been fined several times by Wolfsburg for coming late for training and also posting a Mercedes Photo on social media which was contrary to the rules in Wolfsburg as Volkswagen was the team's sponsor. In his two years in the club , Lord Bendtner as he is fondly called by fans scored a mere three Bundesliga goals in 31 games .

Bendtner was a talented forward in Arsenal who always scored odd important goals during his grooming years in North London. The first sign of his stubbornness was when he was pictured sagging in a London club just within hours of Arsenal's elimination in the semi-finals of the 2009 Champions League by Manchester United, a game he played. Two years later, while on international duty with Denmark in a group stage game against Portugal, he pulled down his shorts to reveal his Paddy Power branded underwear after scoring an equaliser. He was later fined £80,000 by UEFA. Again in 2013, after signing a new £52,000 a week deal in Arsenal, he changed his squad number from 26 to 52 to reflect his payrise, a rumour he still denies till date.

Bendtner played on loan in both Birmingham and Sunderland, but it was in Juventus in the 2012-2013 season that made a mockery of his ability as he played only 10 games all season (three starts) without scoring any goal which prompted the Old Lady not to make his move permanent.

On loan in Sunderland, Bendtner was arrested for going on a £40,000 car-wrecking spree with then team mate Lee Cattemole , a charge that was later dropped. Also his private life is not an exemption as he split from a romantic relationship with finance (Caroline Luel 'Fleming' Brockdorff , 41 years-old now ) and former wife of Ian Fleming's niece ( creator of James Bond), Rory Fleming . Caroline Luel is worth $400m which is attributed to the money she earned after splitting from Rory who is a millionaire banker. Bendtner and Caroline split just seven weeks after the birth of Bendtner's first child, as Caroline already had two children from her last marriage to Rory.

Things got worse for Bendtner when he was banned for three years and fined €100,000 for being over the legal drink-drive limit in Copahagen.

At 28, it seems that the end is near for the once promising youngster. It also seems only a matter of time before his contract in Wolfsburg is terminated. But like others before him, Nicolas Bendtner will always be remembered as one who never fulfilled his potential .

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