STOKE have confirmed they are in talks with Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner’s agent/dad over a move for the Dane.
This is a player, who in 2009 said: “I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world.”
A great sigining for Stoke then – but with the greatest of respect, perhaps not the move Nicklas was dreaming of a few years back…
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Arsenal set to spend big on striker
ARSENE Wenger looks set to break his big spending transfer duck by splashing the cash on Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.
After another potless season and rumours of an exodus of top players from Arsenal – led by wantaways Gael Clichy and Nicklas Bendtner – Wenger has hinted he may finally dip into his transfer war chest.
Speaking about the possibility of landing £35m-rated Benzema, he said: “Signing him does not seem impossible. He’s a player that I like.
“He’s intelligent in his movement, he is capable of combining well with others and making a difference, and of doing individual moves as well.
“So, for me, he’s a player who’s at the top level in the world.”
Everton to replace entire strike force
MISFIRING Everton are looking to borrow a new strike force to replace current frontmen Yakubu and Louis Saha.
So far this season, midfielders Tim Cahill, Mikel Arteta and Seamus Coleman and even defender Leighton Baines sit ahead of the strikers in the scoring charts.
And with club top scorer, midfielder Cahill, heading on an Asian Games jolly with Australia, boss David Moyes is eyeing a couple of loan transfers in and out of the club – with Arsenal’s Nicklas Bendtner and Carlos Vela and Manchester City’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Roque Santa Cruz all Goodison targets.
Should any of the deals come off, it is expected that Saha could make a move back to his native France, with Portugal’s Benfica rumoured to fancy Nigerian hitman Yakubu.
God I love the January transfer window, don’t you?
Goaltastic 