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發表於 2005-8-13 13:11:41
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Wenger: Bentley can go
by Editor :: 2005-08-12, 17:04
Following David Bentley's transfer request, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that he is prepared to sell the forward.
Wenger told his club's official website: "It is the risk of giving a player out on loan in the Premiership. When he comes back he has had a taste for it. He thinks 'I will not be able to get the number of games I got last year'. Then he becomes impatient and nervous about the situation.
"I understand it because David plays basically on the flanks or as a second striker for us. On the flanks we have Reyes, Hleb, Pires and Ljungberg. Up front we have Reyes, Henry, Bergkamp, Van Persie and Quincy. When you want to put players in you realise we have a big squad. It is a young squad but a big squad. So I am prepared to let him go.
"It was the same situation with Matthew Upson and Jermaine Pennant. The requested level is not to be a good player, it is to be a world-class player because you have a world-class player in front of you. It is competition.
"Is he in front of Reyes, Pires, Ljungberg, Hleb? In my opinion no but if I am wrong I am completely happy.
"I feel the fact that I am honest goes against me [in these situations]. I can say 'you are staying because you are a home-grown player, English and the whole media will be against me if I let another home-grown player go'.
"But it is about David Bentley making a career, whether it is here or somewhere else. And remember if he does make a career somewhere else then it is down to Arsenal too."
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