He was playing on the wing in a 4-4-2 when he arrived here. Now he's playing on the wing in a 4-3-3. If anything, he should be more effective now.

You can perhaps blame Wenger for not motivating him enough to give 100%, but you can't blame Wenger for his worse-than-Bendtner first touch, his running into players, his pathetic inability to make one-yard passes and his new found ability to mess up an assist when you have half the pitch glaring at you.

The maddening thing is that he will still make the odd killer pass or dribble that will lead to a clear chance. It is ridiculous that he can pull this out when most of the time he's struggling with the basics that even a one-legged cripple would find simple.

And no, he should never play centrally; he'd be an absolute liability there.