Most deluded footballer?

[Bailo]

Arsenal's Nicklas Bendtner does not believe Andrei Arshavin's arrival will dislodge him as the club's top striker. The Dane said he never watched the £15m Russian in action during Euro 2008. (Daily Mirror)

 

"I'm very sorry to see Adebayor injured as we need him fit and to be playing in the league," said Bendtner. "But it does not really matter to me who is fit and available.

 

"I should start every game, I should be playing every minute of every match and always be in the team."

 

[cymrococh]

Any first team squad member who doesn't think that shouldn't be there.

 

Doesn't mean he should say it out loud though.

[Chili Palmer]

Any first team squad member who doesn't think that shouldn't be there.

 

Doesn't mean he should say it out loud though.

 

 

Totally agree, a top footballer must believe that they are good enough to play when needed. I wish Babel had a fraction of this guys confidence.

[Bailo]

I agree in principle, but do you honestly think Lucas or Yossi should be thinking "I'm better than Gerrard"?

 

Publically announcing it doesn't seem a great idea, especially when no-one in their right mind would think Bendtner is any better than an good Championship striker.

[Chili Palmer]

I agree in principle, but do you honestly think Lucas or Yossi should be thinking "I'm better than Gerrard"?

 

Publically announcing it doesn't seem a great idea, especially when no-one in their right mind would think Bendtner is any better than an good Championship striker.

 

I think they should believe that given the chance they could do what Stevie does. They would be wrong but they should have that sort of confidence.

[Flasher]

I think they should believe that given the chance they could do what Stevie does. They would be wrong but they should have that sort of confidence.

 

Amen.

[Frosty Jack]

Footballers shouldn't give interviews until they've retired.

[Cunny]

press in twisting a player's words shocker

 

http://www.football365.com/mediawatch/0,17033,8749,00.html

 

A Modern-Day Media Tale, Part One

For some reason, Nicklas Bendtner is a difficult player to like. Perhaps it's the pink boots. Perhaps it's the way he whined to the referee when he had a row with Emmanuel Adebayor last year. Perhaps it's just the suspicion that he's not as good as he thinks he is.

 

But just how good does he actually think he is? That's a question being asked a lot this week after the Arsenal striker was quoted as saying to The Daily Mirror:

 

''I should start every game, I should be playing every minute of every match and always be in the team.''

 

Strong stuff. And there was more:

 

'''I've never seen Arshavin. I did not watch Euro 2008. I've no idea what sort of player he is.'''

 

The newspaper was savage in its appraisal, branding Bendtner 'arrogant' as it mockingly headlined him declaring 'I'm Arsenal's best striker'.

 

'Bendtner is unpopular with Arsenal fans and his outburst is likely to be met with disbelief,' it added for good measure.

 

In that at least, there is no argument because, after enduring two days of ceaseless slagging on internet forums and the like, a story appeared on the Arsenal website yesterday titled 'Bendtner: I'm upset and annoyed by reports'.

 

"None of it was said like that," the player complained. "Basically I did a long interview for the Danish press recently, they asked me a lot of questions and the press over here have taken my answers and twisted them out of proportion. I was happy with the article in the Danish magazine and if you saw it you would realise that what was reported over here was not true."

 

And upon that invitation, Mediawatch popped off to the Danish press to find the interview in question, conducted by newspaper BT on February 9.

 

Although we're somewhat reliant on Babelfish's translation service, the quotes from that interview do have an uncanny resemblance to those in the Mirror. There is, though, a rather subtle difference in the quotes attributed:

 

"I still believe that when I play to my best, I will play from the start no matter who is ready or injured and each time I try to show that I should play from the start."

 

Note the similarity but also the added qualifications. It's not quite the arrogant boast as depicted in the Mirror, is it?

 

And what of the Arshavin reference? Does Bendtner really not "know what sort of player he is"? Well, if the translation service is trustworthy, then Bendtner's answer ran along the lines of: "I was not at the European Championships so I did not see him play but I have heard that he is a good player and if Arsenal are paying £12m, and other top clubs were after him, then it is because he can do something."

 

All in all, then, it would seem that a considerable fuss has been generated over some fairly reasonable quotes. Does it matter? Perhaps not. But then again, the next time the media in general complains about their lack of access to players and the absence of co-operation, perhaps they ought to wonder why footballers are so increasingly reluctant to open up.

[John am Rhein]

The real question is how the Daily Mirror get away with that

[Flasher]

The real question is how the Daily Mirror get away with that

 

 

I don't think people realise just how important your point is. The media in this country get away with murder. They lie, lie, and lie again, and f*** all happens.

 

Who's to blame? Us, the general public, because we put up with it.

 

I've often thought to myself that I'd like to pick one newspaper, you know which one, read every story from front to back every day, then go and find the real truth. Then, every day, highlight how that paper has just completely made up another pack of lies, or has mis quoted someone to make a story.

 

Imagine if thousands of people all agreed to do the same thing, every day, for the same paper. Surely this would cause huge embarrassment?

 

Or am I just feeling a bit too 'Che' this morning?

[_00_deathscar]

The media circulated incredible quotes attributed to Rafa over the last week or so, which were picked up from his interview with AS (in Spanish - translated on RAWK), which weren't anything CLOSE to the original.

 

This same quote also implied that Real Madrid play at the Nou Camp.